Michael Barone on the Meaning of the MA Massacre

Michael Barone is to American politics what the Encyclopedia Brittanica used to be to scholarship: the ultimate definitive reference. Here's his take on the AWESOME FREAKIN' ascent of Scott Brown of 25 points in twenty-two days. If Ted Kennedy was "the Liberal Lion," Scott Brown is the "Slayer of Liberals."

Twenty-four days ago, on Dec. 28, state Sen. Scott Brown, the Republican nominee in the Massachusetts Senate election, promised he would be the 41st vote against the Democratic health-care bill. Almost no one noticed. Mr. Brown was trailing Democrat Martha Coakley by 20 points, and she was still on her six-day Christmas break from campaigning.

Twenty-two days made a difference. On Tuesday night, Mr. Brown strode to the platform at the Park Plaza Hotel and delivered his victory speech. While Washington reporters were busy speculating on whether President Obama would use his State of the Union speech to prod Democrats into jamming through their health-care bill before Mr. Brown is seated, the new Massachusetts senator delivered what amounted to a State of the Union speech himself.

Interim Sen. Paul Kirk, he announced, had completed his work in Washington. There would be no 60th vote for a health-care bill. The president was always welcome in Massachusetts, he said. And then Mr. Brown channeled Franklin Delano Roosevelt's riposte to the attacks on his dog Fala by saying that he resented Mr. Obama's attacks on his truck.

The senator-elect didn't just hit the president on health care. "In dealing with terrorists, our tax dollars should pay for weapons to stop them, not lawyers to defend them," he said.

Scott Brown's 52% victory over Ms. Coakley's 47%, in the state that in the last four presidential elections voted more Democratic than any other, is the harshest repudiation of a president since Democrat Richard Vander Veen won Gerald Ford's House seat in Michigan in 1974 by a 51%-44% margin.

That Democratic victory in the historical Republican heartland of Michigan signaled that Americans were repelled by the Watergate scandal and had had enough of Richard Nixon. He resigned from office six months later.

The Republican victory in the current Democratic heartland of Massachusetts sends the message that Americans are repelled by Barack Obama's big-government programs, backroom deals and oversolicitude for those who want to destroy us.

On Tuesday night Scott Brown took command and sent a clear message: The president must change course. Barack Obama, who was a state senator himself not so long ago, needs to listen.

Yes, Barone is from Michigan & I went to U of Mich at Ann Arbor back in the sixties, but I think you have to refer back to Truman's amazing upset of Dewey in '48 for a real analogy.

And since direct elections to the Senate were established just over 100 years ago by Teddy Rooseveldt's progressives, there has never been a greater comeback: From 20 points down in the polls on Dec. 28th to FIVE POINTS UP twenty-two days later.
A tsunami or a Krakatoa.

Of course, Dec. 28th is when the country began to consider the implications of the Christmas Eve Health Care Debacle being signed. The monstrous whore Mary of LA's Louisiana Purchase and her pimp counterpart Ben Nelson of the Cornhusker Kickback were just the appetizers. Then a bunch of union thugs coerced Obambi to give them tax-free Cadillac health coverage as a special privilege. That is when the Great Wave off the north shore of Oahu began to build. And from then on, Brown hopped on and skillfully rode the Pipeline perfectly and surfed into history with a stunning, breath-taking crushing victory.

Now Choakley will be blamed by the libtards, and they will insist on ramming and jamming this dildo of an ObamaCare debacle up America's butt with parliamentary legerdemain.

Lotsa luck, soon-to-be-crushed libtard Nancy and Harry and Bobo Boxer!