The Scott Brown Victory

The dust has somewhat settled on the Bay State.  Martha Coakley will go back to being the Attorney General and Scott Brown will soon be heading to DC to be sworn in as Massachusetts' newest Senator.   It's been fun watching all the heads explode on the left trying to spin Coakley's loss. 

I've been reading a few articles and listening to the radio and just shaking my head at all of the twisting and turning.  Here is a partial list of excuses I've actually either heard or read:

• She lost because she's a woman
• She lost because Mass. Voters are now racists.
• She lost because she ran a bad campaign.
• She lost because she didn't get enough help from the White House.
• She lost because she was a bad candidate.
• She lost because the Republicans stole it.

There might be some truth to some of that.  She might have been a bad candidate or ran a bad campaign, but no one thought she had to be much of a candidate or even run much of a campaign.  After all, she was running for the "Ted Kennedy" seat.  That seat is Democrat property.  All she should have had to do was show up at a few fund raisers, say a few of the right words and she would be elected by a twenty plus margin if she had an opponent. 

The real reason (and most of the politicians are smart enough to know) is that people have had enough.  The majority of the people in this country (including those in Massachusetts) are against the sort of health care reform coming out of the swamps of foggy bottom.  They see it for what it is:  An expensive, pork-laden ball of crap that will not reform the current system.  They see the current Congress and President as ramming things down their collective throat that they don't want to swallow.  They don't want cap and trade.  The wheels have pretty much come off the Climate Change train here of late and people aren't ready to have to ante up a few more thousand a year in taxes with money they don't have for a bill that will have absolutely no effect on the temperature outside.  They don't want this health care bill because it's costly and does nothing and in the end, it will cost them a lot more and they will get less.

I have a newsflash for the elected elite:  We see the crao you are doing and we are tired of it.

Most pols are looking real hard at what happened in Massachusetts.  If it can happen to the much vaunted and venerated Kennedy seat, how safe is theirs?

VW

Comments

[BobF]

Howard Dean blamed Bush.

http://antzinpantz.com/kns/?p=20306#comments

[JMK]

"If it can happen to the much vaunted and venerated Kennedy seat, how safe is theirs?" (Violence Worker)

Let's hope that's the message they take from this.

The political class has been so insular, so removed from the regular Americans they claim to represent, for so long that at this juncture, many of them can often honestly and easily be mistaken for a tyrannical foreign entity.