Primaries... (Yaaaawn!)

Several primaries around the country have results in, most none-to-earth shattering:

In Pennsylvania, party-switcher Arlen Specter lost his senatorial primary to younger, hipper, more consistently Democratic Joe Sestak. (Not unexpected.)

The special election to fill former Rep. John Murtha's seat in Southwestern Pennsylvania was also won by a Democrat. (Sort of a surprise. Think the GOP was hoping for a pick-up here- but there's always the fall.)

In Arkansas, Senator Blanche Lincoln won her primary, beating off Lt. Governor Bill Halter, but it wasn't enough to avoid a runoff in three weeks. (This could get interesting.)

In Kentucky, Rand Paul (son of Ron Paul) won the Senatorial Primary, a stinging bitch-slap to mild manner coma inducing GOP Leader Mitch McConnell, who muscled out former Senator Jim Bunning and recruited the other dude in this race to run. While I haven't read much about the younger Paul, if he's anything like his Dad, he's OK by me. (I want more Libertarian Republicans concerned with shrinking our government and less Big-Government Republicans who express concern about where I may or may not put my penis. This is a good thing.)

There were a smattering of others I don't really care about... and all the primaries were sort of eclipsed by the news that Republican Congressman Mark Souder (IN) is resigning after admitting an affair and Democratic Senatorial Candidate Richard Blumenthal (CT) had a really bad case of foot in mouth disease after claiming he served in Vietnam. (To be fair, unlike many people this dude was actually in a uniform. Just nowhere near Vietnam- he didn't even leave the U.S.)

Throw all the bums out, that's what I say!