The senate race to determine who would replace the position vacated by Ted Kennedy (a political figure I'm NOT sad to have seen move on from this life) was vitally important to the future of our country - politically. It boiled down to 1 issue - which candidate supported Barack Obama's "health care bill". The Democratic candidate Martha Coakley supported the plan while her Republican opponent Scott Brown did not. Brown won, he won in a state that is STRONGLY Democratic - a shot across the bow to the Democratic party and a sign that Americans are waking up to the truth that Obama's "health care bill" is nothing but ANOTHER unnecessary expansion of government and ANOTHER unnecessary entitlement program. The problem was that while this was a political victory - it was a loss morally. There is one issue that both Coakley and Brown agree upon: abortion. To me - someone, like Scott Brown, that doesn't take a core value like the sanctity of life seriously and tries to weasel off into ambiguous gray areas on an issue such as this - is someone of low moral character in the end. While Coakley had her run-ins with core values and moral character - Massachusetts' voters were the victims. Left in a quandary and forced to pick between the lesser of two evils. So while we should celebrate the defeat of Obama's "health care bill," we need to remember who we are cheering for and what he stands for at his CORE....
Credit for this should go to my girlfriend, Laura. This post was inspired by a conversation she started with me about Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts.
Credit for this should go to my girlfriend, Laura. This post was inspired by a conversation she started with me about Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts.