How He Did It: Behind The Scott Brown Win

The Globe’s chart showed that if the people had voted for house reps they way they did for Scott Brown, 6 of 10 seats would have gone Republican–up from 0 of 10. As Scott Brown said, “The turning point was when Air Force One landed in Boston.” Obama-3 for 3. Doesn’t get it.
Cram doesn’t work. Several liberal Democrats in Congress said, after the election, “The people have spoken; we need to reconsider this.” Good for them. My favorite comments of the week were, from out of state people, “Welcome back to the US with a 2 party system.” We need both; let’s remember that.

Maybe we’re overanalyzing this as far as “voter anger” and “Democrats vs. Republicans.” The Democrats simply nominated a poor candidate. Brown wouldn’t have defeated Capuano, and Capuano is to the left of Coakley.

I am a lifelong Democrat. I did not vote for Coakley in the primary, but for Mike Capuano (who, I believe would have beat Brown) and I was never impressed with Martha. When I voted last week I put an “x” next to Martha’s name, not to vote FOR her, but to vote AGAINST Brown. I did actually consider voting for Brown, but I don’t agree with the Republican platform and most of what he says. But… he is much more charismatic and “likable” than Coakley.

I voted for Obama for many reasons, chief among them the public option clause in Health Care Reform. Maybe Brown will cause the whole messed up bill to go back and be re-written. While running for president Mr. Obama said “Health care reform without a public option is no option.” I’m one of those Democrats who hates the health care bill as it stands and hope that Brown WILL vote against it. It stinks! If the health insurance companies and drug companies like it, it stinks!

I doubt Capuano would have been elected. This was really a referendum against the health care bill and the view that Democrats believe they are entitled to Massachusetts political positions. The independent voter (now the largest “political party”) won’t vote for candidates who put their party’s views ahead of the public’s interest.

Brown is an ambarassment to Massachusetts. He is the death nail to progressive energy reform in the US and the reduction of CO2 pollution via Cap and Trade. I see large amounts of next generation jobs lost to this State and the US from his bogus positions on taxes at the expense of our environment and technology competitiveness world wide. Many plans for growth into the new energy economy are now on hold because no one wants to invest in the US poor energy and environmental policy. Like all actions, there are consequences. Ours will be less progress toward high quality jobs and the backseat to China, Japan and Europe for the next generation energy solutions. Thanks fellow greed driven Massachusetts citizens for putting yet another George Bush type brain in a position of power.

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By his recent interviews, the world is now free to see that Mr. Brown is not very intelligent or articulate. I’ll bet that there are more than a few Mass voters who have buyer’s regret.

Although he is trained as a lawyer, Brown cannot seem to get simple facts straight.

He has become a laughing stock to the all the citizens of Mass who have a brain.

Mike Capuano would have won if he had gotten the nomination. Martha Coakley won only because the women of Mass were pissed off that the male political establishment threw their convention votes to Obama even though Clilnton carried the state 52-37.

I will now conceed that we made a mistake when we voted for Martha. She was not the right person for the job.

We look forward to taking the seat back in 2012 because Mr. Brown is just not up to the task. He is just another pretty face who posed nude. (This alone should have disqualified him, but, whatever.)

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