Hurray for the center Right... boo on the far Right

As I'm ready to go to bed here, some things seem obvious to me and one of those things is that nominating candidates who are too far Right is generally a losing proposition. Christine O'Donnell lost, I just heard that Sharon Angle is projected to have lost. Tom Tancredo lost the governor's race here in Colorado. In contrast, though Kirk won the Senate race in Illinois. Now Kirk is a center right guy... maybe even a liberal Republican, but he will vote with the Republicans more often than he will with the Dems and I will take him any day of the week over someone like Chris Coons from Delaware. Republican voters had better wise up for 2012 and not nominate a wingnut like Sarah Palin because she will inevitably share Christine O'Donnell's fate whereas a Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty stands a good shot at winning.