Awesome. I don't think boxer needs a ton of help, but a bloody primary fight between a McLoser campaign flack and a lunatic should be more than enough to make this one a done deal.

These Teabaggers are really feeling their oats. Let's hope they completely destroy the Republican Party. As the first ten months of Obama's administration have proven, we don't need Republicans to obstruct and slow down progressive change.

BoXer sent out an email yesterday seeking monthly contributions of 5 bucks+ to Election Day.

She'd been raising cash like crazy since 2005 anticipating a challenge from Schwarzenegger

""California is ready for a turn back to freedom,"

There is that word "freedom"...no small coincidence that DeMint uses it today. Eric Cantor did last night in his hateful speech after McDonnell spoke. Michelle Bachmann did today. They all read their talking point from the RNC yesterday and are regurgitating the word as told to do.

Jon Stewart should do one of his classic video encapsulations where he shows all the Repubs using the same word/phrase within 24 hours of each other. It just shows how incapable the ignorant Repubs are of thinking independently.

"Vote the right way" Nice totalitarian phrase. Thank you, Fearless Leader.

The purge continues - Night of the long sporks from KFC.

Looks Like DeMint is making good on his dream of 30 "real" GOP members in the Senate.

DeVore is totally unknown in the state (outside his Orange County base). Fiorina has tons of baggage. Both will be beat easily by Boxer (despite the fact that Boxer isn't particularly popular and isn't particularly likeable)

As megalomaniac as the extreme right is, it shows the Teabagger movement is even more about settling personal scores than it is about power. Unlike Charlie Crist, Fiorina should be quite OK for the teabaggers on policy, but what they don't like is that she is so closely identified with John McCain.

Poor Carlyfornia can't catch a break!

From today's DSCC Rant:

1. CEO Fail: Carly Fiorina was named among the nation's 20 worst CEOs by Portfolio magazine. No wonder. Under her leadership, Hewlett-Packard's stock fell 60%, and 28,000 employees were fired. She got fired, too, but her $21 million golden parachute made for a soft landing. Tweet this

2. Iran Dealings? When HP's stock fell, it wasn't for lack of selling products - in Iran. Which happens to be illegal. The San Jose Mercury News reported that in the past 12 years, the company has used a Middle East distributor to sell millions of dollars' worth of merchadise to Iran, "sidestepping a U.S. ban on trade with the country." Fiorina was CEO from 1999-2005. Tweet this

3. What, Me Vote? Running a company (into the ground) is hard work! A CEO is far too busy to vote! Or so it seems. Fiorina's voting record looks like Swiss cheese. She cast a ballot in only 6 of 14 elections held since 2000. She even skipped the 2000 and 2004 presidential primaries and the 2003 gubernatorial recall election. If she's so disdainful of democracy, what makes her think she deserves to represent California in the Senate? Tweet this

4. McCain's Pain: Pity Fiorina's poor campaign manager. Fiorina's tendency to go off the reservation ended her short-lived career as a John McCain for President spokeswoman after she said none of the presidential or vice presidential nominees was qualified to run a major American corporation - including her boss, John McCain. Perhaps he votes too often? Tweet this

5. Primary First: All of this assumes that Fiorina even gets the Republican nomination. That might be assuming too much. Her main competition, State Sen. Chuck DeVore, is the darling of the tea-party set. We've been seeing the fringe element taking over establishment Republicans across the country. Which makes one wonder why Fiorina has been bragging up her support from the National Republican Senatorial Committee. We saw how far national party support took Dede Scozzafava in New York's 23rd District. Tweet this

Lots of talk on the progressive side about primarying various of the Blue Dogs next cycle... what do TPMers think of the parallels between that and what's going on with the teabaggers on the right? False equivalence? I would love to see some of the BDs go down...

DeMint is my senator. Since he has an organization to insure that only the pure of the GOP run for office and that the moderates are run out of the party, I think it is only fair that someone starts an organization to unseat the wingnuts of SC, starting with DeMint. It's a huge job since wingnuts are really popular here in SC, and we need help.

Jim DeMints never fails to embarass me.

I predicted this yesterday on the Crist thread - this isn't the end of their wretched Crusade. New Hampshire and Illinois are both fielding NRSC-backed center-right candidates that are facing grassroots wingnut challengers. While Hoffman's loss somewhat complicates their conquests, don't be surprised if the teabaggers have a few more moderate GOP scalps in their collection by 2010.

What's interesting is that some on the right are comparing this to the late 1960's when Goldwater/Nixon/Reagan veered the party dramatically right and turned the GOP into an ideological vehicle for conservatism. Problem for them is, the GOP back then had the strong intellectual heavyweights (Bill Buckley, Frank Meyer, Irving Kristol, et al) needed to not only give the party legitimacy on a policy standpoint but to also allow space for other wings of the Republican Party to exist. Nowadays, their "intellectual" leaders includes nimrods like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Sean Hannity. They not only fail on the intellectual end, but are self-aggrandizing entertainers that make more money by whipping up the masses, not by building legit coalitions. I wonder if the teabaggers realize this, that the conservative punditocracy has no real interest in building a new governing majority because they can make way more money by constantly firing up an angry minority.

The word is already out they've targeted Mark Kirk here in IL. That's only solidifies Dem odds of holding the Senate seat. The IL GOP is in even worse shape than that in NY. Remember - this is the party that brought in Alan Keyes to challenge Obama in 2004.

I am concerned, though, about TX. The GOP is still mighty strong in the Longhorn State, enough so that Dem family members want to cross primary lines to help KBH. They don't believe it's possible for a Dem to win, so voting for KBH is their attempt to oust Perry.

Teabaggers Eat Their Own! Contortionist Fetishists! In other words, Charlie Foxtrot.

I wouldn't suggest that anything coming from DeMint would be considered a "boost".