Are Dems this worried about losing the Massachusetts special election?
posted at 10:10 am on January 9, 2010 by Ed Morrissey
For a party that should be coasting to victory in a Senate election they never lose, the Democrats seems mighty worried about the prospects of the hand-picked replacement for Ted Kennedy. A few weeks ago, no one would have thought for a moment that Republican Scott Brown would come within 20 points of Martha Coakley, the Kennedy family-approved heir to the “Liberal Lion’s” seat in the US Senate. Yesterday, Democrats got so rattled that they began speaking openly of keeping Brown out of the Senate for as long as they could once he wins:
The longtime aide and confidant of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who was handpicked by Gov. Deval Patrick after a controversial legal change to hold Kennedy’s seat, vowed to vote for the bill even if Republican state Sen. Scott Brown, who opposes the health-care reform legislation, prevails in a Jan. 19 special election.
“Absolutely,” Kirk said, when asked if he’d vote for the bill, even if Brown captures the seat. “It would be my responsibility as United States senator, representing the people and understanding Senator Kennedy’s agenda. . . . I think you’re asking me a hypothetical question but I’d be pleased to vote for the bill.” …
The U.S. Senate ultimately will schedule the swearing-in of Kirk’s successor, but not until the state certifies the election.
Today, a spokesman for Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin, who is overseeing the election but did not respond to a call seeking comment, said certification of the Jan. 19 election by the Governor’s Council would take a while.
“Because it’s a federal election,” spokesman Brian McNiff said. “We’d have to wait 10 days for absentee and military ballots to come in.”
Another source told the Herald that Galvin’s office has said the election won’t be certified until Feb. 20 – well after the president’s address.
Apparently, the Democrats are afraid of responding to the will of the voters in Massachusetts. They have grown accustomed to having their power go unchallenged in the Commonwealth, and don’t take kindly to upstarts butting into their business. Their best plans now include keeping a man appointed by an unpopular governor in place to keep a popular choice for the Senate seat out of Congress long enough to get a wildly unpopular bill passed.
Everyone in the Democratic party thinks this doesn’t smell of desperation?
Elections matter, except in Massachusetts, where Democrats decide whether to acknowledge them or not. Maybe they should change the name of their party, since democracy appears to mean little to them. Autocrats works better, I think.
So, given all of this, how long will it take for Coakley to get to take the oath if she wins? Something tells me that she won’t have to wait until February 21st.
Update: Jules Crittenden, who has covered this race the best, has more thoughts.
Update II: I hung myself up on a double negative in the original text. I’ve since corrected it.
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One can only hope that The Globe will chose to amplify this.
anniekc on January 9, 2010 at 10:13 AM
Doubt it. The RNC head is Michael Steele; the supposed leader of our party is Backdoor John McCain. If I was a Democrat, I’d be laughing so hard, I’d sh*t myself.
austinnelly on January 9, 2010 at 10:13 AM
Please, PLEASE send money to Scott.
OmahaConservative on January 9, 2010 at 10:15 AM
If Brown wins and if the Democrats play with the swearing in, the GOP better be in front of every tv camera, every day, telling the whole country about the subversion of democracy.
myrenovations on January 9, 2010 at 10:16 AM
All of this controversy could have been avoided if the Taxachusettes legislature had just passed a law stating that the Hereditary Kennedy Senate Seat would be occupied by whomever the Kennedy Family chose to fill it.
Think of all the time saved not having to change the Senate succession law (what is it, 2 or 3 times now). Not only that, the liberal “intellectual elite” would be able to pick and choose amongst themselves who would fill this seat.
Wonder how the Adams brothers would look upon their fellow New Englanders today.
GarandFan on January 9, 2010 at 10:17 AM
I wonder what would happen if he were 350 pounds
tomas on January 9, 2010 at 10:17 AM
They need a laughing fit to mess their pants?
Since when?
franksalterego on January 9, 2010 at 10:19 AM
Isn’t it nice that they’ve found their misplaced patriotism in MA and now want to wait 10 days for the absentee military ballots. Surely the people of that state are beginning to realize how caged they are and in the complete control of the governing body. Of course, they helped place themselves in that predicament by continuing to vote their jailers into office.
Kissmygrits on January 9, 2010 at 10:19 AM
With all this talk of Dems loosing the seat has ole Teddy shifting in his bed..
hawkman on January 9, 2010 at 10:22 AM
I wouldn’t make too much of the John McCain thing; Most people dabble on the periphery of politics, and he was the Repub Presidential candidate- who else are they going to name at this point? I have no defense for that buffoon Steele. He’s just an opportunist doofus.
anniekc on January 9, 2010 at 10:22 AM
Sent my money in and I hope more of us do.
yoda on January 9, 2010 at 10:22 AM
Yes they are.
