Last night Rachel Maddow provided America with another public service announcement. She pointed out to Americans, to Democrats, that the way to win the mid-term elections and to keep the extreme Tea Party-GOP'ers from taking over Washington, is for Democrats to stand on the principles that make Democrats different from Republicans, and that those Democrats who are doing so are making gains among the electorate. See the video.

These mid-terms offer a real choice. The Tea Partiers, backed by unlimited corporate funding, hiding behind the smoke of slick attack ads, and an army of highly paid consultants, are different from the GOP'ers whom have sought office in the past. This Tea Party crowd is very extreme.

The right wing billionaires, the big corporate guys and gals, and the money interests see their chance to turn America back to the days of the robber barons, when there were no regulation, no consumer protection, no job security for employees, no retirement funds for employees, no health benefits for workers, and when the business of America was to serve big business. It is by design that all the Tea Party candidates are speaking from the same talking points. It is a well-financed attempt to take over of the government. When Democrats point this out and break through the smoke screen, the use of fear and hate by the well financed party of haters, the Democrats make headway.

Democrats need to remind voters what the stakes are. On the line are Social Security and Medicare. On the line are educational loans for students. On the line is keeping American jobs in America. On the line is the choice: whether America will be run to benefit the majority of Americans, who are working and middle class, or whether the government will become the exclusive tool of the right-wing corporate elite.