[KLT]

DOUG, TELLS IT HOW IT IS!

[Fred Mertz]

In Minnesota, Republican Norm Coleman handed replacement candidate Walter Mondale his first-ever statewide defeat in a race that wasn’t called until after the sun came up today.

Now Mondale has lost in all 50 states. What a loOser!

[hellinahandcart]

"What a night!" bump...

[KLT]

CONGRATS PING SUMMER....JEB WON BIG...PING Y'ALL

[snopercod]

I'm as excited as anyone with the Republican victory, but let's not forget that Traitor Lott will be in control of the Senate, making his backroom deals and selling out conservatives at every opportunity.

I suspect this euphoria we're all feeling will wear off and reality will set in RSN [Real Soon Now]. (I hope I'm wrong.)

[anniegetyourgun]

Poor Jimmy Car-vile. He shouldn't be so hard on himself. The lib/dems had a message....it was 'we're lying, cheating, scummy, yesterdays news, tasteless, tax-and-spenders'!!!!!!!!!!

[Brad C.]

The way I figure it is that we now have 2 years to correct the problems that were created by the demos over the last 40 years, fight what will become a world war without national enemies, educate the people at home that what we are doing is "a good thing", and of course; campaign for reelection in 2004.

If we had real leaders in the house and senate, I would say it might be done, but we have a real challenge ahead of us and most of it comes down on President Bush's shoulders. God bless and protect him as he goes forward.

[ventana]

While the subject matter is grotesque, it must be admitted, the artwork here is absolutely beautiful! V's wife.

[MissAmericanPie]

To paraphrase of one of my favorite human beings ever born. "We held them by the nose, and kicked them in the pants".=o)

[randita]

Bush has brought the Reagan Democrats back into the fold. That is my observation after last night.

This is excellent news. Bush is astute enough not to overreach like the GOP did in '95. If Bush remains as popular as he is today, incumbents and challengers for open seats will ride in on his coattails in '04.

[tutstar]

woohoo ......toooooo funny!

[Letitring]

Good read, thank you.

[uglybiker]

A little blast from th' past...

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Minorities, who may have felt the Dems were taking them for granted[...]

One can only hope that they finally realized this.

[1Old Pro]

This is perhaps the biggest and most meaningful GOP victory since Reagan....

1) The Supreme Court, need I say more.

2) Bush's federal judgeships will now proceed!

3) The Dems were repudiated in ssuch a sweet way: McCauliffe should resign which lessons the Clintoon influence on the National Dem Party and hopefully sinks Hitlery's future aspirations.

4) One of the best things: Mondale loses proving that dancing on the grave of a dead fellow Deomcrat and having Klintoon smiling and laughing during the memorial is simply too much for the electorate to stomach. Congrats to Minnesota!

5) The best job in the world? I'd say that goes to the person who gets to throw Dashole out of his office and move him and Jeffords into the broom cloest in the basement.

6) Lousenberg?? Sheesh, this geezer is too old to even take Dem orders. He'll spend his time drooling ath the D.C. steakhouses.

7) Saxby Chambliss over Cleland, that's a big one right up there with Sununu winning in N.H.

NOW, Bush and Congress have two years to prove that they deserve this. Someone should tell the future Senate Majority leader that we are not sharing power, we're moving forward with the many things the Dems have stalled.

[Billthedrill]

Pigs are winging it - I agree with James Carville. Relentless demonization of opponents is Politics Lite - it is mistermed "going on the offensive" - it is actually a defensive technique politically, much more suited to incumbency than to gaining office. You can't really gain ground that way, your hope is to force your opponents to lose it.

I read repeatedly on DU last evening (amongst the truly delicious "lamentation of the women" that went on) the asseveration that the Dems should have pounded on "the economy, the economy, the economy." Well, they did after a fashion, but it was purely derogatory - I asked a Dem friend what she would do and all she could come up with was "well, I certainly wouldn't give a tax break to the wealthiest 1%." Then she went off on the obligatory rant about warmongering, mean-spiritedness, etc, etc - when I brought her up short by repeating the question she looked at me as if I'd said something really nasty. It wasn't, actually, all I'd said was "that isn't a program, it's the absence of one. What would you do?"

That, in a nutshell, was what was wrong with Democrats2002 - what the radicals insisted was "staking out our territory" was, in fact, a redefinition of the party in purely negative terms - they're NOT the Republicans in this or that regard, but who the heck are they? Again, that's fine if you're an incumbent, and if you're not it fails just as resoundingly as Dems2002 did last night.

I'm hoping what they take out of it is a sense that they must radicalize in order to define themselves. That's what the adolescent wing of the party, the college-age enthusiasts, the superannuated 60s antiwar types, the Clintons and McAuliffes, want to do. It will certainly solidify and energize their supporters - all 20% of the voting population of them.

[dwbh1342]

As a loyal liberal Democrat (gasp!), I can tell you that most of my like-minded friends are screaming for the heads of Daschle, Gephardt, and McAuliffe right now. We as a party played the rearguard strategy of going along with all of Shrub's war initiatives in order to downplay them and emphasize our own issues, except we forgot to emphasize our own issues. We came across as "Republicans lite", and why vote for a Republican lite when you can vote for the real thing? It's really just sickening and depressing.

We simply offered no opposition, despite having tons of ammo with the economy, Enron, Halliburton, tax cuts for the wealthy, etc. etc. etc. All the political ads I saw from Dems were something like "I'm kind of a middle of the road guy, but my opponent eats babies for breakfast."

We handed you guys these elections, and you took them. Good job. Now we just have to find someone with a spine (a la Carter or Clinton) to lead us back to the promised land in '04.

[hardhead]

Now that victory is ours, can we gloat a little? Or would it be more appropriate to be 'nice' and call the DNC or any 'd' and offer them some cheer? This little ditty, played on your touch-tone keypad is meant to annoy telemarketers but may be appropriate for the 'd's:

MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB

6-5-4-5-6-6-6

5-5-5-6-6-6

6-5-4-5-6-6-6-6-5-5-6-5

4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4

4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4

Sort of sounds like 'na-na, na-na-na-na' doesn't it?

[Revolting cat!]

“We lost sight of the simple political fact that in order to win elections, you’ve got to stand for something,” Carville said. “We didn’t have a message.”

Please note that the intellectual heavy of the RAT Party didn't say "we've got to stand for something"! No, he said "We didn’t have a message". We don't have to stand for something, we just have to have a message. Doesn't that pretty much define the essential character of the RAT Party?

[ThomasMore]

Thanks for the post!

Great night for America!

If you want to celebrate, click hear and have some fun!

Lady Liberty Fireworks

Have a BLAST!

[Fintan]

Coincidence???