Earthquakes

The most single important thing in the news is the earthquake in Haiti.  I'm not telling you anything new when I say that this is a terrible disaster and I urge you to give to a reputable charity involved in relief efforts there.

There is a second earthquake.  Not the kind that wrecks real estate and takes human life, but the political kind.  The kind where machine politicians and entrenched corruptocrats are the ones that suffer the damage.  The kind where the anticipated outcome is all but perfunctory and the candidate is just going through the motions until the coronation and is now in real danger.  It's happening in one of the most reliable of Democrat strongholds.  There is a political earthquake of biblical proportions - at least 9.3 - on the political scale happening in Massachusetts that will be felt throughout the nation.  In most polls, the Republican Scott Brown is either leading the Democrat Martha Coakley or outright beating her.

The implications of this go way beyond the borders of the Bay State even if Brown loses by a slim margin.  If a particular candidate can't muster at least a 55% better showing in what is supposed to be a safe seat, then you have to know that candidates in much weaker states and districts are even more at risk. 

Don't think that they aren't paying attention either.  The Democrats are trying to down play this by saying that Coakley didn't run a good campaign or that she wasn't a good candidate.  Good luck with that.

And here's to a Scott Brown victory.

VW

Comments

[rusty]

So if Brown wins will he pose naked for National Review?

Gotta love that family values party!

[John Hampton]

Wow, you'd think that liberals would appreciate that little indiscretion of his past involvment with an arguably liberal publication (30 years ago when he was 22 years old). Somehow, it just doesn't seem quite as bad as Obama snorting cocaine (which probably means he smoked crack, too).

[Rusty]

We do appreciate it. It's probably why he's so popular in such a liberal state! Who is saying it's bad? Oh, I get it, you're adding in your own thoughts, attributing them to liberals and then stating it as fact. SOP

[BobF]

Wow, he poses for a magazine 30 years ago and liberals want to hold it against him. It's not like he was doing drugs or protesting his country on foreign soil.

I'm wondering if the people of Massachusetts are finally waking up. After all, many of them work and have to be sick and tired of being taxed to death. Kennedy always got the sympathy vote and Democrats are trying to resurrect it again but it may not work. Brown's statement of it being the People's Seat and not Kennedy's Seat may have opened a lot of eyes.