My Dad forwarded me two articles from Boston.com which I disagreed with. I wanted to share the email I wrote back to him and maybe clean it up a little bit for Juice, and really only reflect on one of those articles. Here are those thoughts edited for JTB. They are probably the uninformed rants of a foolish, young online-leftist, but since everyone is shouting I may as well take part.

The article, Coakley Downs In Safe Harbor, reflects the talking point surrounding this whole election, which I think is really insulting and embarrassing. The talking point is that Coakley did not do enough campaigning to win the election and that the people were taken for granted.

At a neighborhood New Year’s Eve party, everyone was talking about Republican Scott Brown’s new television ad … The neighborhood consensus: clever and attention-grabbing. Martha Coakley laughed it off. It was a serious mistake; many others followed. They included a barrage of terrible ads and Coakley’s incredible question about what people expected her to do: stand outside in the cold, shake hands and ask for their vote?

Now Democrats have learned their lesson and will not “take anything for granted.” This is not only acknowledging but embracing stupidity. As the article and the polls clearly point out, Brown started airing commercials on New Years Eve and the polls turned around. Brown was outside of Fenway shaking hands in the cold, and Coakley was not. I guess someone forgot to inform me that the job of a senator was to be a master hand shaker. He is a senator, and is going to disappear to Washington and represent his constituents by voting with his party on every issue.

Wow! That must have been a great commercial

What is insulting here is that all the “swing” voters that ended up leaning towards Brown, which clearly make up a large percent of the population, are reveling in the fact that they just want attention and don’t want to be taken for granted. They don’t have a stance on gay rights, prohibition, abortion, healthcare, war, religion, state, taxes, education, or anything that our legislature is responsible for. They want to vote for the guy who has the best commercial and shakes their hand outside of Fenway. If they did have an opinion, they would have voted for the candidate that was going to represent their views appropriately. Given this election, I am confident that they have no thoughts what-so-ever and that the general populace is ignorant and indifferent.

And what hurts even more is the way this election affects the entire nation. A responsibility was put in the hands of Massachusetts in the same way that Minnesota had a responsibility in Coleman vs. Franken and Connecticut had a responsibility in Lamont vs. Lieberman to vote in a way that tilts the scales on a national level and affects the way the entire Senate is run. This isn’t only about healthcare. Lacking a supermajority, the democrats will struggle in the next 3 years to do anything productive or beneficial because of 41 children that want to watch this country burn so that they can blame it on Obama.

Let’s be honest here. This doesn’t have anything to do with healthcare, anything to do with Obama’s agenda, or anything to do with an angry populace. This is about simple people, a commercial, and a smile. Thanks Massachusetts. Money wins. You sure showed them!

Tags: Brown, Coakley, Ignorance, Massachusetts, politics, Senate

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