Washington’s liberal political and media elites are drawing some surprising conclusions from Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts last Tuesday, when the Republican achieved the politically impossible and decisively took the Senate seat held by Democrat icon Ted Kennedy for 47 years.   They are all missing the key lesson.     True, special elections can produce protest votes but the [...]...

SIDESWIPE – Poor Martha Coakley is getting blamed by her party for failing to win the vacant Senate seat in Massachusetts.  But is this really fair?  After all, she wasn’t helped by Rep. Patrick Kennedy repeatedly calling her “Marsha” during one campaign rally.  Come on Patrick, read the signs!  If you can’t get her name [...]...

SIDESWIPE – Over the past year, George W. Bush has been blamed by Democrats from Barack Obama down for just about anything that has a negative connotation, from the status of the war on terror to the economy.  As Republicans celebrated winning Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat this evening, former Democrat Chairman Howard Dean went so far [...]...