#41

Scott Brown somehow managed to kick over the apple cart.

And listening to Barney Fwank, Kerry and others ... Liberals and Democrats still don't get it. The people that voted for Brown were not the "intellectual elite", they were working people, small business owners, contractors ... taxpayers. The supporters of the Democrat machine are NOT Scott Brown voters. Nor are the voters in the precincts of the Berkshires, Middlesex County (that's Cambridge that voted 88% for Coakley), or Provincetown (84% Coakley) or Martha's Vineyard (about 70% blended for Coakley). Newton ... home of Bawney Fwank ... 74%. Coakley, Concord, Lexington and Lincoln ... about 65% in the Democrat tank. Boston ... 70+% Some of the richest towns in the State.

No. Scott Brown voters came from Hingham, Dedham, Woburn, Saugus, Plymouth, the North Shore, the Lower Cape, Gloucester ... and by better than 10%. Places where people work and pay taxes. Middle class and working class people, NOT the Democrat/Liberal idea of Republican rich. Woburn!!! A defunct mill town, a hockey town, a town of their beloved High School football team, the Tanners. Yet, they voted Brown.

You see, the reality is this: the Democratic Party largely represents the rich, intellectual elite and poor welfare recipients ... the people that the Liberal rich wish to support to assuage their guilt at being rich. The ideologically motivated. Not a lot of self-made wealthy in that group: those people have to work hard and fight to keep the rewards of their labor. The welfare-poor obviously have a lot to gain from Democrats, as theirs are the pockets that the self-appointed Robin Hoods of Lexington wish to fill. The Newton rich? Their political choices are dictated by culture and mass psychosis: they still vote for Bwaney Fwank.

The poor wishing to work and "make it" voted for Scott Brown, someone whose mother was on Welfare. Someone who modeled to put himself through law school, someone who served over 20 years in the military -- itself long the refuge of the American poor wishing to succeed in the American Dream.

People wishing to save to own a little house that they can afford without a handout ... voted for Brown. Policemen and firemen ... voted for Brown. Small contractors, guys with a few pickups and a small crew of men dependent on them for bread on the table ... voted for Brown. Fishermen in Gloucester ... voted for Brown. Hairdressers in Andover ... voted for Brown.

Regular Americans voted for Brown.

And that is what this election represents: regular Americans electing one of their own, someone outside the political elite, a hockey Dad, someone who started with zilch and is going to go to Washington. It echos a '30's movie starring Jimmy Stewart. Democrats do not understand the the party of the Regular American is increasingly Republican by default -- the Regular American is most likely an Independent. If there was a socially responsible choice, small "c" conservative, with a humanistic flavor, then Regular Americans would vote that way. Somehow Obama conned them into believing that he might be that person. No more.

The 2008 election was not a mandate for a Liberal revolution. It was the product of disgust with a Republican leadership that was out of touch. This election, in the MOST liberal state in the nation, repudiates the notion of a mandate completely. It proclaims loudly and clearly that America is still dominated by a sensible majority and want sensible government. And that does not mean the Obama - Pelosi - Reid agenda. The People have spoken through the ballot box: "I will not be ignored. I will not be bullied. I will not lie down while you steal the fruits of my labor. DON'T TREAD ON ME!!!"

Mr. Obama, there are tea chests floating in Boston Harbor, and as it was with King George, your time is up. There is a lantern in the Old North Church lit once more by the people of the Commonwealth, and the American People are on the other side waiting for the signal.

People all over America have woken up to a new possibility, the political awakening of the Average Jane/Joe. And THAT is not good news for Democrats.