I am going to try to avoid political sites for now-thanks for your posts raccoon and also I want to give a shout out to the savage list~!
take care all :)
MaryLou1
OK let’s wrap this thing up. So damn depressed on how things turned out. I won’t say I’ll give up following politics but last night really hurt and I may be more than a little less intense in talking politics online and listening to talkradio. Why bother, is this is the result? Won’t give it up totally but I am a lot less enthusiastic about it all.
Here’s Howie’s column. If you want to keep going on this special thread, fine but maybe will just go back to the regular Howie ping thread after this.
Bay States voters got faked out way too easily
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, November 7, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Photo by John Wilcox
Scott Brown never had a chance.
Its amazing. This guy is probably the best retail politician in the state. He worked his way up the greasy pole, from assessor to selectman to state rep to state senator to U.S. senator.
Hes for us, his yard signs said. They might as well have said, Hes one of us.
But all of it counted for nothing. He couldnt beat the machine.
Anything is possible, Brown was saying last night in his concession speech, there are no obstacles you cant overcome, and defeat is only temporary.
Unless youre a Republican in Massachusetts.
Scott Brown may be the last Republican to win a statewide fight in Massachusetts for a very long time. He caught the machine flat-footed in January 2010 when he out-hustled Martha Coakley and stole the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held all those years.
And since then, the Democrats havent lost a single statewide fight.
Despite his upbeat concession, Brown hated losing to the fake Indian. In most states, she would have been toast once it was discovered that shed claimed, without a scintilla of evidence, that she was one-32nd Cherokee.
For the first 37 years of her life, she was white, and going nowhere. Then she decided to begin checking the box, and within nine years shed scored two Ivy League law professorships. And then she became white again Okie to her toes, as she put it.
Phony to her toes is more like it.
Shes not from here, Brown moaned last Friday from his Victory Bus.
She thought western Massachusetts had a seacoast. She didnt think she had to register as a lawyer. She demanded higher taxes on everyone, but refused to pay herself at the states voluntary higher rate. She said she owned no stocks, only mutual funds. She bragged that shed provided the intellectual foundations of the wretched Occupy movement.
And nothing stuck. Being a Democrat means never having to say youre sorry.
The Washington Democrats raised $40 million for her, and put the unions at her beck and call. Teamsters Local 25 was once named in a presidential report on organized crime as pretty much a wholly owned subsidiary of the Winter Hill Gang. This year Local 25 had a large canvas sign on its wall in Charlestown endorsing Elizabeth Warren.
What does Brown do next? Probably run for governor in 2014. Who knows, maybe hes got a chance.
Im going to sleep very very, very well tonight, he said. And so will the state Republican Party. For a very, very, very long time.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1061172924