Column: What the Democrats don't get about Brown's win
24.01.10
Welcome to the Monday-morning quarterbacking forum. Where hindsight is always 20/20. Where everything looks clearer in the rear view mirror. Where success has many fathers and failure is an orphan. Where the blame game becomes a circular firing squad.
I'm just excited to be here.
And I'm hearing mostly what I expected to hear from the losing side, after one of the biggest political upsets in American history. By every measure of conventional wisdom, U.S. Senator-elect Scott Brown shouldn't have won. He shouldn't have even been close to the hallowed "Ted Kennedy seat."
But he did win. So, the biggest immediate scramble is not to get Obamacare in under the wire before Brown is allowed to take his seat. It is to explain it all away.
Martha Coakley, according to those who were touting her as the rightful heir to the Kennedy legacy just days earlier, was a lousy candidate. She ran a lousy campaign. That's it. Nothing else to see here. Move along.
Source: Eagle Tribune