BobH on January 9, 2010 at 10:23 AM
I thought I couldn’t be surprised by the Democrats anymore but their handling of Congress this year has been breathtaking.
Cindy Munford on January 9, 2010 at 10:25 AM
The dems dont want to pour resources in or raise the profile of the race because that would be a disaster on their part and guarantee that the spin is that they had to work had to win a special election in MA. And the R’s dont want to pour any resources in or raise the profile because the spin will be that vulernable blue state dems can withstand a GOP onslaught, especially in a special election where turnout is even lower and more geared towards voters angry with the status quo.
Notorious GOP on January 9, 2010 at 10:28 AM
GOD Bless you, my dear!
OmahaConservative on January 9, 2010 at 10:29 AM
Gives new meaning to the most transparent Congress in history……….they are paper thin and don’t even try to hide their misdeeds in this one.
JoeinTX on January 9, 2010 at 10:30 AM
You just know no matter how the election results turn out, the marxists will steal it for themselves. The b@stards…
ErinF on January 9, 2010 at 10:31 AM
I sent a donation too. Not much, but if we all send a little it will make an impact.
I am tired of this congress spitting on the Constitution. The Dems have shown that they do not care about the will of the people and will deceive everyone to implement their leftist agenda. They can’t fool me anymore and I will be voting accordingly. I hope they get voted out of power for a long time until they get a clue.
WyoMike on January 9, 2010 at 10:31 AM
The dems have plans to find some long-lost parking tickets of Brown or something, then they can jail him until HC is passed.
Bishop on January 9, 2010 at 10:32 AM
Mind boggling.
The dems…..waiting to count MILITARY BALLOTS?
Surely this is a sign of the coming apocalypse!
Talon on January 9, 2010 at 10:34 AM
None of us has a lot these days. I have started to buy budget booze instead of pampering myself with the good stuff. May even switch back to (yuck) domestic mass-produced beer.
OmahaConservative on January 9, 2010 at 10:34 AM
Don’t interim appointments expire immediately upon the holding of a special election?
JohnJ on January 9, 2010 at 10:35 AM
Does the Democrat Party have any democratic principles anymore?
Yakko77 on January 9, 2010 at 10:36 AM
Church Lady says ……….. “How Conveeeeenient”
fogw on January 9, 2010 at 10:36 AM
You may be a Scott Brown voter if:
•You’re in a union, and you’re going to have to pay a 40 percent tax on your “Cadillac” health-care plan if Martha Coakley gets a chance to vote for Obama’s health-care rationing bill.
•You’re still waiting for that property-tax relief that Deval Patrick promised you in 2006.
•You’re on kidney dialysis and you have to pay for your treatment . . . but illegal aliens don’t.
•You’ve been rear-ended by a drunken state senator.
•You’ve been groped in Lowell by a state senator who, when arrested, gave police the name of a state rep.
•You lost your appetite for lunch one day when you observed a female state senator in a restaurant stuffing FBI cash bribes into her bra.
•You watch this crime wave emanating from the State House and wonder why the attorney general can’t seem to find one single solon to arrest, when the feds have no difficulty whatsoever nailing House speaker after speaker after speaker on serious felonies – not the technicalities Martha Coakley’s gone after Sal DiMasi for.
•You own a package store in the Merrimack Valley, and you’re getting killed by the hacks’ new 6.25 percent sales tax on alcohol, on top of the 37 percent excise tax.
•You believe that if someone rapes his 23-month-old niece with a hot curling iron, the district attorney should go after the rapist even before the child’s mother files a complaint – even if the perp is a politically wired cop and the DA is running for higher office.
•You believe that if the governor’s appointees rubberstamp a $44 million utility-rate increase, and then the next week Deval pockets $7,000 in contributions from that same power company’s executives (and spouses) at their lobbyist’s office, perhaps the attorney general should at least have . . . a comment.
•You don’t have a big problem with making county jailbirds pay $5 a day room and board at the House of Correction, even if the SJC does.
•You do, however, have a problem with Billy Bulger’s $198,205.92 state pension (with survivor’s benefits).
•Your local property-tax bill is rising almost as fast as the value of your home is dropping.
•You wonder why Martha Coakley never apologized to Tookie Amirault.
