From this post, along with several others like it that I reading here and elsewhere, I'm observing two things:

First, I sensing that the Republican Party on the state and partially on a national level has been tone deaf when it comes to the Tea Party Movement. These are grassroots people who are instrumental in any successful campaign. Republicans running for office are more apt to sell their souls (and their principles) in order to garner votes.

Which leads me to number two.

I no longer going to use George Santayana because I don't think that he is resonating very well. So I'll go instead with Aldous Huxley who stated that ,"The most important thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history."

The lessons from 2006 & 2008 apparently have not sunken in yet.

Instead of having two clear and very delineated choices for a particular office, we're back to democrat and democrat-lite as options.