There's a line from Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost, after Lucifer falls into the pit, that summarizes the predicament of Democrats in Arizona.

"Fall'n Cherub," the Dark Prince tells a cohort, "to be weak is miserable, doing or suffering."

Hard on the heels of Tuesday's Election Day massacre for the Democrats, left-leaners in this state began spouting their familiar, insipid excuses for losing; the ones I've heard following every statewide election in recent memory.