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Obama Wars Title: Liberals tune out Mass. message Liberals tune out Mass. message So can they hear us now? By Michael Graham Tuesday, January 26, 2010 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. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest Liberals are quite insane politically...as you can see from their commentary in the wake of the Virginia, New Jersey, and MA election defeats...not to mention the polling related to the House and Senate and Obama's 'right track/wrong track'. I've never met a liberal that could admit being wrong.
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