Sink concedes, offers advice

I don't think I'd call the speech or her subsequent interaction with the press gracious:



Sink's advice to Scott, to focus on achieving unity with those who did not support him, provides a bit of a contrast with President Obama's philosophy of rule expressed not long after he took office:

"I won."


Aside from the video, the St. Petersburg Times published a story about Scott's victory speech and Sink's concession.  The Times' story included one of those bits I love--a bit of liberal opinion presented as factual common knowledge:

Scott, spending $73 million on his campaign and promising to bring new jobs to the state, capitalized on the economic anxiety and anti-incumbent sentiment embodied by the tea party, a movement he once helped finance with a campaign-style group that fought President Barack Obama's health care changes.

The tea party embodies the sentiments of economic anxiety (fear) and anti-incumbent sentiment (anger).  Objective fact!  The tea party folks are angry and scared.  The Times has measured it and dutifully reported its objective findings to its "in the know" readers, who can add it to their store of knowledge if they didn't get the message already.

Maybe the tea party just doesn't agree with using government (deficit) spending and government employment to address economic woes?

Nah, that couldn't be it.  They're just skeered and angry.  We see that all the time with uneducated yokels.  Or something.