Palin Reacts To The Brown Victory

From Sarah Palin’s Facebook page:

Congratulations to the new Senator-elect from Massachusetts! Scott Brown’s victory proves that the desire for real solutions transcends notions of “blue state” and “red state”. Americans agree that we need to hold our politicians accountable and bring common sense to D.C.

Recent elections have taught us that when a party in power loses its way, the American people will hold them accountable at the ballot box. Today under the Democrats, government spending is up nearly 23 percent and unemployment is higher than it’s been in a quarter of a century. For the past year they’ve built a record of broken promises, fat cat bailouts, closed-door meetings with lobbyists, sweetheart deals for corporate cronies, and midnight votes on weekends for major legislation that wasn’t even read. The good citizens of Massachusetts reminded Democrats not to take them for granted.

Americans cheered for Scott Brown’s underdog campaign because they viewed his candidacy as a vote against the Democrats’ health care bill. You know that there’s something wrong with this legislation when opposition to it inspired a Republican victory in a state that currently has no Republicans in Congress and last sent a Republican to the Senate nearly 40 years ago.

Clearly this victory is a bellwether for the big election night ten months from now. In the spirit of bipartisanship, let me offer some advice to the Democrats on how to stem this populist tide. Scrap your current health care bill and start from scratch. We all want true reform, but government mandated insurance is not it. Scott Brown campaigned against this top-down bureaucratic mess. We need common sense solutions like reforming malpractice laws, allowing people to purchase insurance across state lines, giving individual purchasers the same tax benefits as those who get coverage through their employers, and letting small businesses pool together to provide insurance for their employees. Focus your efforts on jobs, not on job-killing legislation. Such a change in approach would show Americans that you’re listening.

My best wishes to Senator-Elect Brown. When you go to Washington, may you never forget the ordinary citizens you met while driving that truck through the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Hey, Washington … CAN YOU HEAR US NOW???!!!???

Celebration!

We’re gonna celebrate and have a good time.

The election results from Massachusetts tonight are as good a reason to celebrate as any.

Sen.-Elect Scott Brown

You can go ahead and say it.

The Boston Tea Party of 2010 may have triggered the Second American Revolution.

Scott Brown became the first Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts in 30 years by cruising to an easy win over Democrat Martha Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Coakley in the special election to fill the seat once held by Ted “The Swimmer” Kennedy, the late Senator from Chappaquiddick.

The Swimmer’s seat, as pointed out tonight, hasn’t been occupied by a Republican in over six decades.

Al-AP has called the race for Brown. So has Fox News.

Coakley has called Brown to concede.

This result, of course, has both short-term and long-term implications for the entire nation. With Brown’s election, there are now only 57 Democrats in the Senate plus two independents that caucus with the Democrats. Dingy Harry doesn’t have his 60 votes for cloture without getting one RINO sellout.

That means the Democrats have limited options to get the health care takeover through. Most likely, they will try to force the House to vote to approve the Senate bill or use the reconciliation process to avoid any cloture votes.

In fact, Juan Williams just finished predicting on Hannity that would be what the Democrats would try. In effect, doubling down on stupid. Try to ram everything through, the voters be damned.

Would not be surprised one iota to see the health care bill rammed through in the next week and the Senate refuse to seat Brown until it is passed.

Yes We Did!

The open thread at Hot Air has numerous links and continuing coverage.

Statement from Press Secretary Baghdad Bob Gibbs at the White House here.

By the way, I’m with Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit. Sen. Brown should deliver the GOP’s response to the State of the Union Show on January 27.

With his victory tonight, Scott Brown has continued what was started in November by both Bob McDonnell and Chris Christie in victory and Doug Hoffman in a narrow defeat: the reconstruction of the Reagan coalition of economic conservatives, social conservatives, national security conservatives, libertarians, blue collar workers, middle class voters, ethnics.

This is the Big Magnet, a phrase coined by former Sen. Fred D. Thompson. It represents a Republican Party strong on principles that will draw voters, especially independents to it, rather than abandoning those principles in an attempt to be all things to all people and essentially stand for nothing.

This is how Ronald Reagan won two landslides in the 1980s and how Republicans captured control of Congress in 1994.

There is a red tsunami building, one that may very well wipe out the statists and Marxists and any enabling RINOs between now and November.

