HispanicVista Columnists
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Obama Loses It All!
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By
Raoul Lowery Contreras
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Well, the state that started the American War of Independence, supplied “Colored” troops to Abraham Lincoln’s successful effort to preserve the Union and do away with slavery and gave us Babe Ruth, Massachusetts has given us a deathblow to the “change we have been waiting for,” the Presidency of Barack Obama.
The uber-liberal state of Massachusetts has continued its history of denying election victory to women for important offices like Governor or U.S. Senator by electing Republican State Senator Scott Brown (53% - 47%) to replace former Senator Ted Kennedy in a senate seat held by a Kennedy since 1952. This is the first time since 1972 that the state has elected a Republican to the U.S. Senate.
Senator-elect Brown won for myriad reasons
including the fact that Barack Obama campaigned for the Democratic
candidate, Attorney General Martha Coakley, just hours before the polls
opened. Blacks did not turn out to vote for Coakley. Brown campaigned
directly against Obamacare by stating that if he went to
One of the hidden subtle reasons Brown won is that he is a many-year veteran of the Massachusetts National Guard. In fact, he is a Lt. Colonel in the Guard. That, certainly, is a huge reason in the eyes of this U.S. Marine veteran for voting for Brown.
Another reason is that Brown is not a Western or Southern style conservative Republican. He is a Northeastern Republican who understands the Big Tent philosophy that caused Americans to vote more often for Republicans for President than Democrats since 1952.
He is “pro-choice” and I am “pro-life.” Nonetheless, I completely supported him.
Moreover, as a Hispanic veteran I know that he is familiar with the cream of American Hispanics, those who serve to defend the Constitution and the country in uniform, by his serving side by side with them. Thus, Hispanics won this election in addition to killing the fraudulent Obamacare and any number of other Obama initiatives that the people were not aware he would propose as President with a congress dominated by his party.
That dominance is over. Brown provides the 41st vote to kill the Senate’s health care fraud.
We will now see a huge wave of retirements in the Democratic congress by men and women who won districts that Republican John McCain carried in 2008. That will lead to hugely qualified group of young qualified Republican candidates who will sweep the 2010 election and probably bring back a Republican majority in the House and cut down the Democratic Senate majority by 5 or more Democratic losses.
Just 364 days after Barack Obama was sworn in he has now been made more of less irrelevant. He and his liberal cohorts will not pay attention to this political revolution; they will stay the course and try to shove their health care programs down the very throats of the people who have revolted.
Barack Obama lost this election. That is only fitting for he was ill-equipped and unqualified to be President and lost in his egotistical haze of being the “change we have been waiting for.”