Election commentary

Digby, as always, has some interesting comments, especially regarding the spin and "lessons" we'll get from the pundits after this election:

The MSM are going to make a big deal out of . . . Alan Grayson being generally rude and aggressive as reason for their losing his race, but they will be reflexively hippie punching and wrong on the facts.

Regarding Grayson, we have a little controlled experiment. His neighboring first term Democratic congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas, in a very similar district, took the opposite approach to Grayson. She ran as hard to the right as she could get away with, never had a controversial thought much less uttered one, was rewarded with big money and support from the DCCC --- and she lost too. This race was bigger than both of them. Florida is turning hard right.

At least Grayson went down fighting for something instead of being a sell-out to the lowest common denominator. I'll always be grateful for what he said and did these past two years. The country should thank him too --- the Fed audit wouldn't have happened and I'm not sure they wouldn't have been able to keep the foreclosure fraud cover-up going a lot longer than they did without his intervention. We will miss him.


And my favorite comment of hers:

Of course the fact that Obama is still in the White House when a large number of them seem to think they were voting against him today is bound to be confusing and upsetting anyway. But then, that's their natural state.