Tonight, in Massachusetts, the people spoke their minds and kicked the governing party in America squaw in the…well, they told them to shove it. The system designed by our Founding Fathers to allow the people of America to defend their right to freedom through elections has worked once again.
Our Republic allows the people to speak their minds every few years (and sometimes on special occasions) by voting for the candidates of their choice to represent them in DC. If they don’t like what they see, they boot the bums out and try again. The people in Massachusetts didn’t like what they were seeing in DC, and decided to try something new in Scott Brown. The system, designed to allow the people to voice their collective minds and hold their representatives accountable for terrible decisions, has worked. The Democrats now lack the required 60 votes in the Senate to pass health care, and many of them will get the message and tell Nancy Pelosi to take a hike in a last-ditch effort to save their own skins.
It’s now likely that the Dem’s health care debacle will go down in a ball of fire as scared Democrats in DC wake up tomorrow to the shocking news that a Republican has been elected senator from Massachusetts for the first time in nearly 40 years. At the very least, the Dems will have to either make significant changes to the bill or get exposed as the power-hungry statists they are when they attempt to cram the bill through the House and Senate before Scott Brown is seated to vote against it.
Watching Frank Luntz’s focus group tonight was actually pretty interesting. The participants were all Democrats, and nearly all of them voted for Obama in 2008. Half of them, roughly, voted for Coakley, and half for Brown. The Brown voters said they were trying to send a message to Washington that they were scared by what they were seeing in the health care bill and they want the Democrats in DC to STOP! Even the Coakley voters want the Democrats to seat Brown before there is a vote on health care. To paraphrase one man, “The state of Massachusetts has spoken, and you should honor our decision.” After all, that’s the whole point, and very foundation, of our Republic. If the Dems choose to ignore the will of the people and show disdain for our system of government, they will reap their terrible rewards in November, and may cause lasting damage to their party. Americans won’t look kindly on politicians overtly rejecting the will of the people.
Some Dems will insist that the real problem was poor messaging, or that they weren’t pushing hard enough for the liberal policies the voters really want. These people will soon have the title, “Former Representative from __”. They just don’t get it. Tonight’s election represents a monumental shift in the electorate and any politician that doesn’t heed this warning will rightfully be out of a job soon enough.
So, hats off to the Founders and the people of Massachusetts! Ya’ll did it again!
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