by Smitty (h/t Instapundit)

U.S. Senate Candidate Tom Campbell, on Flashreport:

America’s national debt is an economic burden, a moral failing, and a foreign policy vulnerability. It’s the single most important problem we face, and that’s why I’m running for the US Senate.

The sheer dimension of the federal budget deficit, and debt, is almost beyond comprehension. We owe 12 trillion dollars. Our entire economy produces 14 trillion every year. So, we’ve now borrowed the value of almost an entire year’s production of every good and service by every worker in America. If we stopped borrowing today, and tried to pay back what we owe at the rate we’ve been paying it back, it would take 293 years.

Every child born in our country inherits a $40,000 obligation to pay back money her or his parents borrowed. That’s the moral issue. Parents should save to give something to their children. The federal government, however, has done the opposite. It has borrowed from our children, to buy favor with current voters. That’s immoral.

Godspeed, Mr. Campbell. May you send that [gerund] [noun] Boxer packing, with lots of bubble wrap.

by Smitty

VodkaPundit kneecapped the Sunday Chat shows, skillfully managing the need to cut the video before the election results were out.

Making the clip particularly link-worthy is his his reply to the whole “Tea Bagger” epithet. Those who’re constantly giving the Obama agenda a helping hand, opines Stephen Green, should be known as “Hand Jobbers”. A new low in neologisms, but I do not mean anything punny by the final syllable in that term. This is simply not that sort of blog.

We are here at the posh Park Plaza hotel in downtown Boston and — thanks to our friends with 73 Wire — we’re livestreaming via Internet:

Free TV : Ustream

UPDATE 11:30 p.m.: (Smitty) Stacy just called me again, basking in the glow, and offered shouts out to:

• Doug Hoffman in NY-23.  Stacy points out that Doug’s heroic, if Arthurian campaign, foiled by Dede le Fey at the last, helped pave the way for a different grail.  Doug got it in peoples’ minds that it wasn’t over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor the Left got the super-majority in the Senate.
• The Tea Party movement (which is basically anyone who’s ever done so much as honk a horn while driving by a protest).
• Michelle Malkin
• Nathan Cossey
• Barbara Espinoza
• Dan Collins, whose book arrived today.  I skimmed the first ~20 pages while at Hard Times for a salad.  Great stuff.  Give dead tree offerings to the blog gawdz.
• Da Tech Guy, who should no doubt write a book about tech guys getting dragged into political scenes, before I do.

UPDATE 10:06 p.m.: (Smitty) Stacy updates us via cel phone: Stacy McCain is out on the balcony at the HQ. 11+ network satellite trucks are visible in the street. When the Coakley concession was announced, the crowed chanted: “Kerry next!” Every Mass. Republican is in the building, enjoying the Martha Gras. This makes up for the heartbreaking NY-23 loss. WIFI is as functional in the building as this blog has been at various points the last couple of days. In other words, it’s broken. Ali Akbar of 73wire is a dead man, as he was supposed to have made the network arrangements. (The question is whether Smitty can make good his escape while Ali becomes acquainted with the underside of the bus.) RSM: “If Scott Brown can win this, anything is possible.” Ace of Spades is on scene, and has given Stacy vanilla pudding. AoS: “I’ve really got to have a cigarette” Other right-blogospheric all-stars present:

• Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs
• Dan Collins, POWIP
• Da Tech Guy
• Quinn from Red Mass. Group
• Michael C. Moynihan, Reason Magazine
• Dave Weigel, The Washington Independent
• Kerry Picket

One other aside, as noted by Athens Runaway:

Coakley has hired Al Franken’s old fraud campaign lawyer, Mark Elias. Elias was hired by Franken, and Franken’s recount mysteriously found ballots in the back of cars, and other random places… after the election was well over.

We should always pray for a margin significant enough to minimize shenanigans. UPDATE 7:55 p.m.: Five minutes before polls close, I’ve just talked to a spokesman for the Brown campaign — it looks good. Clearly, they feel like they’ve got a winner here. Also, Ace of Spades is in the house. UPDATE: Ayla Brown, Rule 5, video with a certain well-known blogger.

“Now, how would Hunter S. Thompson even know about such a substance [adrenochrome] or that you get it from Satanists? . . . They probably still do it, I would imagine. . . . High-level Illuminati and Satanists like to take DMT or other hallucinogens because they think they can communicate with entities in other dimensions . . . So it makes sense that these Illuminati, high-level Satanists would want to do that, since they’re ultimately questing after power . . .”
— Mark Dice of “The Resistance Manifesto”

This moron’s assertion that the late Hunter S. Thompson was the unofficial pornographer of the international conspiracy deserved an appropriate response:

Of course, they’re all in on it, you see? Hannity, O’Reilly, Limbaugh—conspirators sworn to maintain the secrecy of the powerful pederasts who RULE THE WORLD! And only Mark Dice is intelligent enough to penetrate their web of deceit and courageous enough to Tell America The Truth.

Read the rest of that. Apparently this dimwit Alex Jones wannabe is shrewd enough to understand one basic principle of journalism: You can’t libel the dead.

I pointed that out to Andy Warhol a few years ago during one of our Bohemian Grove get-togethers, while we were dining on raw human flesh and watching Ted Kennedy sodomize a goat . . .

Here with the 73Wire crew live from South Boston until . . . well, midnight, at least. . . .

UPDATE 12:42 a.m.: I’m told that, with more than 1,300 unique visitors, this was the largest audience for a 73Wire livestream EVAH!

Thanks to all our readers and Twitter friends for making this such a huge success. It’s now Election Day in Massachusetts. Time for two famous words:

LET’S ROLL!

We’ll see you online throughout the day and will be live from Scott Brown HQ in downtown Boston tonight.

It’s not official yet, but reliable sources close to Valu-Rite Vodka LLC inform me that their celebrity endorser Ace of Spades may be coming to Boston to cover the election Tuesday night.

Hobos of Beantown, you have been warned.