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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	You are onto something
	Date:	1/20/2010 8:30:29 PM

What clouds this discussion is the use of Democrat and Republican as if that provides a meaningful description. It really doesn't because what we are really trying to grasp is the difference between statists like Obama/Reid/Pelosi and those opposed to statists like Scott Brown.

What is 100% clear is that Scott Brown ran on a platform of smaller federal government, restoring private sector job growth and a strong national defense. He is mostly a social moderate and part of his success was that social issues are very far from the minds of voters right now.

I have long argued that despite the prognostications from the left over 2006/2008, the country is still center right and based on the Mass results maybe more so than I thought. The point here is that for the last several years the government media and moderate Republicans have been telling us that the era of Reagan was over, that we just needed to be more like Dems, etc. Brown, Christie and McDonnell could indeed attract Reagan Democrats if they ran on the right platform.