Even with all the gains made by Republicans and the Pseudo-Republicans (Tea Party), there is something of a silver lining. The most consummately ignorant, bubble-brained, dimbulb nutjobs, Sharron Angle and Christine O'Donnell, went down in flames. We will not have to turn on the TV set and hear their rancid, rambling rhetoric every day.
A second reason to be grateful is that in at least a few important races, money did NOT buy success. Meg Whitman laid out over $120 million
in her unsuccessful effort to become governor of California. Jerry Brown spent about one fifth that amount and cleaned her plow.
Linda McMahon, the WWE Wrestling moll, spent something like $50 million of the loot she earned from production of inane,family-unfriendly "entertainment" in the form of faked-up wrestling with faked-up (but nevertheless very realistic) violence and gratuituous sexual exploitation. She lost big time to a career Democratic politician.
I don't know how many millions "Mad as Hell" Carl Paladino spent in his unsuccessful effort to become governor of New York, but he, too, lost to a career Democratic politician, and the foul-mouthed, dirty-minded, pornography-obsessed varmint deserved to lose.
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