Scott Brown: Does he Really Have a Chance

there is a lot not to like about Coakley. Her vicious treatment of the completely innocent Gerald Amirault is more the inexcusable. It is criminal. She claims credit for Big Dig investigations in which she had no involvement. Massachussets is truly a benighted State if they add her name to those of Kennedy, Kerry, Markey, Capuano and Frank.

This is an opportunity for Commonwealth voters to show that the citizens can't be bought off, as Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu and others thought. This could be a sea change politically in Massachusetts. Time will tell.


Heckuva Revolt
Investors Business Daily
January 12, 2010
http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=517891


Posted 06:36 PM ET

Massachusetts underdog Scott Brown: Running for "the people's seat," not Kennedy's. AP View Enlarged Image
People Power: Anybody who thinks the threats of a socialistic health overhaul and big government haven't sparked a popular uprising need only look one place: Teddy Kennedy's Massachusetts.

'Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job!" has taken on new meaning as GOP senatorial candidate Scott Brown turns politics upside down in liberal Massachusetts.

It may have been impossible to dislodge a Kennedy from a Senate seat going all the way back to when Ozzie and Harriet ruled prime time TV. But now, with the voters set to choose the successor of Ted Kennedy, who died of brain cancer in August, the family's legacy apparently doesn't extend beyond the grave.

State Sen. Brown summed it all up in a debating quip that in an odd way was the antithesis to Lloyd Bentsen's "you're no Jack Kennedy" line against Dan Quayle in the 1988 vice presidential debate. In his sparring session Monday night with Democratic rival Martha Coakley, Brown said, "It's not the Kennedy seat, and it's not the Democrats' seat. It's the people's seat."

As poll ratings for the Democrats' health overhaul crash, Brown has made the case that it will mean lost jobs for his state.

He has credibility in that area. The National Federation of Independent Businesses named Brown a "guardian of small business," and the Associated Industries of Massachusetts gave him their A rating for supporting policies that bring new jobs and protect existing ones. And he's established a reputation as a foe of tax hikes and government waste.

Even so, Brown did vote for former Republican Gov. Mitt Romney's state health care plan, which like Obama's plan forces people to buy insurance or be fined, and which possible 2012 presidential candidate Romney himself hasn't seemed too proud of lately.

So this defense lawyer and longtime National Guard member is no knight in chink-free armor.

Still, that makes it all the more remarkable that he may win in such a Democratic state; one poll had Brown ahead by a nose last week. Brown has touted himself as a one-man barrier against the Democrats' filibuster-proof Senate supermajority and the enactment of their trillion-dollar health care revolution.

With the stakes so high, Massachusetts Republicans reportedly fear that if Brown pulls off an upset in next week's election, Democrats would delay the certification process for as long as a month to prevent him from voting on the health overhaul.

The Brown race in Taxachusetts is an ominous rumbling beneath America's political landscape, with the earthquake arriving in November. Democrats and their stimulus bills that don't stimulate have spent us into double-digit unemployment.

They've refused to work with the GOP on the tried-and-true low-tax solutions to recession. And now they want to spend another trillion-plus wrecking a health system that's the envy of the world.

Win or lose, Scott Brown has already done a heckuva job showing the Washington establishment that a nationwide grass-roots revolt is getting bigger and bigger.