•You’ve had to wait hours in line at a Registry office to renew your driver’s license after they shut down your local branch because of the state’s alleged fiscal crisis – but they still want to give free tuition at state colleges to illegal aliens.
•You’re a veteran, and you wonder why you’re supposed to vote for an ardent supporter of the administration whose Homeland Security secretary refuses to call real terrorists terrorists, but who last spring issued a memo to local cops warning that “the return of military veterans . . . could lead to the potential emergence of terrorist groups.”
•You can’t figure out why you’re supposed to care about the endorsement of Martha Coakley by some woman from Louisiana whose father did his own bit at Club Fed, and by some guy who put a woman in a wheelchair for life back on Nantucket.
•You did at least some of your Christmas shopping in New Hampshire to beat the 25 percent sales tax increase the Democrats imposed on working people to pay for the corrupt hackerama that Martha Coakley so proudly endorses.
•Your federal income taxes are going through the roof in 2011 when the Bush tax cuts expire – and Martha Coakley thinks that’s just wonderful.
•You’d like to send a message to the limousine liberals who are driving this state and this country off a cliff.
From Boston Herald comments
b1jetmech on January 9, 2010 at 10:36 AM
Hopefully, the dead won’t come back to life to vote and other strong-arm political tactics on the 19th…..that’s what is worrying me. I would like to see a fair fight for the position…..yeah, right.
yoda on January 9, 2010 at 10:36 AM
Meant to add: The difference goes to right-minded political candidates. Instead of steak, we’ll eat chicken and bean soup if necessary.
OmahaConservative on January 9, 2010 at 10:37 AM
So wasn’t it an emergency for the replacement to get to the Senate immediately? So then it must be an emergency for the duly elected representative to also get their immediately.
Dem-rat logic consists of three things — Lie cheat and steal.
tarpon on January 9, 2010 at 10:38 AM
Ed: why don’t we do a Hotair moneybomb. Aren’t there web apps for this?
TimTebowSavesAmerica on January 9, 2010 at 10:38 AM
I sent in money to Scott and blasted an email to all my friends to do the same. Have you contacted your friends and explained to them the importance of this contest?
Even if Scott just runs a close race, this will scare some Dems back into sensibility.
ksm on January 9, 2010 at 10:39 AM
Would it make more sense to get to DC with pitchforks if Brown wins?
antisocial on January 9, 2010 at 10:40 AM
sent some money and will be calling to get out the vote next week.
kringeesmom on January 9, 2010 at 10:40 AM
If Brown wins (and I think the odds are better than 50-50) and if the Dems try to delay his swearing in, there will be holy hell to pay in Massachusetts. The Democratic machine in Boston might think that they own the process, but they will be in for a rude shock if they play these games. This isn’t Chicago, it’s Bawston.
People are going to be very cranky, especially once the Pats get booted out of Super Bowl contention.
The only Kennedy succession is the dirt nap awaiting the next one. And if you’re looking for a model of what’s about to happen, think back to the Kathleen Kennedy Townsend election in Maryland. A Kennedy-approved, lousy candidate supported by a very unpopular governor, in a blue state no one even thought of as Republican….
EMD on January 9, 2010 at 10:42 AM
I sent money to John Thune in SoDak from San Diego while I lived there. Believe/Trust me, we can make a difference.
OmahaConservative on January 9, 2010 at 10:43 AM
In Massachusetts, it’s time to focus on everything that ACORN is doing. Poll watchers need to get organized so that they can be on the lookout for a concerted fraud campaign that the Democrats are likely to be launching.
BottomLine5 on January 9, 2010 at 10:44 AM
Thanks to all of you. My act of gratitude shall be working the phones at the local HQ.
fluffy on January 9, 2010 at 10:44 AM
Why do Democrats act like they do? Answer — They think their parrot lame-stream media will tow the party line across every radio and tv in the land.
Lame-stream media, corruption enabler.
Ask yourself, how many people would support this evil halth care rationing scheme if the lame-stream media actually told them what was in the bill.
tarpon on January 9, 2010 at 10:46 AM
I am embarrassed to say that I never thought of this. SanFranNan was telling the truth the whole time! Amazing!
jwolf on January 9, 2010 at 10:47 AM
Way to go, and burn the phone lines like a teenager on her brand new iPhone. We’re going to win this!
