[Cincinatus' Wife]

Dysfunctional Democrats play election blame game*** "The Democratic Party is a family -- a dysfunctional family, but a family. In order for the family to fix problems, they need to get together in a big circle and talk," he said.***

[goldstategop]

The Democrats are shrinking in Massachusetts. Many Dems are to the RIGHT of their own party. And what's even more bad news for them is if the trend continues their long stranglehold on Congress and the Senate may come to an end in our lifetime. I don't think The Schwimmer is thinking about retirement - it doesn't mean his own seat is necessarily safe for a Democrat.

[MHT]

The Republicans also won because they had a very well-known, media-savvy candidate from an experienced political family (sound like the description of a Kennedy). If only they could get a couple more just like him to take those two Senate seats.

Any suggestions?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Wasn't it in Boston where union guys insisted on going into voting booths with people? Didn't help enough, huh? Funny thing, JFK was a tax cutter. The foundation of Mass. liberal politics is poisoned at the root.

[Burkeman1]

What defeat!? Like they care. A GOP head of state gives them cover! They would be happy if O'Brien won. But they don't care since Mitt won. We had Weld and Celluccii and it didn't matter one speck. In Fact a GOP head of state gives this state an aura of respect. We don't deserve it. Romney will be a good little GOP figure head and let the Democrats run the state as always.

[AZLiberty]

'In my district, many Democrats support the death penalty, sportsmen's issues, you know, around guns, fiscal responsibility, and in many cases, lower taxes,'' said Glodis. ''But the leadership of the party is talking about bilingual education, `Clean Elections,' and gay marriage. There's a great divide.''

"Democrats" are even dumber than I thought. It's one thing to support stupid policies if you believe in them. It's much worse this way.

[johnny7]

O'Brien beat herself. Romney was just too professional for her to handle.

Kerry and Olver won by big margins.

The rotten dems still run the state.

My only hope is that Romney can stop the tax hikes the dems are drooling for.

MA is is as bad as OR, WA & VT... socialist cesspools, with “alternative” lifestyles.

[PGalt]

There is no party. They are a collection of criminals running herd over people that are rationally impaired.

[Prodigal Son]

I love watching them self destruct before my eyes. I always hoped for it the last 10 yrs but I guess I didn't think it would really happen. Go Progressive/Socialist Dems! Leftwards Ho!

[fieldmarshaldj]

The problem still remains, though, that the MA Dems is the party of the big ideological tent at the legislative level, and the state GOP is non-existent, with conservatives being driven out as ruthlessly as by the Dems elsewhere under the reign of Weld-Cellucci-Swift. Romney has an opportunity to start to repair the damage and bring back people that are represented by the likes of Guy Glodis (who would be a Republican elsewhere), but he will have to literally start from scratch. Not an easy task at all.

[cgbg]

Romney more than wiped that out in the small leafy town of Boxford (population 8,000) in Essex County

The town of Boxford has to be seen to be believed. It reminded me of the movie "The Stepford Wives". Every blade of grass in the entire town is perfect. Enery house costs a fortune.

These are "country club Republicans" and will ensure that even if and when the Rats are driven from power they can only be replaced by RINOs.

The only way these folks could be converted to Freepers would be for the Rats to double the state income tax and mandate weekly Gay Pride Parades through the streets of town. ;-)

[jalisco555]

That will be the task of the new commission, chaired by state Senator Guy W. Glodis, a conservative from Auburn; Senator-elect Jarrett T. Barrios, a Cambridge progressive; and a woman to be named later, possibly Somerville Mayor Dorothy Kelly Gay.

Sheesh, no wonder the Dems are losing. Talk about mindless identity politics. I guess anyone with two X chromosomes will do. Liddy Dole, maybe, or Imelda Marcos?

[Lancey Howard]

The debate: Should the party resolve that it will try to appeal to ''moderates'' and ''mainstream'' voters? Indignant liberals, including one gay and two African-American members, rose to strike those words, saying it would signal an abandonment of principles, a retreat to the political center, and might open the door wider for the fledgling Green Party. They prevailed. ''Moderates'' was deleted and ''mainstream'' became ''all voters.''

Wow. Great post. Bookmarked.

"To win elections, you can't win just with the communities of color or just the gay and lesbian community, but you can't win without them."

LOFL!!! Sounds like a real pickle.

"We will not be looking just to the right or just to the left. ... We'll look at our message, our messengers, and to whom we are sending the message..."

Translation: "We have to do a much better job of lying, and we need some real smooth liars."