Hope For Change, 2010
By Mitch Berg
Special election day in Massachusetts. Most of the polls are showing Scott Brown with a commanding lead over Democrat Martha Coakley, who’s gone from (by some accounts) a 30 point lead in the fall to (by some others) a nine point deficit as of last night.
Has she run a tone-deaf race? Absolutely. Has she snatched defeat from the jaws of victory? It’s still possible she wins today – but the very thought of a Republican, even a Massachusetts Republican in the Romney mode, getting within 20 points of any Democrat above room temperature for “Ted Kennedy’s seat” is a moral victory for the GOP.
Some say “he’s not a conservative Republican”. For starters, it’s Massachusetts; “conservative” means different things in Massachusetts than it does in Wyoming – and I don’t think any rational person can say he’s running anywhere but to the right of, say, Susan Collins or Olympia Snowe, to say nothing of the hapless Dede Scozzafava. And he’s already vowed to vote conservative enough on the issues that matter for purposes of this special election – especially on killing off the Democrat supermajority in the Senate.
Make no mistake; the Dems are going to call in the clans on this one. The SEIU and ACORN have been flooding the state with workers. You can expect voter intimidation, a la Philadelphia. You can expect the usual crowd of media hamsters to try to shame people with the freshly-sainted memory of Ted Kennedy.
But so far, 2010 is looking like a very good year.
I’ll get back to you tonight.
January 19th, 2010 at 9:31 am
One very interesting aspect…..the race became close so late in the campaign, that the Democrats didn’t have time to commit absentee voter fraud.
January 19th, 2010 at 9:43 am
“even a Massachusetts Republican in the Romney mode,”
with a lot of Romney help.
“Among the many Romney disciples running Brown’s campaign are Beth Myers, the campaign manager of Romney’s presidential run; Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney’s chief spokesman; Peter Flaherty, Romney’s “go-to-guy for conservatives”; and Rob Cole, Romney’s 2008 deputy chairman manager. Beth Lindstrom, another player in Romney World, is working as Brown’s campaign manager. ”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-17/mitt-romneys-man/full/
January 19th, 2010 at 10:37 am
You expect a decision to be announced tonight? They’re going to be counting and recounting ’em until they get the right answer, probably around Labor Day.
January 19th, 2010 at 11:19 am
If Brown wins, it will be big news, even with the vast anti-incumbancy sentiment AND with the fact that Massechusettes already has a very good state run government health care plan, so part of the issue is they don’t see why they should pay to bail out the rest of the country. It’s an irony of extreme magnitude, a tea-bagger Republican is going to win because the state with the most socialized medical program in the country has no interest paying for the rest of the country – apparently a good liberal socialized program is PREFERABLE to private programs, but bailing out idiots, isn’t.
BTW – you may have missed this – and I don’t mean to hijack the conversation – but a couple years back you asserted that the side-stepping of FISA wasn’t illegal and no one broke the law…
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/19/politics/washingtonpost/main6114978.shtml?tag=stack
Perhaps you can reply to this at some point – especially about your feelings regarding violating the rights of US citizens to be free from illegal search and siezure – I’m sure that’s of less significance than worries about ACORN.
January 19th, 2010 at 2:23 pm
and I don’t mean to hijack the conversation
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
*wipes tears*
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Lordy. I can’t imagine that being typed with a straight face.
January 19th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
Peevee, you made an unsubstantiated claim why Brown might win. You are WRONG. Just because you want it to be so does not make it so.
BTW, Peni, your obsession with sucking scrotums is a bit much, please take it to your PenisBlog along with your BDS.
January 19th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
If Brown wins, it will be big news, even with the vast anti-incumbancy sentiment AND with the fact that Massechusettes already has a very good state run government health care plan, so part of the issue is they don’t see why they should pay to bail out the rest of the country.
And from there, it’s only a very short step for everyone else to realize that there’s no good reason to destroy our entire healthcare system to provide care for 14 million people that can be much more efficiently covered by smaller, more-focused plans.
It’s an irony of extreme magnitude, a tea-bagger Republican is going to win because the state with the most socialized medical program in the country has no interest paying for the rest of the country
Nothing ironic about it – even testicle-licking, semen-guzzling, strap-on-dildo-up-the-butt craving Democrats can act in englightened self-interest.
(If you’re going to use an X-rated name to describe my people, I think it’s only fair).
– apparently a good liberal socialized program is PREFERABLE to private programs, but bailing out idiots, isn’t.
Er, get back to us when you know the details of how Massachusetts’ system actually works. You’re missing a key detail.
BTW – you may have missed this – and I don’t mean to hijack the conversation…
…which seems to be an inevitable prelude to an attempt to hijack the conversation…
– but a couple years back you asserted that the side-stepping of FISA wasn’t illegal and no one broke the law…
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/19/politics/washingtonpost/main6114978.shtml?tag=stack
Perhaps you can reply to this at some point
Yep. The story you link has nothing to do with FISA or any surveillance program. It has to do with the FBI lying, strong-arming and glad-handing to get ahold of records they want. It’s the same kind of thing cops do all the time; “It’ll go a lot easier for you if you let me search your car”, “You didn’t specifically tell me NOT to come into your house and look around, so I figured you wouldn’t mind” and such.
– especially about your feelings regarding violating the rights of US citizens to be free from illegal search and siezure
Yep. The FBI should be sanctioned for this kind of activity. But again, the story you linked has nothing to do with national policy, and everything to do with the way cops at all levels try to short-circuit the Fourth Amendment.
– I’m sure that’s of less significance than worries about ACORN.
No, they’re about equal. If people lose confidence in their elections OR in the rule of law, democracy is cooked.
January 19th, 2010 at 4:16 pm
strap-on-dildo-up-the-butt
And here I had almost forgotten about “Plain Layne.”