TXUS on January 9, 2010 at 10:51 AM
I’ve always preferred the name “MediaCrats“.
jeanneb on January 9, 2010 at 10:53 AM
Mass(D)s=do as I say, not as I do
cmsinaz on January 9, 2010 at 10:53 AM
I guess just the fact that the abortion loving, long time aide of Kennedy survived multiple car trips with him made her look like a shoe in.
The Democrats in MA should be called The American Ba’ath Party, since they don’t like a two horse race.
I’ll be at the poll early along with my wife and just turned eighteen year old son voting against the ghost of Kennedy.
Hening on January 9, 2010 at 10:54 AM
By federal law the interim appointment ends immediately upon the day of the special election. No ambiguity.
dogsoldier on January 9, 2010 at 10:54 AM
Bury Obamacare with Ted Kennedy. Let it be the next dead Kennedy.
EMD on January 9, 2010 at 10:55 AM
Go, Scott! This past year I have sent more $ to out of state conservatives than I have spent on Texas candidates!
on fire on January 9, 2010 at 10:56 AM
Legal Insurrection has a couple of posts yesterday about push polling in this race. You don’t get two guesses as to which candidate is being attacked in this manner.
GnuBreed on January 9, 2010 at 10:57 AM
Massholes don’t need a vote.
They don’t need a Constitution.
There is no democracy in Massaschusetts. It is a banana republic with no end to a supply of morons with no respect to the rule of law.
drjohn on January 9, 2010 at 11:01 AM
All of us aren’t moonbats here in Mass. The big unions own the democratic party here and you made a good point that we should keep an eye on ACORN. The purple shirts too. If Scott Brown wins, it’s a victory for all of America. We need your help, even if it’s as small as 5 of 10 dollars. I’m a volunteer in the Brown Brigade and I’m going to start the discussions of how we can keep an eye out for (and expose) the coming electon fraud on Jan 19th. We need all the help we can get to make sure America doesn’t get cheated. Martha is the biggest waste of space, she is a rubber stamp for the left wing, completely in the union pockets. Please help us help America:
shanimal on January 9, 2010 at 11:03 AM
There is no democracy in Massaschusetts. I don’t even understand why they hold votes. What’s the point?
What Massachusetts does have is an endless supply of morons with no respect for the rule of law.
drjohn on January 9, 2010 at 11:04 AM
Hahahahahaha. You think Harry Reid cares about the law?
rockmom on January 9, 2010 at 11:05 AM
Good point. Why aren’t they laughing?
Oldnuke on January 9, 2010 at 11:05 AM
Democrats are pure scum.
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/search/label/2010%20Election
Garbage. Filth.
drjohn on January 9, 2010 at 11:08 AM
I’m going to give $17.76 to Mr. Brown’s campaign today. We all need to put some skin into this race up there in MA. Omahaconservative and a few others are leading by example in this one.
I submit that this race is a referendum on nationalized healthcare. The storm has gathered over Massachussetts. This is your opportunity there to tell the nation whether this expensive gambit is worth it or not. Moreover, remember the Patriots out at Lexington Green, who marched out to Concord and why they did it. If the voters support Scott Brown, then it is a double blow to national healthcare. First, he’s #41. Second, Massachusetts has tried it and this is their opportunity to say whether they like it or not..
I agree–support Scott Brown in the spirit of 1776–>$17.76
ted c on January 9, 2010 at 11:11 AM
http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/2010/01/shocked-mass-interim-senator-violates.html
Democrats SUCK.
Strong post to follow.
drjohn on January 9, 2010 at 11:11 AM
Wow. I’m speechless. I copied some of the comments that struck me. How can anyone survive living in MA with all the taxes???
And a hot curling iron? I’m going to cry. Unbelievable.
conservative pilgrim on January 9, 2010 at 11:14 AM
I bet if Brown wins the election, Partick and the other idiots in Massachusetts will pass a hurried law voiding the election- voiding any election won by a Republican.
drjohn on January 9, 2010 at 11:14 AM
I prefer the name I saw over at Ace: “Massholes”.
parteagirl on January 9, 2010 at 11:14 AM
Law?
Constitution?
Are you people crazy?
Mojave Mark on January 9, 2010 at 11:17 AM
I think you have to be stealthy about this. Let the dems hang themselves…I don’t want to see the usual suspect drumming of the dems to get out to vote. Sometimes it is best to just shut your mouth.
tomas on January 9, 2010 at 11:18 AM
Just donated to Scott, what little I could these days but well worth it! This is one step closer to taking our America back!
Coastal Paradise on January 9, 2010 at 11:19 AM
Obama needs to get his ass down to Mass.
