[Major Matt Mason]

Plenty of blame to go around in the AL debacle - not to mention the usual Democrat chicanery - but this writer is delusional if he thinks that there isn't a GOPe that is desperately trying to hang onto power. That group is the reason that we have a battle within the party to begin with.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Hindsight is 20-20. Strange would have kept the seat. Ivey should not have called for special election. Anybody in Calif. remember our conservatives nominating Bill Simon for Gov? Stupid.