Laughable Sadness

Sully answers this question

I'd really like to hear what it is about Christine O'Donnell, or Sharron Angle, or any of these other candidates that sets them apart from decades of radical right-wing elected officials who came before them?

with incredible lameness:

I think what the tea-partiers would say is that they are for real.

This mythology that Tea Partiers are gonna get into DC and "fuck some shit up!!" because they're "real" is laughable.  How do we know this, you ask? Anybody remember the name Scott Brown? That's right, wasn't it only a few months ago that Scott Brown was gonna get to the Senate and change everything? Gee, what's happened since? Have you even heard his name once since then? Of course not. He's slipped very nicely into the warm, soothing bubble, very at home with the $14 tuna sandwiches and rounds of golf with hookers for caddies. I promise you Scott Brown will throw each and every Tea Partier that got him elected under the bus come 2013 to hold onto his job. Scott Brown will torch Fenway while sucking Derek Jeter's dick before he gives up his seat in the Senate. Hell, even someone as ambitiously intellectual as Barack Obama has allowed himself to sink comfortably into the default position of executive power Bush had set before him...and yet we're really supposed to believe that someone like Christine O'Donnell is going to make one bit of difference in DC? Really? Sharron Angle can't outwit the Arizona media, but she's going to waltz into DC and become the Congressional moving & shaking  LBJ of our day? Really?