By Mr. Curmudgeon
In a display of just how tone deaf Democrats are to the outrage and anger building in America over totalitarian ObamaCare, its author boarded Air Force One and winged his way to Massachusetts to demand its voters elect ObamaCare’s sixtieth vote. “If you were fired up in the last election,” said the president, “I need you more fired up in this election.” Republican Scott Brown and the Tea Party could not agree more.
The polls are mixed. Rasmussen calculates that Democrat Martha Coakely has a slight lead, 49% to Brown’s 47%. Democratic pollster Mark Mellman says Coakely leads by 14 points. Conservative website Pajamas Media gives Brown a 15 point lead. Mark Blumenthal, editor at pollster.com, told the Boston Globe, “No one really knows anything about the electorate that is going to show up. We don’t have any experience with special elections held in Massachusetts in early January.”
I could be wrong, but I have a theory. I call it Vegas remorse. I think the single biggest deciding feature in the Massachusetts special election is ObamaCare. The carefree citizens of Massachusetts kept sending the pie-eyed Teddy to Washington for forty-seven years. But Kennedy’s harebrained schemes to socialize America were always held in check by his slightly more sober Senate colleagues. The nation, however, threw sobriety to the wind last November. Now Massachusetts’s voters feel the same hung-over remorse as a Las Vegas high roller who awakes to find himself married to an ugly stranger that once looked so good – after the 12th Mojito. It’s understandable if Vegas remorse makes Massachusetts’s poll respondents less than honest in their answers. They want the divorce to be handled quietly and discretely – within the confines of the voting booth.
By showing up in Massachusetts, President Obama is like the quickie wedding chapel minister who runs into one of his regretful clients and asks, “how’s the wife?”
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