Damn, Damn and More Damn. For one moment I was hoping that sanity and common sense had a fighting chance, but I guess not.

RBS

25% turnout.

She didn’t win a single county, and now the country is stuck with yet another total asshole Republican in Congress.

re: #1 RealityBasedSteve

Damn, Damn and More Damn. For one moment I was hoping that sanity and common sense had a fighting chance, but I guess not.

RBS

Not in an R+11 congressional district.

re: #2 Skip Intro

25% turnout.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

re: #6 Amory Blaine

This is why we can’t have nice things.

The D candidate loses in that district with any level of turnout, assuming no skewing of the turnout in favor of the Democrats, and no outrageous gaffe by the R candidate.

There are lots of wingnuts out there, and they tend to vote.

This was expected unfortunately.

re: #7 EPR-radar

There are lots of wingnuts out there, and they tend to vote.

especially in special elections to replace a Tea Party guy

re: #7 EPR-radar

and no outrageous gaffe by the R candidate.

Sanford’s campaign was full of gaffes, but I guess they didn’t amount to much from a candidate who just walked off his last job, flew to Argentina to cheat on his wife, then lied through his ass about it.

re: #10 Skip Intro

Sanford’s campaign was full of gaffes, but I guess they didn’t amount to much from a candidate who just walked off his last job, flew to Argentina to cheat on his wife, then lied through his ass about it.

None of these are “outrageous gaffes” by RWNJ standards.

Sanford could have lost this election by dumping a flag on a fresh grave at a military cemetery, dropping a bible on the flag, and then making a video of himself taking a dump on the bible + flag + grave.

Admitted a totally over the top example, but the more serious point is that anything less would most likely not make a dent in tribal loyalties.

Family values.

Fuck you, GOP and South Carolina.

I meet people. People who say they love South Carolina. I ask them where they where in South Carolina. They tell me “Myrtle Beach.” I look at them and say; “You have not been in South Carolina.” I get a few “What does that mean?” If I have to explain it, there is no sense. Sense. Where have I heard that word before?

And now the lying, crazy, hypocritical, tribal-at-all-costs proportion of the TP/GOP has arrived.

40%.

Enjoy your new Dark Ages, you wastes of flesh.

This is why the GOP cannot distance itself from its base by taking any sort of moderate, reasonable stance on anything. They know that their base is bat-ship crazy and would drop them for a womanizing liar as long as he is anti-abortion, anti-immigration and anti-gun control.

I grew up in SC. Spartanburg - to a working-class, Christian, Republican family.

So I know all about how people “love” SC for North Myrtle Beach and Hilton Head but only stopped to piss anywhere else in the state. The rest of SC has been a mess forever, just a centuries-long stretch of petite elites (bourbons) who sell out the poors and secure their positions by bad-mouthing the federal elites. Tea Party is nothing new there (basically a redux of the 1875-78 Red Shirt movement, without most of the vigilantes)… still a town named after Wade Hampton

Ok so I never expected a Dem to win there, but seriously, Sanford?

And now we have the yellow-dog Republicans. Nate Silver said Sanford’s adultery cost him about 13 points, which just wasn’t enough in a district which gave Romney an 18 point victory over the President.