In the race for Ted Kennedy?s senatorial seat, the good looking, charismatic Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts pulled off an upset against Democrat Martha Coakley on Tuesday in the special election to replace the late Senator Edward Kennedy, who held this office for forty-six years. Running as an Independent, never really declaring affiliation with the Republican Party, Brown, who was behind in double digits last week, came roaring forward in the last days of the race. With a Carhart jacket and a GMC pick-up truck, he appealed to the average Joe and it worked. Coakley, on the other hand was hesitant to go out and shake hands and didn?t know who Curt Shilling was.
This puts President Obama?s health care agenda in jeopardy; Mr. Brown says he will vote against Obama?s health care bill. The people of Massachusetts have state run health care so getting national health care was no importance to them. However, if they had thought this through more carefully, they would have found that Obama?s bill would be a benefit to them in reforming Medicare and Medicaid. The working man votes against himself one more time.
But if there is anything that comes to the forefront with this, it is that the Democrats had better wake up and take nothing for granted. Martha Coakley seemed to think that because Massachusetts is a blue state, the seat would be handed to her. And President Obama must get out there and sell the health care bill to the people. As it is right now, they don?t know what is good for them.
There is one certainty here, Senator Brown will join the ranks of congressmen in Washington and have the best health care available in the United States, a government run, single pay health care system and ironically he will vote against such a system for the rest of us. And the late Senator Kennedy is rolling in his grave.
It?s all about marketing.
Hannah Stevens is the author of two books, The President?s Wife and its sequel Madam POTUS. She is an avid student of American politics and its affects on the lives of American people and the history of our country.
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