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Liberals Tune Out Mass. Message (The Blind Leading The Dummies Alert)
Boston Herald ^ | 1/26/2010 | Michael Graham

Posted on 01/26/2010 12:10:47 AM PST by goldstategop

My favorite e-mail after Scott Brown’s stunning Senate victory: “Can You Hear Us NOW?”

Answer from Team Obama: “We Know - You Love Us!”

There’s a point where blind arrogance becomes comic, and we passed the punch line long ago. Check out this headline from the Boston Globe-Democrat:

“The Message: Loud But Not So Clear.”

Not clear to whom? Bad policies and even worse politics drove this blue state to replace Ted Kennedy with a fiscally-conservative Republican. It wasn’t exactly a subtle message.

And yet it’s still lost on folks like Globie Renee Loth, still defending the liberal status quo. Loth blamed Democrat Martha Coakley’s once-unthinkable defeat on the poor quality of our voters.

“Brown didn’t run a hate campaign,” Loth conceded, “but he did become the locus for a broad variety of resentments, from people angry over the state’s sales tax increase to changes in their health care to gay rights.”

“Gay rights?” You see any Brown ads about gay rights? Doesn’t matter. Liberals can read between the lines:

“Brown’s campaign unmistakably appealed to men, even beyond the obvious contrast with Coakley. The truck, the barn jacket, the sports figures giving endorsements all signaled that Brown’s campaign was a comfortable home for disaffected men. Even his victory party had the look and feel of a beer-fueled tailgate party,” Loth wrote.

My colleague Margery Eagan made the same point on CNN, claiming Brown’s win was a victory for the “Gillette Stadium” crowd.

Who knew that the key electorate here was beer-swilling, truck-loving, testosterone-addled, homophobic white men? This from a state that elected Deval Patrick governor and, just a year ago, gave Barack Obama a 26-point win!

Wow - what are they putting in that beer, anyway?

This “logic” may be laughable, but it makes perfect sense to the liberal elites.

“Mobs Rule” was the headline for New York Times [NYT] columnist Charles Blow. “Welcome to the mob: an angry, wounded electorate, riled by recession, careening across the political spectrum, still craving change, nursing a bloodlust.”

These ignorant voters who are “too easily manipulated” acted in irrational anger, Blow insists. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that Team Obama’s first year in office has been a stumbling, inept and expensive mess.

Then on Sunday, White House flak Robert Gibbs joined the spin cycle. On Fox News, Gibbs insisted Brown’s victory showed Massachusetts voters’ support for Obama policies.

When confronted with the fact that Brown ran against Obamacare, denounced the president’s policy on captured terrorists and opposes Obama’s planned tax increases, Gibbs replied: “That may be what he campaigned on but that’s not why the voters of Massachusetts sent him to Washington.”

You elected the 41st “no” vote, but you were saying “yes” to Obamacare. You replaced Ted Kennedy with a Republican, but you really wanted more liberalism.

Boy, Massachusetts really must have the dumbest voters ever. We can’t seem to do anything right - not even send a message to Washington. But I think we voters are getting the message liberal Democrats are sending back to us.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2010elections; bostonherald; democraticparty; democrats; elections; liberalcontempt; liberalism; ma2010; mamiracle; michaelgraham; scottbrown
The liberal blind are leading the liberal dummies. According to the Democrats, Massachusetts voters sent no message at all. And indeed, they are in no hurry to seat Scott Brown in the US Senate - they seated Ted Kennedy in 1962 within 24 hours of his election victory. So in a way they're showing Massachusetts they could care less for the fact the state has no elected Senate representation for some weeks to come. After all, its supposed to be a message liberals are sending Massachusetts rather than the other way around: your vote means nothing to us. Indeed.

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1 posted on 01/26/2010 12:10:47 AM PST by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop
"The Message: Loud But Not So Clear"

The message is, "Obama is the kiss of death to campaigners".

Chosen prediction: Hussein bin Obama al-Kenyata will only campaign in safe democrat districts and then only at private fundraisers.

yitbos

2 posted on 01/26/2010 12:22:38 AM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: goldstategop

If liberals weren’t so dumb they’d really be a problem.


3 posted on 01/26/2010 12:38:40 AM PST by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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To: goldstategop; All

4 posted on 01/26/2010 2:25:43 AM PST by backhoe (All Across America, the Lights are being relit again...)
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To: goldstategop

The Kenyan is a ONE TERMER!


5 posted on 01/26/2010 5:23:15 AM PST by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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To: goldstategop; Bokababe

Feminazi Renee Loth is a notorious Serbophobe and Orthodox-hater. She is a former staffer for the Boston area hippie paper “The Boston Phoenix”, who owes her position to the New York Times, which bought the Globe some years ago. Once she became editorial page editor, she started bashing the entire Serbian people, even though Slobodan Milosevic was already gone from power!

What can you expect from such an individual but to bash all the people of Massachusetts, as if they were Serbs?

The “progressives” and obamaites are not dumb—they are suffering from a classic case of hardness of heart. The people of Massachusetts have spoken clearly—NO DeathCare, NO cap’n-trade, cut taxes—don’t make new ones, don’t coddle muslim terrorists, throw out the obama agenda and concentrate on jobs instead. Enough is enough!!!!

But the “progressives” don’t want to hear that message, so they are pushing ahead with the radical, communistic, pro-muslim obama agenda!!!!


6 posted on 01/26/2010 7:37:53 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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