"Say whut?"
Answer from Team Obama: "We Know - You Love Us!"
"Just ignore those guys in the voting booth! Those people are crazy!"
There's a point where blind arrogance becomes comic, and we passed the punch line long ago.
The danger for the good guys now is becoming over-confident. The machine is still intact, Soros still has lotsa money, and there are lots of little ACORNs out there.
Well, everybody showed up here. The SEIU, DSCC, MoveOn, the unions, Barry, and the usual local suspects. And it hurt them more then helped them. Mainly because Brown ignored them all and just stayed on his message.
Check out this headline from the Boston Globe-Democrat: "The Message: Loud But Not So Clear."
Not if you're looking on from Uranus...
Latest Globe poll sez Coakley up by 25...
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.A poke in the eye with a sharp stick is more subtle...
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.
"Buncha dumbasses. What were they thinking?"
"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."
Yasss... I can remember how the crowds whooped when Brown released his gay rights manifesto...
"Gay rights?" You see any Brown ads about gay rights?
He didn't? Really? After having had his nekkid picture in a magazine read almost exclusively by gay men?
No. But everybody here remembers that the great unwashed were not considered "enlightened" enough to be allowed to vote on gay marriage by the powers that be up here. They know what's best for us and have no qualms about reminding us of that. Which is a big part of why he won.
Doesn't matter. Liberals can read between the lines: "Brown's campaign unmistakably appealed to men, even beyond the obvious contrast with Coakley.
The fact that he never persecuted any of the Amiraults?
"The truck, the barn jacket, the sports figures giving endorsements all signaled that Brown's campaign was a comfortable home for disaffected men.
... and the wimmin who love them...
"Even his victory party had the look and feel of a beer-fueled tailgate party," Loth wrote.
Looked like your standard-issue election night victory (the word rolls off the tongue!) party, except that his daughter was doing the singing. Oh, and when they immolated James Carville. I guess that wasn't standard...
Sorry there was no cross burning, Renee, Somebody musta forgot the lighter fluid...
My colleague Margery Eagan made the same point on CNN, claiming Brown's win was a victory for the "Gillette Stadium" crowd.
I'll pass on the "Gillette Stadium" jibe, not being familiar with Boston...
That's okay. We don't know either. Madgey the Man Hater musta made it up on her own.
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!
"Yeah, but that was different."
"How wuz it different?"
"I don't wanna talk about it."
Wow - what are they putting in that beer, anyway?
Grits?
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."
Well, actually, that's pretty true. We the People elected B.O. feeling all hopey-changey and we've watched a year-long parade of condescension, arrogance, boodling, and bed-wetting, which leaves us in worse shape today than when he took office. So the voters of Taxachussetts were supposed to vote for more of the same hopey change?
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.
That's what I said...
They'll never get it. Or, by the time they do, it'll be too late for them. Which is fine by me...