Posted on 01/20/2010 5:54:40 AM PST by Justaham
BOSTON — Special elections come and go. And the party that wins the White House one year ordinarily loses seats in the next Congressional election that comes along.
But what happened in Massachusetts on Tuesday was no ordinary special election.
Scott Brown, a Republican state senator for only five years, shocked and arguably humiliated the White House and the Democratic Party establishment by defeating Martha Coakley in the race for a United States Senate seat. He did it one day short of a year after President Obama stood on the steps of the United States Capitol, looking across a mass of faces that celebrated the potential of his presidency.
As a result, Mr. Obama will spend the first anniversary of his inauguration watching Democrats tangle in an unseemly quarrel over who lost Massachusetts — Ms. Coakley’s pollster, Celinda Lake, called the Huffington Post four hours before the polls closed to blame Democratic leaders in Washington — and contemplating a political landscape that has been thoroughly upended in the course of only 10 days.
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imo...and I don’t claim to be a great thinker on any of these things. David Gergen really energized the campaign when he accused Sen Brown of using the Kennedy seat to defeat needed health-care reform.
Unfortunately for the ... ‘must sit down to pee’... David Gergan, Sen Brown was not just another pretty face and unlike former Sen Kennedy, Brown can think on his feet.
GOP strategist Alex Vogel gets it;
"What the Brown success tells me is that the electorate did not leave the Bush years liberalized; they left angry with bad and ineffective government."
Kudos to Alex Vogel.
But will Steele and the GOP listen?
I watched the MessNBC coverage of last nights election on purpose see Rachel Madcows reaction. It was priceless. Well worth the misery of watching that despicable and miserable network. Brown ran a smart race!
Uh, I'm thinking no.
New directions, new leadership. We need an RNC that reflects and *supports* the conservative/tea party principles.
We don't have that right now.
We'll see.
If Scott Brown gives the rebuttal to osamaobama giving the State of the Union speech next week, maybe, just maybe, the stupid party is beginning to listen to us.
If they have some hack, like grahamnesty, or mcpain, then we will surely know that they are tone deaf.
Good point. This is something to look for.
Look what has happened in the past year. The deficit has quadrupled, unemployment is over 10% and shows no sign of going down, Congress is shoving socialized health care down our throats and US security was defeated by an underwear bomber. The American people are being forced into Obama socialism and they are pissed.
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