They will not, the leadership will blame Coakley, and rightly so, she ran a horrible campaign, she ran like she felt she was entitled to the seat. All politics are local don't you know...except when they are not.

All in all, it is in my opinion a perfect storm occurrence. A horrific candidate vs a decent one, with national mood having a thumb on the scales. In all a tremendous upset win for Brown. I am sure there will be many involved legal challenges, and an attempt to delay seating him.

Well, they could do that, but they will sound like total idiots given that the Democrats still hold an 18 seat majority.

Not that it matters anymore, mind you. The new constitutional requirement for anything to get done in the senate is apparently 60 votes.

Heheh. Work does not continue. The only thing that gets done in the senate is corporate control of our legislation.

I'm amazed at how important bipartisanship is to Republicans when they are in the minority, and how irrelevant it is to them when they are in the majority.

... but they will sound like total idiots given that the Democrats still hold an 18 seat majority.

You talking about J.D. Hayworth? What's funny about that is Hayworth hasn't even thrown his hat in the ring. Yet a poll done up in the Phoenix area with Hayworth's name in the mix shows him dominate McCain. We so need to kick that cranky old man out.

Heheh. Work does not continue. The only thing that gets done in the senate is corporate control of our legislation.

I'm amazed at how important bipartisanship is to Republicans when they are in the minority, and how irrelevant it is to them when they are in the majority.

Yuppers. I like Hayworth, and the insider buzz has him holding off on his intentions until he can capitalize on his anouncement, so while his hat isn't in the ring yet it's in the air above it. At this point it's just a matter of political gravity.

Still upset at the unanimous rejection of their hand-written AZGOP Victory Plan, supporters of John McCain continue to wage war on the Arizona Republican Party and its chairman, Randy Pullen.
The newest attack seeks to maximize the damage from news releases concerning documents that were stolen from the AZGOP HQ that detail invoices and account information. Some have claimed that the documents reveal some sort of illicit financial activity while party officials have stated that the stolen documents were nothing more than the usual invoices, many of which had already been paid. Media accounts also seemed to confuse state and federal expenses and wondered aloud why state expenses were not being shown on FEC reports.

Enter new Yuma County Chairman Phil Townsend and his cheap lettuce-picking labor friends, along with a prominent lobbying firm with McCain connections. Townsend has put his signature to a letter that was sent to all State Executive Committee members accusing Pullen and party counsel Lee Miller of various ethical breaches and lies. He is also calling for a “fraud audit” (which the party would have to pay for) and questions the credibility of the party.
All of which might have sounded credible had his act stopped there. But like all things McCain, it didn’t.

The same letter was then reproduced and appears to have been sent to every Precinct Committeeman in the state. Now this effort to stir up trouble is not an inexpensive effort. With nearly 4,000 PCs in the state, you might wonder at Mr. Townsend’s concern that he would spend nearly $2,000 just in postage to express it, especially to people who don’t even have a vote on the issue? Might his goal have been to simply blacken the eye of the State Party and its Chairman?
But we’re not sure that you need to worry about Townsend’s bank account. He was able to save a bunch of money by using the bulk mail permit that Veridus LLC uses for its clients. Why would a lobbying firm that relies on good relationships with Republican legislators, like Veridus, care to get involved? Well we can’t say for sure, but you could direct that question to Gibson McKay, the former McCain staffer who is their “campaign” guy. He would be able to detail the extent of their involvement and their reasons for it.

Still, even with the postage discount, packaging a mailer with several pages of inserts and getting a mail house to assemble it is going to set somebody back between $1,500 and $2,000 for the entire project.

Now who would spend $2,000 just to settle a grudge with a State Party that refused to back its self-serving Victory Plan?

Need another hint? As a county chairman, Mr. Townsend does not have a list of all of the PCs in the state, only some of the statewide candidates do. Does that help you to narrow down the list of suspects?

Yep, like they are so fond of saying, “The Mac is Back!”