Norman Blizter on January 9, 2010 at 11:20 AM
I sent money.
I DARE them to delay his swearing in. March in Washington!!
PattyJ on January 9, 2010 at 11:20 AM
Yes, please! And hopefully the citizens there will be as moved as those in New Jersey and Virginia.
Cindy Munford on January 9, 2010 at 11:26 AM
Wasn’t going to do it until I started reading this crap. We have got to stop these people.
Money donated late last night.
Knucklehead on January 9, 2010 at 11:27 AM
Come on now, we haven’t had a decent Republican candidate here in decades, but now we have Brown. We have a grass roots organization doing our best to get him elected. And we need your help, not your insults. I’ve been support MM and Hot Air for as long as they have been online, I’m a conservative just like many of you. Please don’t use such a broad brush to paint all of Mass as a bunch of moonbats because it’s just not true. You might be surprised that in the 2008 POTUS election, in my town the vote was 2,899 for McCain and 2,933 for Obama. McCain the rino actually won in a whole bunch of towns. It’s the cities where the race was won for Obama.
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/election_results/ma_president/
Again we need your help, save the insults for the moonbats. I think the $17.76 donation to Brown was and is a brilliant idea. Thank you so much! TOGETHER WE CAN BOOT THE MOONBATS OUT. Brown is the 41st vote for Americans and against the socialist agenda.
shanimal on January 9, 2010 at 11:32 AM
Deval Patrick is not going to let his plagiarizing buddy go down in flames.
SouthernGent on January 9, 2010 at 11:33 AM
This article has more details on the case. I have to warn you though… it’s graphic and disturbing:
http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2008/articles/2010/01/06/some_saw_coakley_as_lax_on_05_rape_case/
The commentary is extremely telling, particularly when you consider that it comes from liberal Globe.
Many of the comments come from Democrats expressing their disgust that Coakley’s record wasn’t more of an issue during the primary, and most seem to be repulsed enough to either vote for Brown or stay home altogether.
Murf76 on January 9, 2010 at 11:33 AM
C’mon Ed!
This is Taxa2sh*ts! Remember, the Sainted Kennedy Clan got their bucks from bootleg booze and the name Fitzgerald refers back to the corrupt Boston Mayor who married into the Clan.
Of course the Donks are gonna rig the outcome!
SeniorD on January 9, 2010 at 11:38 AM
Massachusetts’ “progressive” rulers are going with the same scorched earth policy of their DC brethren.
They see the end of their reign coming, and want to inflict as much damage as they can on the way out. Think Saddam Hussein burning oil wells on his way out of Kuwait.
Sure, you got rid of them, but it will take years to clean up the mess they made.
That’s their plan.
They have lost all care and concern for the People.
We’re gonna need a lot more rope before this is all done.
Bruce in NH on January 9, 2010 at 11:44 AM
LOL when has a law ever stopped the dims?
chemman on January 9, 2010 at 11:45 AM
So what will it take for the honest people to descend on D.C. with tar and feathers. Will this possibility finally get everyone’s attention?
chemman on January 9, 2010 at 11:47 AM
I’ve donated twice, and if need be, will do so again. The only downside for me is trusting the people of Mass. to do the right thing for the rest of us.
If your listening Massachusetts, show us that patriotism still exists in the former heart of patriotism.
donh525 on January 9, 2010 at 11:47 AM
Thats what I say every time I see the word “Democrat” Nothing is democratic about them.
royzer on January 9, 2010 at 11:49 AM
Massachussetts, your once great state, was so critical to the Revolution and our founding. Without those patriots then, we would not be.
How fitting that the Second Revolution start right there in 2010.
That’s why I’ve given the legal max to Brown and urged all my friends, employees, and business associates to give as much as they can.
Together we can send another shot heard ’round the world.
TXUS on January 9, 2010 at 11:49 AM
The only real way they’d be able to block his swearing in is if the race is tight, and they contest the election and force waiting for the absentee ballots.
But if he wins by a solid +10 points or more there’s no way they can force that, and Kirk would be immediately resigned.
Enoxo on January 9, 2010 at 11:49 AM
The absentee vote issue is a red herring to a degree. If the number of outstanding absentee ballots is not sufficient to overcome the margin of victory, the inclusion of them does not matter. Are the Dems worried that even if their anointed one does win it won’t be out of the margin of outstanding votes? Or let me guess, absentee votes only matter if the Republican wins.
I also find it ironic that the one state that does have a sort of universal medical insurance legislation is the one which seems to be the most divided on the merits of such a thing. I think a rebuttal of pro universal health care candidate by this state would send a far bigger message.
