Brown is no Sam Adams but…

Sam Adams was an agitator, and influential in the original tea party that sparked the American Revolution, and in some ways the Brown campaign for the senate seat in Massachusetts (notice I can spell Massachusetts; twice) is resulting in a similar outcome. The oppression of an over reaching central authority has Massachusetts voters considering an action that will send a message to the “king”, President Obama, that his heavy hand has gone too far. The voters are not throwing tea over board, they are throwing the Democratic Party and socialism overboard by supporting a candidate that has promised to stop healthcare. By sending Brown to DC, Massachusetts voters will have stopped the healthcare takeover and will be sending a stern message that America and Massachusetts still harbor the spirit of Sam Adams and our founding fathers.

Having lived in MA for nearly fifteen years as a Republican I can tell you, this is huge that the seat formerly held by the Grand Poobah of healthcare, socialism, and big government, has a remote possibility of falling into republican hands. I campaigned against Ted Kennedy during the 96 senate run supporting Mitt Romney, and I can tell you Ted Kennedy’s supporters were rabidly socialist.

It could be that MA has a healthcare plan and doesn’t want to pay for a federal plan as well. But I think it is more about a revolution against big intrusive centralized government. It may also be that the spirit of Sam Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere, and Elbridge Gerry, is watching over the future of the great state of Massachusetts and our great nation. After all they did believe in divine providence and were willing to die to achieve freedom from over reaching government. I’m betting that these founders have something to do with this latest battle for freedom…

He Wasn’t That Popular…

The media is attempting to galvanize sympathy and support for Ted Kennedy but he wasn’t popular in the true sense of the word. I would argue his only popularity came with his ability to take from the U.S. treasury to give to his constituents and his brother JFK’s memory. Beyond that no one outside of Massachusetts has much in common with this deeply flawed man.

Here is what a Vatican spokesman had to say, “Back at headquarters, however, there is little room for nuance."Here in Rome Ted Kennedy is nobody. He's a legend with his own constituency," says the Vatican official. "If he had influence in the past it was only with the Archdiocese of Boston and that eventually disappeared too."

If the democrats believe that invoking this guys memory to impose their idea of healthcare reform, they are sadly mistaken. This man will galvanize his opponents more than his limited supporters. You see Ted Kennedy was not a man of the people; he was an elitist in the Senate. He never truly cared about the people or he would not have imposed the government programs that steal people’s dreams, lock them in poverty, and sentence them to a life of despair.

The Senate will never be the same again, and that is good for Americans everywhere…