Not exactly a “Down goes Frazier” or “The Giants win the pennant moment” — Martha Croakley Coakley was an awful, awful candidate from the get go. One gets the impression that in any state not so Uberliberal as Taxachusetts a trained monkey could have defeated her, no disrespect to Scott Brown. Indeed, it underscores the imperial hubris of the Democrats, that they were arrogant enough to think they could without repercussions attempt to sell this charisma-lacking lousy candidate to the people of Massachusetts.
But don’t think the Chicago political machine will go down without a fight.
Mainstream media mouthpieces for the Democratic Party have previously and unabashedly announced their true feelings about Democracy with MSNBC’s Ed Schultz digging in, saying “if I could vote 20 times, that’s what I’d do.” (Ed says his critics are “nutjobs.”) Nutjobs they may be, but they don’t promote election fraud.
I’m sure we’ll have activist groups coming out of the woodwork to attempt to recount or commit lawfare to prevent Brown’s certification too. Then again, Coakley was so bad a candidate that Brown appears at least right now to be enough ahead that such a strategy wouldn’t be feasible.
Other Democrats (John Kerry) have indicated that they’ll purposely refuse or delay any election certification. Again, what lovers of Democracy are the Democratic Party leadership!
Best guffaw of the day: Barney Frank discovers a “constitutional crisis” via the 60-vote filibuster rule, a rule which Democrats have both championed and enjoyed but which Mr. Frank now finds unconstitutional. Enjoy that crow, Barney, try not to choke on it.
What’s next? Think the Democrats might try to get a fence-sitting Republican to switch parties?