[Servant of the Cross]

In February 2009 he took to the pages of Politico in order to slam Rush Limbaugh with an infantile rant that was excruciatingly shallow and formulaic.

I hope Rush reads this article and "re-lives" the correct history on this ... and the introduction of Rick Santelli just days later.

Conversely, while the Contract with America gets a lot of ink in the history books, it essentially was an exercise in overpromising and under-delivering. The result? Bill Clinton easily won reelection in 1996.”

WTF? I hope both Speaker Gingrich and VP Cheney read this and "re-live" the accurate history of the Contract with America.

When Newt showed up he said, we can become the majority, we can take back the House of Representatives. We hadn't had the House since the 1940s. And initially, none of us believed it. But he was persistent, he was tenacious. He kept it up, kept it up, and kept it up. Finally by '94 he's the newly elected Speaker of the House of Representatives with a Republican majority. So I wouldn't underestimate him.

[C. Edmund Wright]

X, you axed about the NC Senate race in another thread, so I have directed you to this one - where I think the article answers your question as to how Hagan is hanging in there - even though that specific race is not part of this article.

Tillis and the Super PACS supporting him are running a classic establishment local campaign, thus missing the very zeitgeist that led to routs in 1994 and 2010 - the same zeitgeist we should be tapping into today.