“It’s not the Kennedy seat…”
By John Batchelor on January 13, 2010 at 10:30 AM in Current Affairs
The YouTube phenomenon makes it possible to encapsulate the whole of the debate with the lackluster Martha Coakley into one unrehearsed moment of passion and history.
Here is a teachable moment for how to conduct an insurgent campaign against an overwhelming state machine in a change election.
The modesty is salted with a tiger-like leap on the mousey assumption by David Gergen that Scott Brown is unworthy or disrespectful of the history of the Senate seat he aspires to.
Brown quickly returns to the message, but a replay, and another replay, shows that Brown understood that he struck, and that Gergen understood that he had been struck, and the pose of senatorial confidence in both of them right afterwards reinforces the joy of how suddenly history changes.
Brown goes from being a challenger of the once and future Kennedys to being a champion of an alternative future, a post Kennedy Massachusetts.
It is mythologically deft. It is a moment that will stand up long after this contest is resolved.
There are atmospherics in Boston that are arranging to make the January 19 vote a center ring event.
The Patriots are out of the Superbowl hunt, so Sunday is not an obsessive pursuit.
Harry Reid’s antics and endless mea culpas make the Democratic national operation, especially for the Senate, look to be clumsy folly in the hands of punchy pols from Searchlight, Nevada.
The Obama White House has been caught up in the Reid Apology Tour Fizz and is clearly off its game.
Long since in the gossip of the campaign (since September of this year) is that Scott Brown was a Cosmo centerfold in 1982 while he was a Boston College 22 year-old: Brown is now officially the UnKennedy stud.
Robert Gibbs was peculiar to the point of delusional yesterday when he commented on why POTUS was not going to fly to Boston to campaign with Coakley. The Kennedy family may be too late to close this gap. Bill Clinton is sked to go into Back Bay on Friday for Coakley; however this is more of the gossip nightmare of “Game Change,” since the first and only question the media will have to throw is about the “fetch coffee” line that Bill Clinton supposedly told Ted Kennedy about Candidate Obama.
The mania for the Brown vs. Coakley race will overwhelm the background noise of the 60th healthcare vote. Love the rumor that Harry Reid will delay the swearing in of a Brown victory and rush through the vote with the stooge Paul Kirk for Massachusetts. Also love the rumor that the SEIU is going to get out the vote with the usual pranks and perambulating buses makes the expectation of Election Day and voter fraud much more thrilling.
The smart guy ops are claiming that a low turnout favors Brown. This is hooey. Massachusetts is mostly an Independent registered state. A large turnout will indicate that the Indies have decided to have their moment after seven decades of the Kennedy Autopilot. While Massacusetts slept, a kid from BC showed up to start a new narrative.
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