“Learn from our mistake”
Just A Grunt on January 9, 2010 at 11:50 AM
Shows how rattled the Dems are. They aren’t thinking straight any more. Don’t military ballots usually go to the republicans? You would think that they would follow their usual MO and try to lose or ignore those ballots.
Mallard T. Drake on January 9, 2010 at 11:50 AM
Looks like the Dems don’t even need Kirk’s vote.
This bill is going through.
katy on January 9, 2010 at 11:52 AM
myrenovations on January 9, 2010 at 10:16 AM
If Brown wins and if the Democrats play with the swearing in, the GOP better be in front of every tv camera, every day, telling the whole country about the
subversion of democracySoros-funded Democracy Alliance’s “Secretary of States Project” Coup d’etat.There. FIFY.
jstjoan on January 9, 2010 at 11:53 AM
I have contributed MONEY and am making calls from HOME today!
MattyIce17 on January 9, 2010 at 11:53 AM
You raise an excellent point for consideration, Ed. I suspect a successful Coakley would be sworn-in within a matter of nanoseconds … Teddy would have wanted it that way.
This reminds me of a funny story. A few years ago, I was working in western Kentucky and was involved with a conversation with a local hydraulics technician. When I questioned him about his familiarity with a particular specialized valve, he responded with this:
“Naw, I ain’t never seen none of them before.”
He breached English etiquette rules, bypassed the double negative, and went directly to the quadruple negative!
ReagansRight on January 9, 2010 at 12:08 PM
I sent Brown $50 bucks online yesterday.
I would love it if he won and the Dems tried to keep him from taking his job so he could help with the filibuster.
Sapwolf on January 9, 2010 at 12:14 PM
Well I ain’t never seen none of them before either. Maybe I am missing something, but that seems to be a well turned phrase. Don’t you know that the negatives keep canceling each other out.
Sheesh, you don’t know nuttin about math do you?
Just A Grunt on January 9, 2010 at 12:21 PM
I have sent in a few donations, each one is either $9.12 or $20.10.
I think this sends a very clear message as to who the folks are donating money to Scott Brown’s campaign.
AceR on January 9, 2010 at 12:27 PM
“Math is hard!” Hey. They do cancel out. Good observation on your part. (That made me laugh, thanks.)
ReagansRight on January 9, 2010 at 12:30 PM
I think of my neighboring MA as a state that has been suffering from a long illness with no cure in sight(RI too). Maybe Brown is the beginning of treatment?
jeanie on January 9, 2010 at 12:31 PM
Don’t never do it again!
(Someone had to say it…)
rmgraha on January 9, 2010 at 12:35 PM
Donated to the campaign and called campaign HQ to get a yard-sign… none left! That’s a good sign, pardon the pun!
massideas on January 9, 2010 at 12:37 PM
MassachusettsMassa-2-sh!ts: Senators: Edward M. Kennedy, D and John F. Kerry, DReagansRight on January 9, 2010 at 12:40 PM
And you continue to hang yourself up with double spacing between sentences. Ahem.
I’m in the Commonwealth (for how much longer, I don’t know, though — it wears you out after X amount of years). Usually the rumbling of the plebeians is relegated to environs removed from the polling booth, which is partly why Dems feel untouchable, the other part being the elitist hubris that is the left’s default modus operandi. This is the first time in a while that that the discontent may actually have enough momentum to carry over into the vote. If the Democrats continue to subvert the will of the people after a Brown win, perhaps the momentum will go farther still.
illustro on January 9, 2010 at 12:47 PM
Another sign of desperation: Push polling.
Buy Danish on January 9, 2010 at 12:50 PM
Good idea Ted, I have already donated $9.12 and $20.10 and will donate $17.76 today.
farright on January 9, 2010 at 12:50 PM
I sent Scott $35, small, but what I can afford. If I had time, I would phone-bank, too.
Kafir on January 9, 2010 at 1:05 PM
The Dems thought they had until the end of the year to completely EURO-cize the United States. They thought the death of the Great White Whale from Mass. to be only a hiccup.
Now it dawns on them that they could see an end to their socialist smorgasboard on Jan 19th by (of all people) the man who will take the Great White Whale’s seat.
They are in the throes of death.
stenwin77 on January 9, 2010 at 1:07 PM
If you’re inclined to be more generous, you can move the decimal points over 2 digits to the right :)
Buy Danish on January 9, 2010 at 1:07 PM
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