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Liberals tune out Mass. message
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| Contributor | Scott³ |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jan 26, 2010 05:10pm |
| Category | Commentary |
| News Date | Jan 26, 2010 04:00pm |
| Description | "My favorite e-mail after Scott Brown’s stunning Senate victory: “Can You Hear Us NOW?”
Answer from Team Obama: “We Know - You Love Us!”
There’s a point where blind arrogance becomes comic, and we passed the punch line long ago. Check out this headline from the Boston Globe-Democrat:
“The Message: Loud But Not So Clear.”
Not clear to whom? Bad policies and even worse politics drove this blue state to replace Ted Kennedy with a fiscally-conservative Republican. It wasn’t exactly a subtle message.
And yet it’s still lost on folks like Globie Renee Loth, still defending the liberal status quo. Loth blamed Democrat Martha Coakley’s once-unthinkable defeat on the poor quality of our voters.
“Brown didn’t run a hate campaign,” Loth conceded, “but he did become the locus for a broad variety of resentments, from people angry over the state’s sales tax increase to changes in their health care to gay rights.”
“Gay rights?” You see any Brown ads about gay rights? Doesn’t matter. Liberals can read between the lines:
“Brown’s campaign unmistakably appealed to men, even beyond the obvious contrast with Coakley. The truck, the barn jacket, the sports figures giving endorsements all signaled that Brown’s campaign was a comfortable home for disaffected men. Even his victory party had the look and feel of a beer-fueled tailgate party,” Loth wrote.
My colleague Margery Eagan made the same point on CNN, claiming Brown’s win was a victory for the “Gillette Stadium” crowd.
Who knew that the key electorate here was beer-swilling, truck-loving, testosterone-addled, homophobic white men? This from a state that elected Deval Patrick governor and, just a year ago, gave Barack Obama a 26-point win!
Wow - what are they putting in that beer, anyway?
This “logic” may be laughable, but it makes perfect sense to the liberal elites." |
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