Reply #131: TRUE! To say it's beyond remarkable is indeed not enough.

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This was supposed to be the proverbial cake walk for the bad guys against an unknown woman whose name they probably can't spell. They still outspent her by huge margins. Fantastic! That's money that's no longer in their pockets. I always find myself wandering back over to glee about the huge checks that some people wrote and all those big chunks of money that aren't in their accounts or earning them huge tax-free interest or some such advantage anymore.

Granted people like the koch brothers won't feel it at all, except in their gigantic bruised egos. But perhaps to someone else who anted up on this, it'll mean the difference between contributing to the next candidate, or contributing AS MUCH to the next candidate as previously planned - or NOT doing so. Maybe they're budgeting for the rest of the year and realize they won't be able to give 1,200 dollars - it may only be a thousand dollars. Or maybe they'll only be able to spare $800. Yeah, sure, the game's really on next year but it's THIS year when candidates and wannabes start amassing war chests, to prove how viable they are. It's like they're all taking penis-enhancers now to prance around and preen their newly-fancied-up feathers. And maybe some candidates and/or wannabes won't get as much of that enhancement now.

Defeat scares some people. It knocks the wind out of the lungs and some people stand up again in defiance and others just lay there depressed and defeated. There are some people who are gonna get scared off. Maybe a little. Maybe more than a little. It won't be many at least for starters, but there will be some. You know how discouraged you get when things don't go well for America because the bad guys gain more power. They do, too. And we should capitalize on that.

You never know. The wannabe who MIGHT be able to amount to something if only he or she could build up enough of a war chest or gain enough financing to hire enough people and to get enough commercials on the air - MIGHT actually be rendered stillborn as a viable candidate, now OR in later years, with the kind of chill that could set in, starting with this victory.

The more and bigger a crisis of confidence we can engender among the bad guys and their ill-informed and gullible followers with a good break like this, the better.