Have you heard about the lonesome loser?

How far have you fallen from a position as a party of national consequence when you resort to celebrating defeats?

So the Democrats failed to get plastered in an election for a House of Representatives seat in the electoral "flashpoint" of Ohio. (Just as an aside here, it is me or are the Dems always fighting the last war?) Forget that it was a special election with no incumbent; forget that voter turnout was about a third of what it was in the November 2004 regular election, forget that local issues may have played a major role in the result. It's the end of the Bush era! Let's celebrate!

I guess there's always the possibility that the Dems are trying to lull the GOP into a false sense of security. Yeah, that's probably it.