I posted the words of Dean Barnett on my blog, Curt:

Let’s be sure to comport ourselves with dignity and class right now. No shrieks of foulplay, no whining. There’s no crying in politics, at least not in public. Let’s remember what we want to do more than anything else - better our country. Sore loser antics won’t help, and neither will slagging on our countrymen for not seeing things the way we did. We didn’t make the sale, and that falls on us.

Losing is part of politics. Part of the Republican Party has forgotten that the past six years. Although it might be hard to see tonight, we can be a better party and a better country because of this setback.

It’s one battle lost. Time to learn from our mistakes and make sure the next 2 years works toward recovering a conservative majority and Presidency.

Will they learn a lesson from all this?

I hope so, but I won’t be surprised if they don’t.