Miracle in Massachusetts?

With just two days left until the special Senate election in Massachusetts for the seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy, almost every poll I've seen (including both candidates' internal polls) shows the Republican Scott Brown up by 2 or 3 points (or more).

This is, needless to say, absolutely remarkable. After all, this is Massachusetts...the bluest state in the Union, a liberal Democratic stronghold for decades. Every six years, the people of Massachusetts send the hapless John Kerry and, until his death, sent Teddy Kennedy to the Senate...simply because of the "D" next to their names.

Yet, here we are, just 14 months after Barack Obama's historic election to the presidency (in which he won 62% of the vote in Massachusetts), and a virtually unknown state senator named Scott Brown is poised to give Democratic Attorney General Martha Coakley the electoral scare of her life...or, even more improbably, actually WIN this election.

So what happened? How could this chain of events be possible so soon after Obama's election?

If you listen to a Democrat, they'll tell you this election has nothing to do with Barack Obama or the Democratic Party's national agenda. Just like the governors' races in Virginia and New Jersey in November, Democrats will spin this as a "state" or "local" race rather than a referendum on the Democratic agenda. They are, of course, completely wrong. This race has almost everything to do with the Democratic overreach of the past year, most notably on health care.

Martha Coakley is undoubtedly an awful candidate, as Democrats are already pointing out as they brace themselves for an election loss that seemed absolutely inconceivable just a few weeks ago. But let's be serious- in a state like Massachusetts, even awful candidates win when they have a D next to their name. No, the answer to why Scott Brown may very well win this thing, against all odds, lies squarely upon the clear fact that most Americans completely reject the Left's agenda, as embodied by the Obama-Pelosi-Reid triumvirate.

Think about it. Everyone knows that Scott Brown would become the 41st Republican vote in the United States Senate if he were to win this race...and that means, as Scott Brown has repeatedly pointed out, that he would have the power to stop the health care bill in the Senate (provided it doesn't get rammed through before he is seated). So the voters of Massachusetts, if they favor the Democrats' legislation, will vote for Coakley- even if she's not their ideal candidate. The fact that independents are breaking overwhelmingly for Brown and a sizable minority of Democrats may join them shows just how disenchanted even MASSACHUSETTS residents are with DemCare.

And it's not just health care. It's the budget-busting, profligate spending of Obama-Pelosi-Reid...whether you look at the $787 billion failure known as the stimulus bill, the disastrous cap and trade legislation, or the health care bill. Voters are fed up with government forcing us to live beyond our means. Voters are tired of out-of-touch politicians and faceless bureaucrats taking more and more of their hard-earned dollars and pouring them into expensive, inefficient government programs.

It reminds me of Pac-Man. Ms. Pac-Man is Nancy Pelosi, Mr. Pac-Man is Harry Reid...and they just keep moving to and fro, gobbling up the pellets. The pellets could be your money. Or they could be portions of the private sector, being subjugated by the government and brought under the umbrella of the public sector. Either way, the pellets are being gobbled up, and fast.

But there is hope. After all, in the classic arcade game, Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man aren't able to gorge themselves on pellets with impunity. After a little while, the ghosts appear...and Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man are chased around and hounded...and, if the ghosts are effective enough, they are eventually extinguished. Game Over, the screen flashes.

Well, Scott Brown is one of the ghosts. We have a long way to go, no doubt, but the elections in Virginia and New Jersey, combined with the events unfolding in Massachusetts, make one thing clear: the American people have had enough. The liberal Democratic agenda simply does not have majority support in what remains a center-right nation. Americans are angry, they are upset that Obama-Pelosi-Reid continue to pursue policies that WE DON'T SUPPORT.

Game over.