This is the Democrats’ worst nightmare. The emergence of the Tea Party movement as a legitimate political force in America. Once again, from The Prowler as we quoted here:

“You know what scares our people more than the fact that they lost Ted Kennedy’s seat and the Obama mystique may take a huge hit [today]?” says the DNC adviser. “The fact that Democrats and the media can no longer make the tea party types out to be irrational, inflexible ideologues who are supporting nothing but extreme right-wing candidates. The tea party movement supported Brown, raised millions for him and worked for him, and he is not necessarily their kind of guy. Brown proves the tea party movement can be tapped politically for Republican candidates anywhere in the country if they are basically sound on taxes and small government. That is huge.”

I have to go back to a post I bookmarked for further commentary that plays into it. It’s from Erick Erickson at Red State, a blog that if you aren’t reading, you should be.

In it, Erickson describes the big story that all of the state-run media missed in its zeal to portray the Tea Party activists as extreme ideological zealots hellbent on ideological purity and how Scott Brown didn’t fit their template:

Right now the media is missing a really big story. It does not fit their narrative.

The narrative, of course, is that conservatives want a totalitarian pure party with a purity test for the GOP. You want gay marriage? No way. Pro-choice? No support. For government assisted health care options? We don’t recognize you. At least that is what the media claims.

So the media has and is ignoring the alliance between left and right among the GOP in Massachusetts.

Scott Brown is not a conservative. He makes no pretension of being a conservative. He defends Romneycare, which most conservative have rejected. He is pro-choice. But he is for less government interference in the free market and less spending. Like Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania, he is the perfect sort of Republican candidate for New England.

Jim DeMint’s Senate Conservatives Fund is encouraging its members to support and donate to Scott Brown.. Marco Rubio is supporting Scott Brown. RedState is supporting Scott Brown. We, well . . . I, suspect he’ll give conservatives heart burn as New England Republicans do. But all of us know he is a good, pragmatic fit for Massachusetts. He’ll vote against Obamacare and he’d vote against a second stimulus. Conservatives do know, despite media and liberal Republican (called “moderate” by the media) claims to the contrary, that the GOP needs 51 seats in the Senate to have a majority.

Conservative and liberal Republicans are united behind Scott Brown. You’d think a mainstream media that has generated millions of words on television, radio, and print about conservatives demanding a pure party would take notice.

As I wrote earlier, this is the process of reconstructing the Reagan coalition that led to Republican prominence. Over the past 10-12 years, the Republicans lost their way by allowing the Democrats and the state-run media to define who they were, by allowing them to force this idiotic “Big Tent” approach in which all views had to be accommodated or the GOP would be labeled an ideologically rigid party. Ironic, too, since the definition of ideological rigidity is the Democrat Party.

The Big Tent approach has led the GOP into abandoning its core principles in an attempt to be all things to all people and in doing so, alienated the very same Reagan coalition that put it in power.

Right now, it looks like that coalition is being reconstructed, and the message is being sent loud and clear to Washington: to paraphrase President Bush from Ground Zero:

We hear you. All real patriotic Americans hear you. And the people who are trying to destroy our country will hear from all of us in November.

Coakley Goons Attack Reporter

This is who they are.

Thugs, goons, bullies.

Union thug supporters of Martha Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Coakley assault and throw members of the media out of Coakley headquarters.

Will be nice to beat these bastards where it counts: at the polls.

No Exit Polling In Massachusetts

There won’t be any exit polling conducted in the Massachusetts Senate race today, primarily because the race turned in favor of Republican Scott Brown late and the usual suspects had written the race off in favor of Martha Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Coakley.

Says John Fund of the Wall Street Journal:

The Massachusetts Senate race was a complete snoozer until January 5, when pollster Scott Rasmussen released a survey showing Republican Scott Brown trailing Democrat Martha Coakley by only nine points. That surprised many, but still wasn’t a true wake-up call that the race would be a barnburner. As late as January 10, the Boston Globe carried a headline trumpeting a poll showing Ms. Coakley with a 15-point lead. Mr. Brown’s surge was so sudden that many of the usual accoutrements of closely-contested elections are missing in the Bay State.

One is exit polls. There will be none tonight from Massachusetts, disappointing journalists and political scientists alike. As Mike Allen of Politico.com reports, the consortium of news outlets that normally organizes such surveys didn’t bother when the race was expected to be a blowout and now “wasn’t confident a reliable system could be built so fast.”

The late reversal of fortunes may also have thwarted the perennial attempts by Democrats to stuff the ballot boxes with fraudulent absentee ballots, dead voters, illegal aliens, duplicate voters, etc.

Why?

