Conor And Andy: Pattycake, Pattycake, ...

Andy elevates infamous underblogger Conor to linked blogger status today. Evidently, these two great minds are so confounded by the results in Massachusetts, all they can do is take a swipe at any one with an ideology who purports to be able to explain them. I suspect that's because they at least know the folks they'd most like to agree with on the Left are wrong. However, they can't quite get their heads around admitting that some of us on the Right are correct. There is no rocket science needed to figure it out.

It is particularly amusing to see folks call the outcome stunning in one breath and aver in the next that they can explain why it happened mere hours after the fact, without any new data save the result. This is especially grating when it’s so obvious that the election turned on all the issues that were most important to me, that the outcome so clearly vindicates my world view, and that the wisest course in light of the results is for both parties to do exactly what I’ve been advocating for all along.

If the Leftists now saying go Left young Oba-man, are to be believed, than why hasn't health care reform already passed? It's their party with an alleged iron grip on Washington that's calling the tune. More to the point, where were the massive rallies and protests in Mass. calling for Obama's agenda be confirmed by sending Coakley to the Senate?

They weren't there, as it's only some relatively small number of progressives focused within the Beltway, with some scattered across the many states, that support that view. There's no there there. Not even Obama could make them appear.

Meanwhile the good citizens of Massachusetts lined up around the block to vote for Scott Brown. We've only to look at what Brown was telling them to figure out their rationale. I'd add a strong national defense, as Brown really did play that up to a surprising degree. Otherwise, this is it. Unfortunately, as it runs contrary to Andy's Obama fixation, while not answering his gay marriage fixation - and isn't quite nuanced enough to where it says nothing at all for Conor to view as enlightened, all they can do is throw up their hands and play pattycake, pattycake, everyone is as frustrated and clueless as us. But, I really do like your hands.

Polls show that most Americans want smaller government, even with fewer “services.” Running on a platform that money’s better kept in voters’ own pockets, rather than handed over to special interest logrolling and vote-buying, will work: If it’ll work in Massachusetts, it should work pretty much anywhere. It is a fashionably-gloomy line among some on the right to say that the country’s too far gone in statism and the government-handout parasite culture to support such an approach — but again, if you can make it with this in Massachusetts, you can make it pretty much anywhere.

Comments

[Allen G]

"Polls show that most Americans want smaller government, even with fewer “services.” "

Can I get an "AMEN!"?

Ladies and Gentlemen, it's time to start running on the three-year-old platform: "I can do it by myself." We don't need Government to "take care" of us- we'll be just fine all on our own. And, no, if I break something, I don't want Government to "kiss it better." I want them to say, quite truthfully, "sometimes we fall down."

[North Dallas Thirty]

Conor was against Scott Brown before he was for Scott Brown.