Why Scott Brown Won More than a Senate Seat
As I have previously admitted, I am a conservative republican. Those words are ones which I have been a bit reluctant to say over the past few years, but, once again, I am quite proud. Yesterday was a victory for my side, in more ways than just the gain of a senate seat.
In the last presidential election, the state of Massachusetts voted for Obama by 26 points. I doubt McCain even spent much time or money campaigning there and do as he did with Maryland, just count it as a loss and concentrate on greener pastures. This normally very left leaning state has not voted in a Republican senator since 1972. I wasn’t even born. My parents hadn’t even met yet. That was a long time ago.
This victory shows the unrest with our current political environment. Brown has declared that he will vote against the current healthcare legislation. The same healthcare legislation that the majority of Americans oppose, a fact which the Democrats are ignoring. Brown has broken up the Democratic filibuster proof majority in the Senate, which means that the Democrats will actually need to put forth bi-partisan legislation to get anything done.
And the greatest thing that this victory shows is that the pendulum is swinging back. For the past year the Republicans have been witness to what can happen when they screw things up so bad that the American public has no confidence in them. And it hasn’t been pretty. I just hope that they take this knowledge and use it to their advantage for the upcoming elections. This is hope. This is change. And I hope this is the change that we remember in 2010.
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