| Gabriel Gomez for US Senate |
Why did Brown win in 2010? Pundits argue that the Democratic Party machine was not paying attention, and Brown took advantage of the slothful disarray. In reality, President Obama was an anchor on the national conference, hurting candidates even in reliably blue bastions of liberal sentiment. He hurt the Democratic Gubernatorial candidates in New Jersey and Virginia in 2009, and he killed his Democratic Majorities in 2010 in the House while diminishing his delegation in the US Senate.
In 2012, the standard bearer for the Republican Party was weaker than President Obama, and definitely than the US Senate candidate running for reelection in Massachusetts. Romney was a confused general election Presidential contender who had tacked too far to the right during the primaries against raging opponents and a ravenous media willing to highlight discrepancies. Furthermore, Romney ran for office more out of obligation than voluntary ambition, and he refused to honor statewide candidates in US Senate or Congressional races when they were struggling to make traction in otherwise winnable contests. Romney commanded little respect with the national electorate, including more conservative Republicans who doubted his credentials. The reluctance lasted for months, and long enough that three million Republicans stayed home on election night. A stronger, more unifying GOP Presidential candidate would have strengthened US Senator Scott Brown's election chances hand, and he would be in the Senate serving his first full term. Many are confident that there will be a Governor Brown in Massachusetts in 2014.
The troubling legacy of a bad standard-bearer, or a bad standard, has frustrated campaign opportunities before. US Senator John Kerry faced the same challenge in 2004 that Mitt Romney faced and fell to in 2012: an incumbent with no primary challenger and no third party dragging away votes. Losing his chance to be President, Kerry then took the offer to serve for the chief executive when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton opted to step down in 2012.John Kerry, the second choice for the office, took the assignment, thus opening up the third US Senate race in three years in the Bay State. With this background mind, and with the US Senate special election primaries ended, Navy Seal Gabriel Gomez will challenge Markey for the vacant US Senate seat.
Indeed, Massachusetts is a liberal bastion. There is a time and a place for government to move in more strongly for those who are in need. In the long run, it would be better to help people out of need than to prolong their dependence, and certainly with the help of someone whose livelihood has depended on more than government. Liberal Congressman Edward Markey has "served" in Congress for nearly thirty-seven years. While still a law student, he ran for the office, and he has stayed in office all this time. A career politician like Markey has no business making the government his business, especially when his claim to fame is . . . "Cap and Trade".
This bill, pushed in 2009 with the assistance of fellow virulent liberal Henry Waxman (D-California), would have raised a tax on all carbon, which in effect would tax every form of energy. Requiring businesses to purchase a "carbon credit" creates a third-party racket for profiteers to plunder businesses, agriculture, and economic enterprises. The program in Europe created wild speculation, more pollution, and higher fuel prices. The whole scheme is a Wall Street-style scam.
Yet Markey to this day stands by his abortive bill, which did not have a chance of passing in the Democratically-controlled Senate, where statewide business interests pressured their lawmakers to reject the bill. West Virginia's Joe Manchin ran for the US Senate, pledging that he would shut down Cap and Trade, even shooting a bullet through the bill in one campaign commercial.
Gomez, a former naval pilot and Navy Seal, has worked in private equity for the last twelve years. Private sector experience is a must in this crucial time. His training in national security with a better understanding of the daily lives of Bay State residents is a plus for Gomez, while locals to this day complain that they have not seen much of Ed Markey in his local district. The bombings during the Boston Marathon should remind every Massachusetts voter that moral equivalence in the face of latent terrorism is a losing proposition, one which President Obama and the Democratic Pary do not seem to take seriously.
Markey-Obama policies are killing the middle class and taking away chances for the working class. President Obama once again is dragging down his own party as well as the entire country, from ObamaCare, with high taxes and regulations spiraling out of control, to stagnant employment, to food stamps for 43 million Americans, and a staggering foreign policy which has emboldened Islamist radicals in the Middle East. Besides, what good is a politician who pushes everything but the better solutions for the better interests of Bay State voters?
Markey is "All Miss" and No Hit. Go for Gomez. Vote for Gabriel Gomez for US Senate on June 25.
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