Blast From The Past

''If you win them, they're very important,'' said Gov. Don Sundquist of Tennessee, a Republican. ''If you don't, you say they're not.''

That was from an article written shortly before Democrats won the Governorships of Virginia and New Jersey back in 2001...at a time when Bush's approval ratings were somewhere in the 70s, and Republicans managed to go on to pick up House and Senate seats in next year's mid-terms.

See Also: Lawrence O'Donnell pissing in Michael Steele's cheerios.