Republican Failure?

Are you kidding me?  After winning back at least six Senate seats and sixty-plus in the House?  Well, this story in POLITICO says as much and points to serious riffs within the GOP as well.

Rush Limbaugh did an excellent job analyzing the piece on his show today, so I won't repeat what he has already said and, as usual, said about as well as anyone can.

But I would like to add this:

As one authority for the anti-Tea Party faction existing within the GOP (South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham is the other), the authors of the piece resurrect none other than former Mississippi Senator and Majority Leader Trent Lott.

Now the last time Trent Lott was mentioned in the liberal media at all was when he was being castigated as an out-of-the-closet racist for praising SC Senator Strom Thurmond at the old man's 100th birthday party.  But it seems Lott has changed, or at least he has now that he's useful to the liberal media.  He's emerged as an authority on what's wrong with the Republican Party, and among the things he thinks are wrong with it is its close relationship with the Tea Party.

Here's Lott lamenting just how close the GOP was to winning back the Senate along with the House: “We did not nominate our strongest candidates”  If so, "we would have won and been sitting at 50 [senators].”

And if Lott was still Majority Leader, with the Senate at 50-50, would he have offered the Democrats a power-sharing arrangement as he did in 2001?

One of the failures of the Republican Party was in not retiring the likes of Trent Lott sooner, much sooner. And Lindsey Graham had better enjoy his next few years in Washington as the senior Senator from the Palmetto State because they'll surely be his last.