By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist

You can't keep Sarah Palin down. Today she's celebrating victories by GOP gubernatorial candidates in Virginia and New Jersey.

But she's downplaying the loss of Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate she had hoped to push to victory over Republican and Democratic candidates in a New York congressional race. (The Democrat won.)

From Palin:

"Of course, the real victors in this election are the ordinary men and women who voted for positive change and a return to fiscal sanity. Your voices have been heard."

Of Hoffman's loss -- predictable given his lack of knowledge about most issues he was talking about on the campaign trail -- Palin brushed that aside.

She claimed the 2010 elections would be about the economy -- "on the need for fiscal restraint, smaller government, and policies that encourage jobs."

And she ended by telling her many ultra-conservative followers to remember Ronald Reagan’s words after he lost the GOP presidential nomination to then-President Gerald Ford in 1976:

The cause goes on. Don't get cynical because look at yourselves and what you were willing to do, and recognize that there are millions and millions of Americans out there that want what you want, that want it to be that way, that want it to be a shining city on a hill.

Ah, yes, that "shining city on the hill line." It gets Republicans every time.