The bare facts

Like cornered rats, when all else fails, Democrats often go nuclear in their attempts to survive. So it appears that a story surfacing in, of all places, the on-line version of The Kansas City Star, purports to lay bare the naked truth about newly elected Senator Scott Brown (R-MA). The blog post features a photo of the June 1982 version of Cosmopolitan wherein the future senator appeared in the buff on a centre spread along with the caption “America’s sexiest man.”

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It’s highly unlikely that Brown’s campaign is responsible for this image making its appearance on the internet and much more likely supporters of Martha Coakley have launched it into cyberspace in hopes of stopping or slowing the anti-Democrat, anti-Obama, anti-secret health reform juggernaut. If the Cookley campaign is responsible for the posting, they underestimated the ferocious anger simmering in the heartland. The message from the American people is loud and clear. In selecting Scott Brown to serve in the Senate, the people of the bluest state in the nation did not reject Marsha Corkley so much, as they rejected the trajectory of administration policy. Democrats who don’t get this message are either deaf, dumb or so out of touch with reality they believe their own press releases. Poor Marva Conkley is an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire between an outraged electorate and a Congress likely to do anything, legal or otherwise, to get its way. It is a supreme irony that “Ted Kennedy’s seat” was a major battleground in this war of wills over the future of American healthcare. If one issue was close to Kennedy’s heart it was healthcare reform. But it’s likely that reforming healthcare looks different to rank and file Americans than it does to the Democrat elite. Let’s see if the Obama/Pelosi/Reid Axis of Upheaval is hearing the penny drop or if they’re still listening with their tin ears. It’s hard to predict what will happen now. The Democrats can choose to read the handwriting on the wall and go back to Square One, which seems to be what the majority of Americans want; or they can blindly advance deeper into this political Stalingrad and try to pass the health reform legislation in its present form come hell or high water. It’s now clear that if they choose the latter course of action whatever political capital they retain will go out the window and the next two or more election cycles will not look upon them kindly. And while health reform played a large role in this election it wasn’t the only issue to which voters reacted. The whole Obama agenda with its emphasis on European-style nanny statism, subjugation of individual rights in favor of “the greater good” and syndicalist governance by “experts” have been thoroughly rejected by the voters of Massachusetts who held proxy for the majority of Americans. Like so much that the Democrats have attempted to do in this very unusual and key election, if they are responsible for making public a picture of Scott Brown in his birthday suit, then it likely backfired and wound up having the opposite effect of generating votes for Brown. Today Marla Crookley and the Democrats must feel a little like Wyle E. Coyote of Warner Bros. cartoon fame.