Haven't seen this brought up yet, so: Anti-incumbent fever, baby!

Sleestax beats the mummy king!

Mini-Ron Paul takes Kentucky!

Incumbent R Senator ousted in Utah!

There's probably more, but these three are enough. Especially the defeat of Bennett; how often does a sitting Senator get taken down in his own party's primary? Not often, not often.

There's a hardcore anti-incumbent mood out there, and I have no idea what it portends. Here's what the Canadians think (they can't seem to get past the Tea Party angle, which I believe sells this phenomenon short):

“We’ve come to take our government back.”

Those triumphant words from Rand Paul, a Tea Party candidate who trounced his Republican rival in a Kentucky primary Tuesday night, might seem aimed primarily at Democrats, given they control both the White House and Congress.

But Rand’s verbal smackdown of establishment politics is making Republicans equally nervous about the mid-term elections looming in November while a bout of anti-incumbent fever continues to sweep the United States.

Mitch McConnell, the Senate minority leader, backed Rand’s rival, Kentucky lawmaker Trey Grayson, as did other top Republicans — former vice-president Dick Cheney among them. Tea Party guiding light Sarah Palin, meantime, supported Paul, an eye doctor who’s the son of one-time Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.

“It suggests real trouble for both parties, but Tea Party candidates are going to win in traditionally Republican districts, and then they’ll be in the Republican caucus in the Senate,” Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University, said Wednesday.

I disagree. You can't look at the victory of the Sleestax as any sort of Tea Party endorsement. There's something else going on. Thoughts?