The Lesson Of The Massachusetts Senate Race

By Newt Gingrich.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich suggested today the Senate race spells troubled for Democrats.

"There are some things we do know about what's going on in Massachusetts - and they are all bad signs for President Obama and his party," he wrote in a newsletter to supporters today. "Even if Brown doesn't win, the election is a negative referendum on Democratic rule in Washington."

Understand what the problem the Democrats have here is.  Republicans like Gingrich are saying "even if you win, you're going to lose."  That's not it, that's the kind of idiocy one truly expects Gingrich to say.

The problem is the number of Democrats who believe him.  "You won the election!  This means you're doomed!"

This is why the Republicans are able to control our national discourse as the minority party in Washington, because the Democrats let them do it.

Here endeth the lesson.