Maybe he should have gathered more armies

by Dave Weigel

Rick Barber -- the man who cut three of the most dizzingly amusing YouTube ads of the cycle -- will not be heading to Congress. He badly lost last night's runoff in his Alabama district, falling by 22 points to Montgomery City Councilwoman Martha Roby, who pitted the support of the Republican establishment against Barber's aggressive courting of tea parties.

There is a lesson here, as well as an excuse to post Barber's best video. It's easy to look at a loss like this and...