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Damn Right, I got the Browns, er, Blues!
Author: clintster    Date: 01/20/2010 13:24:36

Truth be told, I had another blog ready to post this morning. It was in the can and ready to be released. However, as I watched, heard and read the news on the Massachusetts senate race, I felt more and more that I had to change course and address this.

So Scott Brown is now a US Senator (elect). To be honest, I have several emotions running through my mind right now. The first, naturally, is sadness. Seeing a seat that had been held for so long by Ted Kennedy go to someone who seems to stand against everything he stood for is, to be honest, more than a little disheartening.

I am also feeling, if I may be honest, a good bit of anger. I think that Martha Coakley was a poor choice to carry the Democratic banner onto this special election. She was prickly, acerbic and just seemed like she felt the seat was hers for the taking. The first two qualities may serve her well as Massachusetts' attorney general, but all three qualities just don't make for a good Senatorial candidate, at least on the Democratic side. It also didn't help that she said Curt Schilling was a Yankees fan. She corrected herself, but still the damage was done, and she joins Rudy 911 on the Group W bench of candidates done in by baseball.

Strangely enough, at this moment, I also feel hope. Since the election of President Obama, and especially since the confirmation of Al Franken as senator, it seems that the Democratic leadership has been content to rest on the laurels of their supermajority. It's as if they expected the Republicans to see those 60 votes and back down from any debate over health care, defense, economic stimulus, etc.

This has not been the case. If anything, it seems to have made the GOP even more determined to retake what they once had. Now is the time for Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the party to realize that there is a chance that we could lose control of Congress in 2010. We have to fight harder now to get the things that will help our nation, but as long as we fight, that will ultimately be what keeps the independent and moderate voters coming to the "D" table.

Hopefully, this will also be a moment for everyone to realize that in the long run, Scott Brown is only in for a short term. His fill-in term ends in 2012, and in that time he has to stand up for the values of Massachusetts voters. If he does that, he may be called a RINO by poutraged teabaggers and face a primary challenge against a "real" conservative Republican. If he goes along with teabagger philosophy (if there is such a thing), he will risk alienating the Massachusettians who still consider themselves Democrats but voted for him for whatever reasons. In any event, even if he came away the victor, Sen-elect Brown may soon wish he had been the one to refuse to stand outside Fenway to shake hands.

Take heart, 4Fers!
VIGILANCE!
 

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