Poor non-competitive Republicans

Mitt Romney's campaigned hard in 2004 to put more CEOs into the Massachusetts legislature. He directed an unremittingly (ha) negative campaign, but he failed utterly. I live in one of the Senate districts that he targeted with laughably nasty mailings at the rate of several per week, and it turned people off.

My Senator won 60/40.

Now the Republican Party is having trouble recruiting candidates. Boo-hoo.

They're going to run on the argument that their electoral failure is the best reason to elect more of them. Yeah, right.

Massachusetts has had Democratic government for two years, and the world has not fallen apart. Taxes haven't gone up. There are still checks and balances here, unlike Washington before 2006. Democrats aren't the monolithic blocs that Republicans are.