After a year of Americans feeling economically vulnerable and insecure, and after the Senate made good on the liberal threat to remake all our health care policies (which 70% of us are just fine with), it is a interesting but not surprising to hear from both camps in the MA Special Election that the Christmas Day Bomber may have actually been the straw that broke the voter’s confidence and unleashed their anger. First from the Brown camp:

On the issues, “people talk about the potency of the health-care issue, but from our own internal polling, the more potent issue here in Massachusetts was terrorism and the treatment of enemy combatants,” says Fehrnstrom. Health care, he says, was helpful in fundraising, but it was the campaign’s focus on national security in the final week that he believes helped to give voters another issue to associate with Brown.

And now from the Coakley camp:

Coakley’s lead dropped significantly after the Senate passed health care reform shortly before Christmas and after the Christmas Eve “bombing” incident.

Coakley claims her campaign was sending warning signals to the WH early on. I don’t doubt it. This is the same team that missed blaring warning signs regarding the two terrorist attacks on our soil which occurred on their watch. It is becoming clear this WH struggles to do one thing right, let alone walk and chew gum at the same time.

Team Obama failed to stimulate the economy and keep America safe from attack. It was the coincidence of pure luck that saved this nation from a Christmas Day horror over Detroit and we all know how close we came to disaster. I think when you combine economic insecurity (high unemployment, the loss of control of your health care) with personal/national security fears you get what we see in MA – overflowing voter anger.

Furthermore, a lot of us suspect it was silly liberal fantasies about national security (no intense interrogations, no chasing down leads from the NSA, lawyering up our enemies and wrapping them in our constitution), which mirrored the silly liberal economic theories underpinning government spending over tax cuts, which made the arrogance of DC liberals so unbearable. What we have are clear examples of political man-made disasters of the liberal making – and we are getting tired of their false promises, their pretending nothing they did is wrong and blaming others.

Screw ups make a difference. You can spin reality only so far – a lesson the Dems are just now beginning to learn.

Tags: 2010 Elections, Brown, Coakley, Obamacare, Stimulus Bill, Terrorism