Earthquake in Massachusetts – A Political One
The recent election in Massachusetts for United States Senate to fill the seat vacated by the death of former Senator Ted Kennedy was supposed to be just a formality in electing another Democrat. In fact, it was even a surprise to some that a Republican dared to challenge the Democrat’s candidate, Ms. Martha Coakley. But then reality set in for the people in Massachusetts and they listened to the Republican challenger, a man by the name of Scott Brown who was a State Senator. He criss-crossed the state in his truck and spoke to people everywhere he could, expressing his concerns and sharing his plans and ideas with them.
Last Tuesday night, his work coupled with his message paid off. He won the special election decidedly and will be the first Republican holding that seat since 1952. Ever since that year, a Kennedy (first former President Jack and then his younger brother Ted) had won elections, imagine that is altogether nearly 58 years. The rest of the country did not really expect that to happen, Massachusetts residents , ergo voters, had been known to be overwhelmingly liberal and progressive in their attitudes as reflected in their voting patterns.
But what happened last Tuesday in that State was a political earthquake, one that was felt everywhere and there could be huge aftershocks right into this coming November when the mid-term elections will be held across America. As is typical for the political elites, one of the first things that happened since Tuesday was the search for whom and what to blame for this elections’ result. Some thought that Martha Coakley ran a terrible campaign and had too many gaffes, others blamed the White House for not being more supportive and some blamed the Democrat Party leadership for not playing a stronger role in this campaign.
To us here at Common Sense University, they are all missing the point. The truth is that even in liberal Massachusetts, the people will not forever blindly follow the ambitions of a given Party, the Democrat Party in this case. Even in Massachusetts, the people had enough of the Obama agenda of bigger government, a total overhaul of national health care, unlimited deficit spending, wrong policies with regards of the economy and job creation and so on.
Yes, that is precisely what happens and it is reassuring for us to see that the American people throughout the land still have enough common sense to correct course when an extreme agenda is pursued and they know how to do it with the simplest of methods: They simply do not re-elect people who are pursuing such an agenda! And it does not matter whether it is a left-wing or a right-wing agenda, anything extreme will eventually be rejected. This is for us the most important result of this election and it gives us confidence to think that America is and will always be an exceptional country. It is the land of the free and it should remain so!
We cannot predict what the immediate consequences of Scott Brown’s election victory will be. Will he be the one deciding vote that will stop the current healthcare overhaul legislation by voting against it in the Senate? Will the Democrats from President Obama to the Democrat leadership in Congress recognize honestly that it was their agenda that was rejected in Massachusetts? Will these folks in Washington D.C. get a solid dose of reality and look at things more soberly, realistically and less fanatically instead of ideologically? Only time will tell but we believe whatever will be: This election should be a wake-up call for every single one of the elected representatives that they are first and foremost just that: Representatives of the people and that they should listen to the people who send them to Washington. There is hope for America again, the 2008 election results putting a Democrat in the White House and giving the Democrats huge pluralities in Congress have been corrected if not reversed in Massachusetts and it is in our opinion, good for the country as a whole!
As we know, earthquakes normally bring harm to people and areas where they happen, but this kind of earthquake brings only good things to people, we like these kinds.