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More Than a Feeling
By jbcobb | January 20, 2010
Although it was cold and foggy in Saint Louis this morning, people all over America will wake up with the feeling like today is the first day of Spring. The air smells better, the sky is bluer, the grass is greener, birds are singing more cheerfully, and our country just might have a chance to survive, after all. While that may be overstating it, conservatives and libertarians, like Eric Dondero, believe that the resurgence of American popular support of traditional values and the Constitution is “more than a feeling“.
It will be interesting, however, to see left-wing spin of the victory of Scott Brown over Kennedy- Obama-Coakley in Massachusetts (I will forego references like Taxachusetts, for today, in deference to their monumental political statement). Most certainly, the left talking heads will claim that this was a local victory which hinged, not on national issues like healthcare, but on personal gaffes by the Democrat regarding baseball loyalties. That is to be expected. But, make no mistake about it, when a state changes the orientation of its horse after 30 years of drinking the kool-aid, there is something going on. If you can pull the lever for a stupid, obese, drunk, felonious nothing for thirty years, why wouldn’t you vote for vacuous party puppet like Coakley? Certainly she is less odious than the DUI guy, right? Was Brown’s good looks enough to sway voters? Let’s see if the left thinks voters were that shallow.
I believe that this is indicative of the sentiment sweeping America. This is but the first wave to hit our shores as the result of the Tea Party phenomenon, the first major backlash against what Americans perceive was a monumental electoral mistake in 2008. What this is NOT, is a repudiation of Democrats in favor of Republicans. If Massachusetts had trotted out a political troll like McCain or Bush, Coakley would have walked into the end zone. Scott Brown embraced the anti-Washington, anti-Big Government, anti-Obama, anti-status quo sentiment of the Tea Party movement, and it paid huge dividends. While you will hear much from the left and the Democrat Party (and Republican Party) hacks to asuage those fears of mass revolt, there is something bigger than a beauty contest between a jackass and an elephant happening right now.
It could just be that many of us feel a little more optimistic right now. Hopefully, it is more than a feeling.
JB
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