To say that Tuesday’s special election reverberated with a politically deafening din would be an understatement. In the bluest of blue states a Senate seat that had been occupied by Ted Kennedy and Democrats for nearly 50 years had been handily won against the odds of even two weeks before. Scott Brown won by more than 5 percentage points, garnering 75% of Independent votes, and even obtaining an unheard of 47% of union votes. There was even a phenomenon of Democrat votes that went to Brown. The liberals are now scratching their heads, the progressive pundits desperately trying to spin this event into something representing anything but the facts of what happened on the ground in Massachusetts.

Following the “Scott Heard Round the World” we heard from Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and former DNC chair Howard Dean, both in typical liberal fashion that Bush was the reason for the angst in Massachusetts. President Obama went on in an interview to say that people weren’t upset with the events of just the last year, but the last 8 years. Just in case they haven’t looked at the internal polling of the second Boston Revolution, the lack of taking responsibility was one of the reasons the voters went to Brown.

Scott Brown’s resounding win is also being spun by Republicans as signaling the return of their party, which is only true in small part. The Massachusetts state GOP, RNC, and other Republican organizations mostly sat on their hands proclaiming it couldn’t be done. It was thousands of Tea Party Patriots, 912 volunteers, grass-roots conservatives, and a handful of conservative talk radio and TV hosts that organized via Facebook, Twitter, and local/state/national organizations to raise over a million dollars for Scott Brown in a handful of days. Thousands of these same patriots from across the nation called Massachusetts voters for Scott Brown as well.

Many say Massachusetts doesn’t represent America, but in a state where very few Republicans ever win election to major offices, to vote in a Republican candidate to the U.S. Senate, and a conservative one at that goes far beyond the ability to dismiss this as an outlying act in the consideration of the mood of Americans.

Scott Brown’s message was a simple one. He said he would fight tooth and nail to make sure the Democrats couldn’t ram their ill-crafted health care legislation through. He disagreed vocally with the thought of giving constitutional rights to enemy combatants. He recognized and attacked the Democrats for their cover of night creation of legislation behind locked doors where Republicans were not allowed. He criticized the President for his back-door negotiations with big pharma, the insurance companies, and union bosses. Scott Brown didn’t lecture, demean, and speak AT the people; he listened, identified with, and spoke TO the people.

It wasn’t Bush angst, it wasn’t departing from the progressive agenda of the far left, and it wasn’t just a poorly run campaign by Coakley that catapulted Brown to victory in Massachusetts. Even in Obama’s arrogance his weekend stump for Coakley didn’t help her cause, but actually caused the President to expend more of the little political capitol he has in reserves. It was Brown’s ability to successfully capitalize on the genuine frustration of most Americans with the agenda and activities of Obama and Congress. That’s why you see the desperate actions of every Democrat on the hill and in the media working overtime to salvage and strategize and contemplate their next moves.

The message? Not one single Democrat that has voted lock-step against the wishes of the people in any district, liberal stronghold or not, will be safe this November. The Democrats solely own the deserved angst of the American people and this November their voices will be heard louder than any other time in United States history.

Guy Pacot
Frisco, Colorado