I’ll come down and cuss you if you need me to.

— President Obama, offering to help Georgia gubernatorial candidate Roy Barnes (D) in any way, as recounted by Barnes to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

If she had spent her millions trying to help the poor, we’d be a lot better off today.

- Loretta Benavides, an independent voter from Martinez, Calif., saying she was so offended by Republican Meg Whitman’s spending $141 million of her own money to run for governor of California that she had decided to vote for the Democrat, Jerry Brown, instead.

The atmosphere around the 2010 midterm elections has been as charged with the potential for violence as any since the Vietnam era, at least. The poisoning of the political environment began last summer when cable news ran video of tea baggers throwing tantrums over the president’s birth certificate and similar issues at congressional town hall [...]

With all due candor, appearing on your own reality show on the Discovery Channel, I am not certain how that fits in the American calculus of ‘that helps me see you in the Oval Office.’

— Karl Rove, in an interview with the Daily Telegraph, arguing it was unlikely voters would regard Sarah Palin as “presidential material” in 2012.

It’s always nice to have friends who wish you the best, and as you know, in politics the number of people who say they were with you last time is substantially larger than the number of people that actually were with you last time.

— Mitt Romney, quoted by the Des Moines Register.

n a jaw-dropping development yesterday, Tim Profitt, the volunteer goon for the Rand Paul U.S. Senate campaign in Kentucky who was filmed stomping on the head of a Moveon.org activist outside a debate venue, has suggested that it was his victim who should apologize:
“I don’t think it’s that big of a deal,” Profitt said. And [...]

Remember folks, they are turning out the base this election. As Democrats and progressives, we can’t prove that the only way to get us to vote is to also appeal to our most extreme views. If you’re not enthusiastic about supporting moderate or even conservative Democrats, then you can’t complain when Republicans and tea baggers continue to trot out their most extreme candidates, the ones least likely to get anything helpful done in Washington or state capitals. Now go vote.

As the Republicans get ready to whup up
On Dems who act like a ready-whipped pup.
As the midterms descend
Is this really the end?
Or will the Dems finally “Man up?”

he thug who stomped on a Moveon.org member’s head at the Kentucky U.S. Senate debate last night has been identified by the Lexington Police Department:
The Lexington Division of Police has identified a suspect in connection to the October 25, 2010 assault of a woman at 600 Cooper Drive…
Officers responded to the scene of the assault [...]

Medpagetoday:
Just a week before the election, Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett-Packard CEO hoping to grab Sen. Barbara Boxer’s (D-Calif.) seat for the Republicans, has been hospitalized for an infection related to post-mastectomy breast reconstruction surgery.
Fiorina’s chief of staff issued a statement saying the candidate “came down with an infection associated with the reconstructive surgery and, [...]