Massachusetts hearbreak vs. reality

Scott Brown posed in Cosmopolitan magazine and offered his daughters up as "available". Martha Coakley either didn't care about getting elected or simple assumed the Democratic machine would do all the footwork for her and wring every vote out of their powerful base. Two worthy candidates equally committed to doing their best for the good citizens of the State, the Nation?

Guess not. And in the midst of incredulous Dems circling around, hand-wringing, and professing confusion, we find Massachusetts voters who succumbed to Scott Brown's excellent media campaign that made him a "star" on the level of George Clooney. Modest, confident, pro-active.

Apparently the people of Massachusetts have had it with doing the right thing for the greater good and decided to go with someone who seemed to "get" their micro level concerns and desires.

Martha Coakley had a weak media campaign. Old school. Negative. Harping. Uninspiring. Sad. She never seemed to be much of a candidate. More like someone along for the ride. So the Dems in Mass and the Democrats in DC as well as free-range political operatives cannot blame anyone but their mopey faced reflections. They picked a weak candidate and thought having one at all was enough.

The assumption seemed to be that Democrats who have been the representatives of the working class historically would be seen as the likely saviors for them again. Cutting bankers down to size. Turning around the mortgage fiasco. Summoning the "power to the people" (case is not a mistake) slogan to ignite a trail of compliant Mass voters.

Not so much. Time to rethink why people there did not see the Democrats as capable of doing the right thing. Too little too late? Or just just too little period.