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Dem primary returns map out moonbats
By Howie Carr | Sunday, February 10, 2008 |
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If you have ever wondered whether or not you live in a moonbat town, the answer is now available. Just look at a map of the Democratic primary returns last Tuesday, and you will know.

Oh sure, there’s an exception here or there. Politically Correct Arlington, for example, went for Hillary, but there were extenuating circumstances - a race for an open state rep’s seat. The Herald-endorsed candidate clipped the limousine liberal endorsed by the Globe, so of course Obama narrowly lost the town as well.

Statewide, though, almost every municipality ran true to form. And given Deval Patrick’s landslide 15 months ago, Barack Obama’s measly 41 percent is the best indication yet that “Hope and Opportunity” may be jumping the shark in Massachusetts.

If “Deval & Obama” were a Broadway play trying out in Boston, you’d have to say the first act is fine. You know, the one that ends on election night 2006 with everyone chanting, “Yes we can!” But there’s a problem with Act Two, after the inauguration. Nothing happens.

There’s no dramatic tension, only buyer’s remorse. It doesn’t work, either as entertainment or government. As they say in the theater, “the book” needs to be rewritten.

Let’s look at Tuesday’s map. Boston and points west were Obama-land. By their trust funds ye shall know them. But right in the middle is a huge chunk of Hillary real estate.

That would be blue-collar Waltham. And right next door, also going for Clinton, is Watertown, a “mixed community,” as it were, with moonbats east of the square, and working people west. It’s the difference between George Bachrach and Marilyn Devaney. But Rep. Rachel Kaprelian needed to get old-timers to the polls to put stickers on the ballot to re-elect her to the Democratic State Committee. Sorry, moonbats don’t do stickers. They also don’t do the state committee.

House Speaker Sal DiMasi has been tormented of late by his majority leader, John Rogers of Norwood, who has been campaigning for Sal’s job. Sal was with Hillary, so Rogers went P.C. and endorsed Barack. Rogers’ constituents in Norwood promptly voted for Hillary, 3886-1776. Rogers had better hope he can count heads better in the House Democratic caucus than he does in his hometown.

Down on the South Coast, I see one forlorn Barack barracks, Marion. That’s where Geraldo Rivera has his summer home. On the South Shore, Barack took two towns, Deluxebury and Cohasset. You are not surprised. And not for nothing are neighboring Dover (56 percent Obama) and Sherborn (61 percent) a regional school district with a “Peace Abbey.”

Then there are the bucolic little college and prep-school towns. The higher the tuition, the higher Barack’s percentage: Williamstown, Groton, Deerfield. In preppy Andover, where the Salvation Army bell ringers were silenced by moonbat Scrooges last Christmas, Barack won 50-48. Next door in Tewksbury, where guys with pickup trucks are on the road at 5:30 a.m., Hillary won 66-30.

Percentage-wise, Hillary’s biggest margin came from Fall River. Could it possibly be related to another special election for state rep that featured convicted gamblers and at least one other candidate who had been named but not indicted in a Mob gaming probe? Nothing like a battle of the bookies to generate a monster turnout in Fall River.

Final results in Fall River. Hillary: 12,544, Obama 3,120.

The bottom line from Super Tuesday is that primaries are tribal warfare, between tribes and clans. And the normal-people tribe here is still larger than in the moonbat mob, the 2006 election results notwithstanding. These results could be the first stirrings of a backlash, however muted, against Yes-We-Can and gutting the CORI laws and peddling judgeships to the highest bidders and coddling $115,000-a-year perverts.

In 1992, Massachusetts threw out 20 percent of its Democratic Congressional delegation. In 1994, the rest of the country followed suit. In 2006, this state anticipated the Barack boom by electing Deval Patrick.

On Tuesday, the state bucked the national Obama trend. Is it possible we may have predicted the coming 2010 backlash?
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