The Punch Heard ‘round the World

In the Massachusetts race to replace Ted Kennedy in the US Senate, Republican candidate Scott Brown landed several damaging blows against Democrat lightweight Martha Coakley in their final televised debate, but the wild haymaker he unleashed upside the head of RINO moderator David Gergen could prove to be "the punch heard 'round the world."

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In what appeared as a shameful attempt to earn extra cocktail party "attaboys and brownie points" from establishment buddies and Beltway elites, the gelded moderator, who threw hardball questions at Brown and tossed softball ones at Coakley, asked Brown if he were willing to "sit in Teddy Kennedy's seat and... be the person that's gonna block [healthcare] for another 15 years." And that's when Brown drew back and let fly his kisser missile:

"Well, with all due respect, it's not the Kennedys' seat, and it's not the Democrats' seat, it's the people's seat..."

"Pow!" "Crash!" "Thwapp!" It looks like the Joker was hoisted on his own petard. Brown reminded Gergen that Massachusetts is not a fiefdom and its US Senate seat does not belong to some feudal lord. Democrats and their pseudo-Republican cohorts have made a critical mistake in assuming a cake-walk for the Leftist Lion's anointed successor. Special elections are notorious for low voter turnout, especially mid-January ones in Massachusetts, and if Brown's voters are more motivated than Coakley's, it's possible a Massachusetts Miracle could happen. Recent polls show the Massachusetts senate seat is up for grabs. No one knows who will win next Tuesday, but the Beacon Hill political machine is mobilizing ACORN and SEIU "organizers" to canvas dilapidated warehouses and abandoned home sites, run-down tenements and homeless shelters, and prisons and cemeteries to keep the seat in Democrat hands. The Massachusetts special election may become a "referendum on ObamaCare." Brown has vowed to block the Democrat's attempt to take over health care and be the crucial 41st vote in the Senate. If he wins, Democrats can kiss ObamaCare goodbye. However, the fate of ObamaCare may hinge more on when Brown is sworn in as senator. Senate interim appointee Paul Kirk vowed that he would remain in the United States Senate until the health care vote is taken even if Brown wins the election. "It would be my responsibility as United States Senator, representing the people and understanding Senator Kennedy's agenda and the rest of it," Kirk said. Shortly before he died in 2009, Kennedy coerced Democrat lawmakers to rewrite the state's succession law to bolster ObamaCare, which reversed their previous succession law that Kennedy had pressured them to rewrite back in 2004 to stop a Republican appointment. Massachusetts Democrats changed the rules in the middle-of-the-game to seat Kirk in the Senate so that he would vote for ObamaCare. And should the people of Massachusetts override their Masters' wishes and elect a Republican over Coakley, the machine candidate, the Democrats will delay the swearing-in of Kirk's successor until well after the president's address on February 20. If the Democrats lose the seat, it appears that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is prepared to defy the will of the Massachusetts voters and drag out the certification process until the Democrats can ram ObamaCare through Congress. "[T]threatening to ignore the results of a free election and steal this Senate vote from the people of Massachusetts takes [Democrat] schemes to a whole new level,"Brown said. A spokesman for Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, who is overseeing the election, said the Governor's Council would take a while to certify the January 19 special election. After all, it's enough for the people of Massachusetts to know there was an election? Although the Massachusetts Senate race looks to be shaping up as a potential disaster for Democrats, party leaders needn't worry for they know that the people who cast the votes decide nothing, and the people who count the votes decide everything. Even so, the nation's future could conceivably hang on the outcome of this crucial race. A Brown victory might make "moderate" Democrats back away from nationalized healthcare, and they'll desist from pushing the country any further into socialism. For information on Scott Brown's election campaign, see his Red Invades Blue website.