[Peace-discuss] Dems to lose 'Kennedy's' Senate seat?

[C. G. Estabrook]

[A liberal medium sees the future?]

	Jennifer Donahue
	January 12, 2010 08:53 AM
	Republicans Have Already Won Massachusetts' Special Election

By virtue of the fact that State Sen. and military JAG Scott Brown had Attorney 
General Martha Coakley are on the defense all night, on Obama's core issues, 
Republicans have already won the debate in Massachusetts and are poised to stay 
up late when the votes are counted Jan. 19th, when voters cast ballots in the 
special election to fill the late Senator Ted Kennedy's seat.

Mind you, this race is not about Ted Kennedy, and there is no way he is resting 
in peace.

This is about how in one year, the day before Obama's first inaugural 
anniversary, Democrats have gone from Superpower status to beating back anything 
moderate or Republican in philosophy.

Even when Coakley had a chance to talk about the case to pull troops out of the 
Middle East, a position she goes abruptly against the President on, she bungled it.

No more troops to Afghanistan is a popular idea in Massachussetts. So how did 
she fail to deliver that message?

Coakley spent more time commending her opponent's military and judicial 
experience than explaining what an exit strategy would look like.

Make no mistake about it, this Special Election is about, as Scott Brown put it, 
whether voters want to give Democrat Martha Coakley the 60th vote in the Senate. 
He wants to be the 41st vote for "the people. For you."

At a time when jobs are scarce, terror is back at orange, and heating oil is 
expensive, not to mention the rent, guess what: after one year, Coakley and the 
Democrats can give up talking about Bush-Cheney-McCain. They need to develop and 
focus on a clear consistent message that comes from the leadership and 
transparency voters mandated a year ago. Change can mean anything. But voters 
did not mean more of the same.

It happens to be a lousy week for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to be under 
attack for word choices and imperfect vote counting. It could just lead to a 
filibuster hungry GOP. And not because they picked up a message. Just because 
they stepped back to watch Democrats try to find their way in a time that is 
perhaps the most challenging to govern in eighty years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jennifer-donahue/republicans-have-already_b_419812.html

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