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MartiniMan
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Reflections on Brown Win
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1/19/2010 10:35:14 PM
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First of all, Brown ran a nearly flawless campaign and Coakley ran an awful campaign - despite that in any ordinary year she would have still won.
Second, Obama once again showed his naivete and hubris by coming to Mass over the weekend. I really believe he thought he could pull this out simply by the force of his personality when it was obvious from internal polls on both sides and external polls that Brown was going to win - I would say he won't make that mistake again but I said that with the Olympics, and then I said that with Deeds in Virginia and now I am not going to say that with Coakley in Mass. He will continue on his narcissistic path because he spends all day reading his own press releases....er, um, I mean articles about him in the dinosaur government media.
Third, this is in fact a repudiation of the Obama/Reid/Pelosi troika regardless of what the spinners on the left say and are going to say over the coming weeks. Brown ran squarely against Obama's policies and not against Coakley per se (other than she would be another vote for Obama). The voters of Mass were told that if they did not vote for Coakley Obamacare was dead. They voted for Brown because they want it dead and amazingly, because a plurality of those polled in Mass recently said Obama was too liberal....
Fourth, it is the ultimate irony that Ted Kennedy's former seat may be the undoing of his signature, long-term legislative wet dream of universal government health care. God indeed has a sense of humor and my only hope is that Uncle Teddy can see this undoing.
Fifth, this may actually in the long run benefit Dems electorally but it will be worth it. They can now vote for Obamacare to appease their base and when it is defeated (if they don't resort to procedural shenanigans) they can blame Republicans while at the same time wiping the sweat off their brow and saying, "Whew, that was close". If they resort to shenanigans to jam Obamacare through it will be a disaster for them as a party.
Finally, it will be fun watching the finger pointing after this one on all sides. One thing you can say about Bush, he at least had the sense to call the 2006 results what they were, an old fashioned butt whooping. I doubt Obama has either the grace or the humility to do anything comparable. We are going to hear more bluster out of the WH while Dems in the House and Senate facing 2010 elections are going to be in near panic mode. They can't imagine having to work for a living again.
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