This will be my only comment on the bloodbath, that was the 2014 General Election ...

[Colorado Liberal]

76. "aggrieved liberal living amongst the conservative evildoers"?

Where in the hell do you get that from anything I've written? The only "conservative evildoers" I'd refer to are the ones with (R) after their names - Gardner, Buck, Coffman, all of the right-wing whack jobs that just won their elections by telling all of the lies about themselves that Koch brothers money could buy.

You seem to be painting liberals with a broad brush, and if I take issue with anything, it's the subtext (perhaps not yours, it's hard to tell with all of the finger-pointing today) that liberals and progressives are to blame for yesterday's fiasco, because we didn't love the Democrats more centrist candidates enough.

And when did I even imply that Colorado was simplistic? Colorado's about as purple as it gets (more of a red state with a deep blue center, where most of the people live), and kicked Udall to the curb while keeping Hickenlooper (pro-big oil, but got in trouble for pushing for gun control legislation and for giving a temporary reprieve in a high profile death penalty case) as govenor. Don't lecture me about not understanding how Colorado is.

At the end of the day, I have two take-aways from this election, and neither of them have a damn thing to do with how dysfunctional the Democratic Party is. One - the Koch brothers now know that they can buy elections, and in the absence of legislation changing the post-Citizens United campaign rules, they'll just be more emboldened to throw money at 2016. Second, the NRA was a huge winner yesterday, which makes the odds of any meaningful gun control just about nonexistent in the next 2 years. Given that I work with someone whose daughter was killed at school in one of these shootings, that result is immensely disappointing. Hard to have much enthusiasm looking forward given those realities...