Another casualty of the expectation that the race would be a cakewalk for the Democrat will be an absence of absentee ballot fraud, the preferred method of putting an illegal thumb on the scale in a close race. Applications for absentee ballots had to be submitted by last Friday, providing little opportunity for those with ill intent to organize such an effort once they realized the race had tightened up.

Fund notes that one in four Bay State residents polled believe ACORN and its friends will try to steal the election for Marcia, Marcia, Marcia (boy, Jan must be so pissed!)

When asked whether “ACORN will try to steal the election for Martha Coakley,” a surprising 25% of those surveyed in Massachusetts said “yes.” A total of 38% said “no,” and another 37% weren’t sure. Lest you think concern about ACORN was limited to Republicans, one out of six Democrats thought ACORN would attempt electoral hanky-panky. One out of four African-Americans expressed the same concern, along with the same number of voters who called themselves moderates.

One in six Democrats and one in four blacks think ACORN will try to steal the election.

People may be waking up to the reality of voter registration and electoral fraud.

Hopefully not too late.

The Dem’s Circular Firing Squad

Politico is reporting that the Martha Marcia, Marcia, Marcia Coakley campaign is blaming Democrats in Washington, D.C., for the epic FAIL in Massachusetts, while the White House and Democrats on Capitol Hill are trying to spin the Bay State disaster as just a bad candidate.

You know, like they did with Creigh Deeds in Virginia.

First, from Jonathan Martin:

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — As voters head to the polls in Massachusetts, nervous Democrats have already begun to blame one another for putting at risk the Senate seat Ted Kennedy held for more than 40 years.

Many angry Democrats blame their candidate, state Attorney General Martha Coakley, for running a sluggish campaign that let Republican Scott Brown set the contours of the race.

Some Democratic strategists lay the fault at the feet of President Barack Obama, saying he should have done more to sell the party’s agenda.

And in private conversations, Hill sources say White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has blamed Coakley, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and Democratic pollster Celinda Lake for failing to see Brown’s surge in time to stop it.

“With the legislative and political stakes so high, it’s unbelievable that the Senate committee and White House let this race get so out of hand,” said one senior Washington Democrat. “There’s a lot of blame to go around. Martha Coakley is only one of the problems here.”

Coakley is at the center of the criticism. Democrats complain that her campaign was caught napping after last month’s primary — and that Brown was able to use the pause to shape the race.

“A malaise set in, and there was a failure to take advantage of the opportunity to define yourself the next day” after the primary, said longtime Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.). “You thank people for the primary and then begin to define the next six weeks.”

Added Neal: “Going dark was not a great idea.”

Even Washington Democrats are blaming each other.

Now, from Ben Smith, the Marcia, Marcia, Marcia campaign is firing back:

The Coakley campaign is bridling at finger-pointing from the White House and Washington Democrats, and outside adviser to the campaign has provided to POLITICO a memo aimed at rebutting the charge that Coakley failed, and making the case that national Democrats failed her.

The adviser, who made the case to my colleague Jonathan Martin on the condition of anonymity in response, he said, to “the current leaking coming out of the White House and the DNC that is chalking all of this up to a “bad candidate”.

The adviser, who cited internal polling numbers to make the case, emails that, “There’s more to the story than that. If Martha is guilty of taking the race for granted, so is the White House, and the DNC.”

What none of them are considering is that voters in deep navy blue Massachusetts are rejecting the agenda in Washington of Our Lord and Savior and the Democrats in Congress.

Tax, tax, tax. Spend, spend, spend. Nationalize the auto industry. Nationalize banks and financial institutions. And they have their very own brand of ObamaCare in RomneyCare. How’s that working out?

Once again, the Democrats prove that denial isn’t just a river in Egypt. They’ll get another dose of reality in November.

Exploding The ‘[Censored]‘ Myth

The word that was censored from the blog post headline was the disgusting (homo)sexual reference that pinhead lefties use to describe the Tea Party movement. That word is as offensive as the N-word and I have long ago decided that neither word will appear in this space.

That said, The Prowler (via Jimmie Bise, Jr., at The Sundries Shack), describes how the election of Scott Brown in the Massachusett(e)s U.S. Senate special election could destroy the nasty picture that the White House, Democrats on Capitol Hill and the state-run media are trying to paint of the Tea Party movement. Quoting an unnamed adviser to the Democrat National Committee:

“You know what scares our people more than the fact that they lost Ted Kennedy’s seat and the Obama mystique may take a huge hit [today]?” says the DNC adviser. “The fact that Democrats and the media can no longer make the tea party types out to be irrational, inflexible ideologues who are supporting nothing but extreme right-wing candidates. The tea party movement supported Brown, raised millions for him and worked for him, and he is not necessarily their kind of guy. Brown proves the tea party movement can be tapped politically for Republican candidates anywhere in the country if they are basically sound on taxes and small government. That is huge.”

