No! We can't lose the man who summarized the Republican health care plan as 1) Don't get sick. 2) If you do get sick, die quickly.

Even if he can't unseat Reichert, it'd be fun to watch him try.

I think that publicity went to Alan Grayson's head, and that he started to do increasingly erratic things based on it.

I'd vote for him. But he'd have to fire the clown that did that ad comparing his opponent to the Taliban. It was a really stupid ad. I think that lost him the election.

Yes, Jon Stewart needs the aggravation.

Give him his own show on MSNBC!

First he has to find a Dem who wants to retire after this session, doesn't he?

@7, well, Jim McDermott will be 78 years old come the end of his current term...

He'll probably learn from his lessons, a once defeated candidate is a better politician in the long run.

@6 Co-hosting with Russ Feingold! Oh, can you just imagine how great that could be? But I'm sure even the barest smell of such awesomeness would get GE to kill the idea in its crib. Maybe Democracy Now! can be coaxed into expanding their line-up.

He has the best face in Democratic politics since Ted Kennedy or Tip O'Neill. Full cheeks, strong dimpled jaw but not quite lantern-jawed like Gerald Ford or John Tesh, a healthy honker, and that lovely double vertical furrow between the eyebrows even when he's amused. He'll get jowly like Nixon, but will remain twinkly-eyed rather than dour. Not Lurch-like (e.g. John Kerry).

rob! I think he already is jowly like Nixon. And that American flag tie is a comedy disaster. But his twin boys with their Pike-Pine hairdos are adorable as all get out. They make up for everything.

(And am I wrong, or do some of you darling commenters seem to be suggesting the smart move for Grayson would for some reason be to move to Washington State and go after Reichert or McDermott? Really?)

@12 - No, I don't actually think that would be a good idea, but it'd be fun to see an election where someone (besides Goldy) is calling Reichert out on his... Reichertness.

Look, I live in Bellevue. We don't get much excitement over here. Just give me this one thing.

MacCrocodile, I am arranging Grayson's move for you right now, and am having some malaria faxed over to Reichert just for fun.

@14 - Thanks, Gus. Make sure to poke holes in his crate so he can breathe. It's a long trip from Florida.

@16: You are this mad.

I love Alan Grayson, and I sent him a small contribution right after his "die quickly" tirade on the floor of the House, but in return I was slammed with (sometimes multiple) daily emails about this or that - reasonably important issues to be sure, but I would suggest to his people that a monthly or bi-weekly update might be more effective than a shitload of emails.

It's my understanding that the Taliban Dan thing was a response to something said out of context by his opponent. That was indeed a strategic error, but I have no doubt it was made because he didn't have all those slick, cheesy publicists that others do who can scan, filter, and put the appropriate spin on anything said or done - like the guy who beat him most assuredly had people saying, "Let's turn this guy into a buffoon."

You have to be a professional politician - and any shade of hypocrite - to stay in Congress these days.

"Not for overreaching, in this age of hand-wringing over big government and creeping “socialism,” or for ideological purism. Instead, while surveying the wreckage of the November elections that cost him his seat and looking to the Congressional term ahead, Mr. Grayson posits that many Democrats have not been acting Democratic enough."

No shit. We lost many of the best we had this past election.