Nothing in politics is certain as Hillary Clinton can attest to that, so when you have a candidate UTB’d* by liberal commentators before the election results are in, you know they’ve failed miserably: “from December 19th when Coakley had a 20 point lead, and then January 5th when her lead was cut in half… Coakley was ‘literally on vacation.'” (Nora O’Donnell of MSNBC)
Sen.-elect Scott Brown takes the interim election in Massachusetts to fill the late Senator Kennedy’s seat until 2012. Brown will be the first Republican senator from Massachusetts in 30 years which is a much bigger blow to an opposing party’s politics than when Air Force Capt. and Democrat, Bill Owens defeated businessman Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate, in upstate NY.
What the Republicans understand well and the Democrats continue to fail historically at, is if you compromise your political positions as Coakley (another Mass. politician, John Kerry is infamous for being associated with flip flopping as well) had done on the abortion and capital punishment issues, then you’ll lose resoundingly regardless of political history in the voting district.
Ted Kennedy just rolled over in his grave as this result now means major complications for any national healthcare reform. Which really makes the entire DNC look even more pathetic than ever. John Stewart says it well when discussing the death of the healthcare bill:
And the reason it will die … [pauses for effect] … Let’s continue … The reason it will die is because if Coakley loses, Democrats will only then have an eighteen-vote majority in the Senate. Which is more than George W. Bush ever had in the Senate, when he did whatever the f*** he wanted to do! In fact, the Democrats have a greater majority than the Republicans have had since 1923! But for Democrats, apparently a majority of 100 is … sixty.
~ Ted Kennedy
Miles Davis – Blue Haze (right-click to download)
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*UTB – is an acronym for the phrase “Under the Bus”. It’s pronounced as it’s own word (uHt-be) much like such sonar, (created from sound navigation and ranging).