The Devil Made Him Do It

By Zamboni

Since our team is now out of the Stanley Cup playoffs, we cats understand being on the losing side of things. But still, we were curious to see how the far-right base of the Republican Party was reacting to the GOP loss in the 20th Congressional District of New York.

It seemed especially interesting because "the base" are folks who — unlike the majority of the country — are in no mood to get on the Obama recovery and renewal train, or even to cheerfully wave it on. No, they're bruised, battered, resentful and mad. And before the special election was held to fill now-Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's former House seat, they were rooting and hoping and praying for GOP candidate Jim Tedisco, whom they seemed to like.

Well, everything's different now. Here's why Mr. Tedisco lost, courtesy of the angry, frustrated posters over at Free Republic.

• Scott Murphy stole the election. ACORN helped him cheat.
• The election wasn't free and fair. What happened to Democrats saying "Count every vote"?
• This result was preordained, the same way Coleman vs. Franken was. (Hello? Would someone please send a note to Norm Coleman and Tim Pawlenty?)
• Redistricting has put this particular C.D. out of reach for GOP. (Never mind that registered Republicans there still outnumber registered Democrats by 70,000.)
• The "party elites" who ran the campaign didn't know what they were doing.
• Michael Steele should resign.
• Tedisco was a terrible candidate.
• Tedisco is a RINO.
• New York State is a hopeless cause for the Republicans. The party should just give up on the place.
• The Democratic Party is the party of Satan.

We cats love these people! Who would entertain us if it weren't for the fearless Freeps?