Quote of the Day

"I certainly think that bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view."—Indiana's new Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock.

This is what we're dealing with.

MSNBC Host Chuck Todd: All right, well, as you know, Senator Lugar put out a very lengthy statement—a manifesto of sorts—and he endorses you, uh, but he does so it seems like reluctantly, when he says, "I want him to be a good senator. But that will require him to revise his stated goal of bringing more partisanship to Washington." Let me just stop there: You have said that there needs to be more partisanship in Washington. How do you square that with legislating?

GOP Candidate Richard Mourdock: Well, what I've said is I certainly think that bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view. We entered this campaign wanting to be a voice, and hoping to give more of a national voice, to the idea that Republicans, and more specifically conservatives, would be in the majority of the United States Senate, and the House, and hopefully that we have a Republican in the White House. If we do that, bipartisanship means they have to come our way. If we're successful in getting the numbers, then we will work toward that. You know, I want to confront not so much people as the issues that are really out there, that are causing us to be in the economic crisis we're in.

Well, that sounds totally reasonable. Which is why the Republicans are totally "going the Democrats' way" while they've got the majority—their firm principle of deferring to the winners and not being obstructionist wankers. Ahem.

[Via BuzzFeed.]