What Brown has managed to do is continue the process begun by Chris Christie in New Jersey and Bob McDonnell in Virginia of reassembling the Reagan coalition and moving forward with what former Sen. Fred D. Thompson has described as the Big Magnet theory. Attracting people to the Republican Party rather than trying to be all things to all people in order to create the Big Tent so desired by the Democrats and the state-run media.

Ordinary Americans of all stripes and persuasions simply will not stand by and have the POTUS, congressional leaders and the media demonize them as racists, rednecks, ignorant, potential terrorists, et al., and smeared with a label reserved for homosexual porn flicks.

That was a horrible decision by the pinhead elitists in Washington and the Beltway culture and it’s swimming back to bite them in the backside in a big way.

Poe Grave Mystery Visitor Fails To Show

Every year since 1949, a mystery visitor has shown up to leave three roses and a bottle of Cognac at the grave to leave  of Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary of Poe’s birthday. Until today. The mystery visitor failed to show this morning.

BALTIMORE — Is this tradition “nevermore”?

A mysterious visitor who left roses and cognac at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe each year on the writer’s birthday failed to show early Tuesday, breaking with a ritual that began more than 60 years ago.

“I’m confused, befuddled,” said Jeff Jerome, curator of the Poe House and Museum. “I don’t know what’s going on.”

The tradition dates back to at least 1949, according to newspaper accounts from the era, Jerome said. Since then, an unidentified person has come every Jan. 19 to leave three roses and a half-bottle of cognac at Poe’s grave in a church cemetery in downtown Baltimore.

Kleefisch For Our Lt. Governor

Rebecca Kleefisch has tossed her hat into the ring for Wisconsin’s Lieutenant Governor.

Here’s the release:

Former TV news anchor Rebecca Kleefisch announces her candidacy for Wisconsin Lieutenant Governor today. After being encouraged by many of Wisconsin’s business and political leaders, Rebecca announced she will seek the state’s second highest office on an agenda of “kitchen table common sense.”“This election is about ‘kitchen table common sense’,” Kleefisch said her announcement.

“Wisconsin families make tough decisions around their kitchen tables every day, but government doesn’t seem to feel the same pressures you and I do. When you’re in the middle of a recession, you don’t use accounting tricks to fake a balanced budget. You balance it. You don’t tax and regulate businesses out of the state. You create ways for them to grow. And you sure don’t disregard the will of the people who want smaller, more accountable government. You pay attention.”

The UW-Madison graduate and mother of two daughters says she’s running because she can’t afford to watch liberal politicians rob her kids of their futures. She also has a clear vision for the role of the Lieutenant Governor.

“The Governor is the CEO of the state,” Kleefisch said. “The Lieutenant Governor is the Marketing VP. We need someone who understands how to craft compelling, articulate messages for why job creators should come to this state, start up in this state and expand in this state.”

Kleefisch has worked in marketing and public relations in addition to being an award-winning TV and print journalist. Job retention and creation will be her top priority as Lieutenant Governor.

“To change our job forecast, we need to change minds about Wisconsin’s business climate,” Kleefisch said. “I’m confident a Republican administration will right our economic ship, but then we need to reach people with the message that, ‘Wisconsin is open for business again!’”

Kleefisch plans to use her marketing background to attract jobs to Wisconsin. She also plans to showcase the most cutting-edge marketing tools in her own campaign. She’s announcing her candidacy at 11 a.m. via a high-tech closed circuit internet presentation where members of statewide media are invited to ask questions using Facebook, another social media phenomenon. She also plans innovative use of new media, including the use of texting, tweeting and online networking as a platform for messaging and fundraising. Her website is www.Rebeccaforreal.com.

You can read her biography here and see where she stands on the issues here.

The Dems’ Analogy

Folks, you can’t make this stuff up.

The analogy made by Chris Van Hollen of the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee to the special election for the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts:

Why would you hand the keys to the car back to the same guys whose policies drove the economy into the ditch and then walked away from the scene of the accident?

No wonder they’re losing. Using Chappaquiddick analogies in a race to fill the seat once occupied by The Swimmer is an epic FAIL.