In order to celebrate this week's Republican defeat in New York's 26th Congressional District -- which of course had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH MEDICARE, and I know that because John Boehner said so, between sobs -- I launched a hashtag on Twitter called #RepublicanExcusesForLosingNY26. Below are my tweets on this worthy topic. I invite anyone with a Twitter account to offer their own contributions to the genre. Those without Twitter accounts can just add a comment to this diary.
#RepublicanExcusesForLosingNY26
"All our voters were raptured over the weekend."
"The Governor vetoed our bronze bust voter ID bill."
"We lost because a third party candidate split our base among old people who think they’ve lived too long."
"Ballot box stuffing by hordes of undocumented Canadians."
"For some reason, no one was impressed by the Ryan Plan’s coverage of leeches and copper bracelets."
"Democrats pulled that underhanded liberal trick of viciously attacking their opponents with the facts."
"Somehow our slogan 'We’ll protect YOUR Medicare, but your kids are screwed' never really caught on."
"The voters must have confused Assemblywoman Jane Corwin with Professor Irwin Corey."
"We COULD have gotten the voters to knowingly swallow rat poison if only we'd marketed it more effectively."
"Hey, Lincoln said you can fool all of the people some of the time. We thought this was one of those times."
"That damn hacker we hired gave us the wrong password for the Diebold ma… um, never mind."
"The Supreme Court gave the rich unlimited campaign spending – we should have asked for unlimited votes."
"Actually, we don’t know exactly why we lost, but we’re sure it has something to do with gay marriage."
"The proposal of the GOP as a percentage of the GDP as estimated by the CBO is… say, did we mention that the president is Kenyan?"
--Impolitics