Seven Days...

In seven days my fellow Massholes have a chance to make history. We have a chance to elect Scott Brown to the United States Senate to fill the position left by Ted Kennedy's passing. We have a chance to break the single party stranglehold the Democrats currently enjoy whereby major legislation is passed not through debate and discussion but by backroom wheeling and dealing, arm-twisting, and bribery. The state of Massachusetts has the possibility of electing its first Republican Senator since Edward Brooke lost his re-election bid to Paul Tsongas in 1978. It has been over thirty years since conservatives in Massachusetts had representation from their Senators; Scott Brown is poised to change this.


Martha Coakley has run a campaign of coasting; she assumed the mantle of the frontrunner based not on her superior skills or experience but on her gender. She's done little in her short time as Attorney General to warrant running for national office; she faced opponents in the primary with equal or superior backgrounds to become US Senators; in short, she's a career hack who is reaching the end of the line. Her tenure as Attorney General has been short and rocked by controversy, offering little proof that she's anything other than yet another cog in the political machinery that operates on the status quo and the ever-reaching arm of the all-consuming nanny state.

And the attack ads have started - she's accusing Brown of the Unpardonable sin in Massachusetts (being a Republican). It's the same old tired montage - of course, she brings in Bush and Cheney as Republicans, yet doesn't tie Brown to them other than sharing their political affiliation. He ought to counter with a shot of Woodrow Wilson and ask if she'd like us to join the League of Nations. She's grasping at straws in the final weeks as her lead evaporates and Brown rakes in contributions and garners endorsements:

Boston Herald
Worcester Telegram
Lawrence Eagle Tribune
State Police Association of MA

This is unprecedented in the state of Massachusetts. Republicans can't win in MA, except for the occasional Gubernatorial run in the wake of spectacular failures like Michael "Snoopy" Dukakis. MA produces squishy, Democrat-lite Republicans like Bill Weld, Jane Swift, and Mitt Romney; hardly the dour GOP presented in Coakley's attack ad.

• For those in MA, please consider voting for Scott Brown next Tuesday. You'll be sending a strong and clear message to the clowns in DC that we're tired of business as usual; that we want a politician who might actually listen to us rather than just rubber-stamp anything that comes down the line from 0bama or Reid.

• For those outside of MA (and MA residents too), please consider tossing a few bucks into Brown's campaign. Winning this seat would send shockwaves reverberating through Washington DC and might possibly shake the idiots up enough to start listening to us. The Democrats losing Ted Kennedy's seat would be an accomplishment on a par with the GOP takeover in 1994.

It's the first salvo in the ballot box war to reclaim our country, and I'm proud to be on the front line.

That is all.