Losing their Ossoff

The San Francisco Chronicle writes: “After a devastating loss in an extensively — and expensively — targeted Georgia congressional race Tuesday, Democrats erupted in an explosion of finger pointing and second-guessing, blaming the defeat on party leaders, an inexperienced candidate and an uninspiring message.”

One bold Congressman even opined: “I think you’d have to be an idiot to think we could win the House with Pelosi at the top.”

That’s a pretty gloomy, given that just a few months ago the Washington Post said the race “is effectively serving as a beta test for the Democratic theory of 2018 and beyond.” Meaning: GOP-held suburban districts like those in Southern California the Democratic Party has boasted are in play.

Moving forward, we can only hope they demonstrate the same ineptitude in these races as they have in Georgia.

“Democrats’ bold claims to compete for GOP-held suburban seats blew up in their faces in Georgia. Like Republicans have been saying all along, our candidates are battle-tested with individual identities fitting their districts; running cookie-cutter, nationalized campaigns against them won’t cut it.” -NRCC Spokesman Jack Pandol