Brown vs. the bored: The education comes on Tuesday

The news out of Mass. continues to get better. I keep readng articles about how fired up the Brown voters are and how bored and disinterested the Coakley voters are. If this is really the case, Martha may lose just on the intensity gap. Let's hope so!

Boxer tops

Rasmussen has announced the results of its latest polls in the California Senate election for 2010. As of now, Senator Boxer is leading her potential Republican rivals by 3-6% depending upon the opponent. Carly Fiorina runs the best among the Republicans. The news from the polls, however, is not that Boxer is ahead. In January this does not mean much. Rather, the big news is that Boxer gets 46% in each of the three polls. Normally an incumbent that is below 50% in polls of this sort is considered to be in trouble. After all, the populace already knows Boxer well and less than half support her. Undecideds tend to break heavily for the challenger in races with an entrenched incumbernt like boxer. Simply put, Boxer's seat is truly in play. Maybe she will be forced to let people call her Mrs. Boxer rather than Senator. She truly deserves the new title.

Coakley is holding and Obamathon

With her candidacy sinking faster than the Titanic, martha Coakley has managed to convince the folks at the white House that president obama should come to help her campaign in the final days before the Tuesday's election. To say the least, I am surprised that Obama would agree to do this. Coakley is in full melt down mode. the latest poll shows her now with just 39% of the vote, nearly a dozen points below her previous level. Indeed, the polls have been moving down for Martha so fast that it is unclear where her support level really is. Unless she stops the bleeding, she could lose in a landslide. However, even if she stops the bleeding, she still appears to be substantially behind. Turning that position around would require more than just a visit by Obama. In other words, Obama is lending his credibility to Coakley's victory push at a time when she is no longer likely to win. If she loses the election, it will be more proof that Obama has no ability to drag Democrats into office on the strength of his campaigning. As a result, Obama loses some power. Nice move Obamacrats!

Reiding the tea leaves

Harry Reid's poll number continue to fall in his bid to be re-elected to the Senate. Today's Rasmussen results show Reid with only 36% support against either Republican Sue Lowden or Denny Tarkanian. Reid is behind by 12% and 14% respectively. Given Reid's rat like personality, his ability to mispeak at will ("Obama has no Negro dialect" - tea party goers are "evil mongers", etc.), his business dealings with his sons who are all lobbyists, his hiding the Senate actions from the public, and his pushing a colossus of disaster in the health care bill, I have only one questiion: Who are the fools that comprise the 36% that still support this man? I only hope he decides to stay in the race, so that he can be publicly repudiated by his state in November. His legacy shold be a big defeat --he certainly has earned that.

Scott Brown

I watched the debate between Brown and Coakley in the special election in Massachusetts and I was extremely impressed with Brown. It seems that Coakley was completely out in left field, while Brown was focused and insightful. How could someone actually claim that there are no more terrorists or Taliban in Afghanistan and still hope to be elected to the senate? that had to be Coakley's low point for the evening. Who does she think is killing the US servicement who are dying in that country? Are the deaths all due to traffic accidents? She is an idiot in my opinion. Just imagine what would have happened if Sarah Palin had said the same thing!

It has been quite an amazing ten days

I left for vacation about a week and a half ago and expected things to be relatively quiet. Boy was I wrong. It now seems that Scott Brown has a chance to take the senate race in Massachusetts, Harry Reid is a closet racist, Team Obama can't even manage the TSA, Obama still cannot bring himself to get committed to the war on terror even when the USA is attacked, Obamacare is not the steamroller that it appeared after the Senate passage, Democrats are sinking quickly with sure Republican pickups appearing in places like North Dakota, and, well, you get the picture.

There is a little less than ten months until the November elections. Much can and will happen by that time. Still, things look better now for the GOP than at any time since 2004 in my opinion.

This, of course, leads to the a very difficult choice for Republicans. Should they stand by and watch the Democrats commit suicide, or should they present their own program for the recovery of the USA and allow the voters to choose? I vote for the program and the clear choice. Power should not be an end in itself for a political party or one ends up with nonsense like we are getting now with the Dems. After all, does anyone believe that the current healthcare bills would stand any chance of passage if Democrats voted on the basis of what is best for the country rather than what they perceive to be best for their party? I doubt that any but the most committed ideologue could believe such a thing. Republicans need a program which increases job growth, not just the mantra of lower taxes. They also need a program to reduce government spending and the size of the deficit rather than just announcing the goal. The GOP also needs to have its own view on the healthcare system which it announces. A party view on the War on Terror issues also must be presented. Obviously, the GOP cannot speak with one voice since it does not hold the presidency and has no clear leader as a result. Nevertheless, a coherent set of shared values and positions would go a long way towards restoring the ability of the GOP to heal the damage that it did to itself during Bush's second term.

One last thing is also needed. Republicans need to project a sunny optimism about the country. Not because some consultant tells them to do so, but because they actually believe that things can and will get better. Nastiness may excite the base, but it is a major flop with most people.

Hello 2010

I want to wish you all a happy and healthy 2010.

I will be away for about two weeks on vacation. Hopefully, things will get along without me until then.