Owens wins in New York! Teabaggers left all soggy and wrung out.

In perhaps the most closely watched race of the night, Democrat Bill Owens has won the vacant congressional seat in upstate New York -- making him the first Democrat to carry the district since the mid-19th Century.

He defeated Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman, who was backed by national conservative and GOP leaders, who was disenchanted with the positions taken by Republican nominee Dede Scozzafava. Scozzafava, out of money and running a poor third in the polls, dropped out of the race on Saturday and endorsed the Democratic candidate on Sunday.

There were a lot of Republican victories tonight but THIS race was very important because it was the one that could have convinced numerous people and pundits that Sarah Palin and the Teabagger movement were a true political force.

This is a good thing for the REAL Republicans, a great day for the Democrats, and a wonderful day for the future of politics in America.

Gee is today almost over? I am exhausted!

Update: Gee Sarah's Facebook ghostwriter sure is up late!

Congratulations to the new Governors-Elect of Virginia and New Jersey! I’d also like to offer a special word of support to the new Lieutenant Governor-Elect of New Jersey, Kim Guadagno, the first woman to hold that office. (What about that candidate from New York, Dede Scozzafava? Isn't she a woman? Oh I am sorry she is a strong willed smart independent woman. Wrong kind!)

Of course, the real victors in this election are the ordinary men and women who voted for positive change and a return to fiscal sanity. Your voices have been heard.

The race for New York’s 23rd District is not over, (Yes it is! Don't you read the news? Oh, I forgot.) just postponed until 2010. The issues of this election have always centered on the economy – on the need for fiscal restraint, smaller government, and policies that encourage jobs. In 2010, these issues will be even more crucial to the electorate. I commend Doug Hoffman and all the other under-dog candidates who have the courage to put themselves out there and run against the odds. (Stupid bastards who don't have a chance in hell but are so desperate for attention that they are willing to join our crazy ass group.)

To the tireless grassroots patriots who worked so hard in that race and to future citizen-candidates like Doug, please remember Reagan’s words of encouragement after his defeat in 1976:

“The cause goes on. Don't get cynical because look at yourselves and what you were willing to do, and recognize that there are millions and millions of Americans out there that want what you want, that want it to be that way, that want it to be a shining city on a hill.” The cause goes on. ("Shining city on a hill"? I have been to Wasilla, it is more like an "un-flushed turd in a bowl".)

- Sarah Palin

You know this is the upside of crazy. No matter how much reality refuses to bend to your will you still have the voices in your head to tell you that you done good.