Who Won in Massachusetts?

I think we all won in Massachusetts.

Everyone keeps saying the Dems are in trouble. The Republicans will wash everything out in the next election. I want to believe something totally different.

I think the man Scott Brown won. I think his comments about the seat being the ‘people’s seat’ won him the election. His comments about independent people in Massachusetts bringing him to Washington are true. I would have voted for him. A new politics might be coming to Washington that’s no longer about Democrats and Republicans. It’s about voting the person, or that’s my hope.

Let’s face it, Coakley was a bad choice, lazy and arrogant. Her comment, “What do you want me to do, stand outside Fenway park in the cold and shake hands?” tells the entire story. Yes, that’s exactly what they wanted you to do. They wanted you to go out and listen to the people and tell them what you would do if you were given the gift of going to Washington. News flash. Standing on the shoulders of Ted Kennedy is not the same thing as standing for something.

Now, how will this work moving forward? How can you get something done if you are not part of a party? Can you be a free thinker or do you have to leave your brain behind when you enter the hallowed halls of the Senate? I’m thinking that if this trend against voting a party line and voting a person continues, and I personally hope it does, then how do free thinkers get things through the bulky roadways of our government’s lawmaking that is so entrenched in party politics? That will be the challenge of this new decade. Getting them elected will be easy. Having them be productive is another matter, and might take awhile until there are more of them in Washington.

The Republicans didn’t win anything yesterday in Massachusetts unless Scott Brown breaks his promise to the people who sent him there. If he becomes a conservative Republican voter on the floor, then he will be a one term senator because that is not the voice of those who elected him. The commonwealth won – we hope – an independent thinker who will vote his mind, not his party. That was his promise. That got him elected. Best of luck to you, Scott Brown. Go to Washington and get something done for the people, not the party.