Republicans are screwed

[King]

I'm calling it.

Rand Paul's is going to be like his father: the only member of his lil' Tea Party caucus in the Senate.  Judging by that victory speech, Marco Rubio was only assumed to be a Teabagger.   He's not full blown like Chairman Paul.  He's not really going to be on board with that in the Senate.  Hoeven is establishment.  Kirk will be a Moderate Hero.  Ron Johnson won't be a factor either, etc., etc.  He'll pray for Joe Miller to join him in the foolishness, but they won't actually have any influence.

They may have something in the House, but only enough to undermine Boehner's leadership not actually get anything done.  Boehner is obviously not up to to the challenge with his weepfested ways.  Seeing your opponent cry just rallies the opposition.  He'll over-compromise and actually reminds me of the Republican Harry Reid as a leader.

Gridlock will storm Congress and continue their unpopularity.  Like Charles Krauthammer said on FOX (though not in a positive spin), Obama will govern via regulation and maintain some popularity..

Sarah Palin will get nominated for President and crushed in the general.

All 2010 pickups in the House will be gone by 2012-14. 

But ONE shining grace: because the unelectables didn't win in 2010, they won't have huge losses in 2016 in the Senate.  People like Buck, Angle, Fiorina and O'Donnell would have been doomsday 2016 for the GOP with their idiocy being propagandized to bring down decent candidates in other states (The Russ Feingold Effect from now on).  Rubio, Kirk, and Johnson aren't threatening people.  Joe Miller or Lisa Murkowski will get primaried in 2016 for somebody better again.

[King]

Excuse me, they will lose Colorado in 2016 now.

[King]

Yeah and the Democrats really screwed themselves over in 1930, didn't they?

Completely different situation.  Democrats aren't getting blamed for the recession here, they're getting blamed for inaction.  Republicans are going to be just as inactive.

This is a very temporary flip.

[King]

Well I wouldn't say they are screwed just yet, but I think it all depends on what happens to the Tea Party. Look at the Tea Party candidates in the Senate:

Paul - Won
O'Donnell - Lost
Angle - Lost
Raese -  Lost
Miller - Will have lost when everything is counted
Buck - Same as Miller

Four of those seats Republicans should have had no problem winning in this enviorment. So the Republicans should be worried about the Tea Party in the future. If the Tea Party survives and continues to primary out sane Republicans with loonys that could create a real problem for them.

Rubio is a tea party candidate.

No.  The Tea Party has made them their candidate, but he's never made any mention of them or claim that he is a teabagger like the rest of people on that list.  Rubio being a Tea Partier is the biggest lie being told this media cycle.

He's a conservative, but he ain't tea.

[King]

This isn't a post that has anything to do with optimism.

Personally, I would like to see the government get smaller and consolidated into a manner that is more efficient.  The reality is that such a thing is impossible and its not what this election was about.  The Republicans just caught a hot potato. 

The average American is a complete New Deal liberal who has been brainwashed into thinking he's conservative.  He's going to protest for smaller government because the campaign has him thinking we're spending $3 trillion on bridges to nowhere, but the second we actually start cutting spending he'll begin to see the money is actually going to the projects he knows and maybe even uses.

Nostalgia will kick in at some point and the teabaggers will turn.