[sirchtruth]

The whole point is we got rid of that skank Scuzzy! Hoffman, an unknown conservative, albeit not a republican held it close. This was in spite of a majority of the republican's and the republican party putting all their money a resources behind a LIBERAL!

This is at the very least a good turn of events for republican's.

[Ratman83]

Getting rid of Scuzzy is good but the local GOP will not leatn from it unless they replace the whole leadership. The national party hopefully will learn to look at a canadite before the just follow the local rep.

[ConservativeWarrior]

This is at the very least a good turn of events for republican's.

Exactly. There were two benefits:

- GOP learned that the conservative base will not stand for "moderate" (read: liberal) nominees.

- Conservatives avoided another Arlen Specter-esque RINO. Someone who would have most certainly voted with dems on healthcare, cap and trade, etc... Owens will still support these things, but he'll do so as a democrat. This hurts the dem congress' ability to claim bi-partisan support for its insanity.