To everything: spin, spin, spin...

A "professional Westerner" takes a crack at bucking up the Dems: turns out the Tea Party didn't win that big, as the president's homestate (Hawaii, not Illinois) held blue, and liberal Colorado came through...

*chuckling* Really? That's all you got?


Think on this?
The losses of candidates like O'Donnell (who performed her trick beautifully, drawing mainstream media attention to her uncompetitive race while the nation otherwise went red...) and others in Tea Party backed races takes absolutely nothing away from yesterday's ... Just Say No mandate. (hey, I can spin too!)

What you have now in the Republican party --
what it took some time to put under, but I don't think will revive... is the death of RINO's (Republicans in Name Only.)

By telling those candidates "Thanks, but no thanks" in the primaries, you may have lost the battle for the Republican seat, but the war? Those candidates you did help elect will remain loyal to the team, and not their own agendas.

Now tell me:
what would it take for the Democratic party to stock their pools with loyal non-compromisers who understand their electorate well enough -- he who brung 'em to the Dance, so to speak -- so that the party doesn't continue to divide into the Elite Interests who can buy what it is they want without Republican assent, and the scorned Democrats who see no need to vote for that which they never ordered up.

DINOs -- Extinct yourself already.

Which reminds me...
Can anyone believe that it's only been a few years since Ted Kennedy left us -- physically, that is; a lot of non-elite Dems think he left us long, long ago -- and his overriding liberal influence has pretty much died on the vine?

In his memory, the healthcare bill was wheedled through last Christmas; in his memory, men like Russ Feingold took their lumps yesterday...

Turn the page already, and stop listening to the professional spinners (this one who thinks he represents, or speaks for the Western regions). Their professional and career interests don't represent what the American people are saying they want -- now! -- from their politicians.

If we can't listen to the people today,
when will they? Who really benefits when the professional pundits contract for a few "unique perspective" column inches by misidentifying what voters want, or perhaps worse, scoring their concerns and fiscal questions as mere ignorance or lack of understanding?

Not the Democrats, I'll tell you that. And probably, not the country as a whole either...

ADDED: It helps too, to listen to the winners, especially those names whose personal appeal and demographic diversity no doubt appeal to the masses:

In his victory speech last night, Senator-elect Marco Rubio said:

We make a great mistake if we believe that tonight these results are somehow an embrace of the Republican party. What they are is a second chance, a second chance for Republicans to be what they said they were going to be not so long ago.