I can't help but feel a bit sorry for Mr. Donnelley...its the twitter equivalent of being mistakenly placed on the "No-Fly List"

The GOTP starts by rounding up the most right wing electorate, then moderate there views to appeal to the independence. What they believed in yesterday is history today, but will repeated once elected.. Just look at the 2010 elections the GOTP was elected on creating jobs but have done every thing but... A 7% approval rating bears this out

If the people who were just ignorant of what the GOTP was pulling in 2010 wake up we will gain a few seats. The zealots who thought they were righteous in their choices are beyond all reason in 2012. If just 20% realized they were duped, this election can be quite meaningful toward a 2nd term for POB. Zeus willing.

Richard Mourdock reminds me of the lovable con-man from <i>Green Acres</i>, Mr. Haney.

Yeah, that dates me.

A republican saying a democrat has issues with women? Boy howdy I find that amusing to say the least.

I notice the Republican woman doesn't provide any context for her anti-Carmona comments.

If you personally know Captain Brennen then you can believe this, or you're on the pinch of salt diet! Sorry crowd, living sourceful has it's rules all of the sudden.

The attacks on Carmona reek of desperation on the part of Jeff Flake and the NRSC. When you don't have the issues, the momentum, or the candidate's biography on your side, make things up. Throw as much as you can against the wall, just to see if anything sticks.

Doesn't exactly speak well of the Republican candidate.

The Change in Tone and Civility…

(azcentral.com, McCain, 2/17/2012) "U.S. Sen. John McCain is one Arizona Republican who is not excited about Wednesday's GOP presidential debate in Mesa.

A downbeat McCain told The Arizona Republic last week that he believes that the preponderance of debates over the past year or so -- there have been 25 since May -- and the increasingly negative tenor of the forums could result in the Republicans nominating a damaged candidate to take on President Barack Obama this year.

"They've turned from a candidate's ability to describe their position on the issues to mud-wrestling," McCain said. "Unfortunately, it has driven up the unfavorables of the candidates. So I think we've had enough debates, and every day that it goes on, the more advantage it gives to President Obama."

Even back during the Republican debates, the GOP had a problem with "NEGATIVITY". President Obama's first debate demonstrated to the Democrats how ill prepared they were for politics in the 21^st Century. With the likes of Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Coulter, Savage, the Teavanglicals and the Fox Noise Team, Republicans have become increasingly angry and negative. Somewhere down the line the "TRUTH" also took a battering as the GOP strategy became to win at all cost, LIE if you have too.

In last nights debate Vice President Joe Biden gave the Republicans a dose of their own medicine. Joe Biden's infamous smile was as effective as Mitt Romney's Cheshire Cat grin in his debate with President Obama. With Ryan playing the "Professional" Congressman, he didn't have a chance. Although America says it longs for "Civility" what we really want is "SPECTICAL" for entertainment, revenge and ratings.

No my friends "Democrats" are not above this sort of thing, and that's good. Last night Joe Biden's PERFORMANCE gave America hope that the Democratic Party had the BALLS to win. That we were not neutered by our own politeness and civility; that we could still defend our beliefs and fight for the American Middle Class without apology.

Lamenting days past is useless. The only way to fight FIRE is with FIRE and last night Joe Biden created that fire-line and let loose the dogs of hell. He changed the game for the Democrats, who have been afraid to fight, afraid to say Mitt Romney is a LIAR….afraid to interrupt or to take back the floor when interrupted, to be aggressive and assertive while defending their positions. But that is the world we live in now, it doesn't' really matter whether it is unfortunate or not…it is what it is and it has been changing for quite sometime….The Republicans were counting on a another election season where the Democrats would not catch on…they were counting on them staying neutered, polite and passive.

The first Presidential Debate seemed to have awakened the sleeping giant, one can hope. The issues are too big and too important to the American Middle Class and the poor among us to wring our hands about being POLITE….We must fight tooth and nail for what we believe, because the other side is doing the same…

The GOP stopped being "COLLEGIAL" with each other long ago, why would the Democrats think they were still going to extend that courtesy to you?

So my fellow Democrats, Progressives and Independents….it is time to stand up for ourselves and what we believe in and not hide behind the veil of "likability", we can be civil, but assertive and show America that we do have the CAJONES to lead…we must show them our CAJONES are HUGE and made of STEEL!!! JOE BIDEN was surely PROUD TO SHOW HIS and they were COLOSSAL LOL Good job JOE!

If anyone can still read after all that, here's a great suggestion for the next debate:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/topoftheticket/lat-na-tt-in-presidential-debates-20121011,0,667727.story

The Berman-Sherman thing is pretty sad if you're a Democrat who knows the history of the party in Los Angeles.

40 years ago, Howard Berman was one of the architects of the Watts-Westside-Labor alliance that finally broke the power of Republicans in the city and turned Los Angeles blue. He worked tirelessly to do that and should always be remembered for it.

Brad Sherman began his career working for Berman.

Over the years, however, Howard Berman has forgotten his roots and become pretty much everything he campaigned against when he first ran for Congress: a creature of Washington who puts the interests of his inside-the-beltway friends ahead of his constituents. Brad Sherman, on the other hand, does more work for his constituency that just about any congressional representative in the state.

All that said, having known both of them personally, I am really kicking myself for not having gone to the debate. Seeing a pair of political nerds, fighting! I am laughing my ass off just imagining it.

It does, however, point to Berman's desperation. Last weekend, all the Sherman yard signs in my neighborhood were vandalized. A campaign that does that is a campaign that knows it is in deep doo-doo, as they say.

Bye bye, Howard, too bad you didn't know when to say good-bye on your own. But you'll always be remembered as the guy who politically kicked Sam Yorty in his balls.

How can the electorate take one debate's performance and turn it in to a change in their voting, whether it's last week's or last night's? Are people so lacking in judgment that they call a quiet, serious, less passionate response by one of the candidates last night as tying or winning the debate when the same descriptors last week applied to the President was determined to indicate losing the debate?

Please follow up on TPM's report that the request for additional security was not seen by the President or VP and why reporters and pundits are acting as if they weren't aware that such a request would NOT make it up the chain unless the threats were deemed extreme? to Ryan's words last night, the request for increased security was for Tripoli, not Benghazi, as some have reported. This needs to be covered, especially since so many news outlets, paper and electronic, are calling Joe as lying about the Benghazi attack. Romney/Ryan conflating the Egypt and Benghazi attacks the first 24 hours was not helpful to the nation and certainly muddied how the administration could respond both at home and in the middle East.

But, I am most concerned that the media is really dumping on the Obama administration for the wrong reasons, and inserting themselves into this election in a most unhelpful manner. Please investigate and report to us your findings.