On January 19th, 2010 at 6:16 pm, chapoutier said:

If nothing else, Brown’s victory tonight has scored my wife the Kindle she has been wanting!

Like you wouldn’t have bought her one anyway just to keep her busy so you can hang out here.

Kevin Conroy, Coakley’s campaign manager, says “we have gotten several disturbing incidents from the polls calling the integrity of this election into question.”

After further review, Conroy discovers that all the incidents involve voter fraud on the part of Democrats on behalf of Coakley.

Never mind. Move along. Nothing to see here.

Dems cancel for Luntz’ after election focus group tonight. …

Coakley blames Washington DC for campaign failures….

If you can’t get to a poll, you don’t get to vote. Period.

It would eliminate the stupid lazy people who shouldn’t be voting in the first place.

On January 19th, 2010 at 4:25 pm, Edouard said:
When Scott Brown pulls off this election, let’s all pay our respects to a tenacious and proud breed: Massachusetts conservatives.

Here are people who have been waiting literally decades for a single moment like this one.

/raising a glass: Here’s To You, my long-long-suffering conservative friends in the Bay State!

Thank you for that. It does feel like shoveling s@#t against the tide sometimes, but we do try.

Isn’t this his unofficial duty to monitor that elections are fair in all the third world locales like Massachusetts!

1. Both Hillary and C(r)oakley assumed at the beginning that theirs would be a coronation, not an election. So the president-in-waiting and the party-hack-who-would-be-senator both spent most of their time practicing The Royal Wave and the haughty countenance instead of preparing for a real campaign.

2. As a result, Hillary was totally unprepared to campaign past Super Tuesday, and C(r)oakley was totally unprepared to campaign at all. Neither was able to recover when “Plan A” disintegrated.

Or if political autopsies are too boring, consider how C(r)oakley’s approach to the election mirrored the Wehrmacht’s preparations for the Barbarossa campaign in 1941, or the Japanese notions of what war vs. the USA would entail: the Germans were so confident that they’d be done fighting before the Russian winter set in that the subject of cold-weather clothing and equipment never seems to have been considered, and the Japanese honestly believed that the Americans wouldn’t fight.

And just like Hillary and C(r)oakley, neither had any workable fall-back option when their fantasies-as-plans fell apart.

“I love the smell of donk panic and recrimination in the evening; smells like … schadenfreude.”