@Graham: That’s not irony, Graham; that’s delicious irony. Of course liberals have never been particularly constrained by integrity and principle; they change the rules to suit their circumstances without even the pretense of consistency. It’s just fun when it comes back to bite ’em in the tuckus.

The reason they had to have a special election at this point was that the Democrats were worried back in 2004 that John Kerry might become President.

I am sure you were worried as well.

And to prevent Mitt Romney imposing a Republican Senator, the Democrats came up with the scheme that there had to be a special election quickly- rather than waiting till the next set of Congressional elections.

The irony is that something brought in to prevent a Republican becoming Senator has led to the good people of Massachusetts electing a Republican Senator!