Rally for Scott Brown

I received this from H. about the rally for Scott Brown. Thanks H.

Bruce

I was at the rally in Worcester yesterday afternoon. Supposedly, the doors were to open at Mechanics Hall at three, which was when I arrived, but the hall was already over capacity. I went with the overflow crowd to a ballroom at a nearby hotel, where the proceedings were televised. The crowd in the ballroom was easily over 1500. Scott came down after he finished at the main venue.

It was incredible. You can't imagine how many people from so many different backgrounds and from so many different areas of the State showed up. And, yes, issues were on people's minds, including the obvious ones of fiscal responsibility, healthcare and national security (not written in order of importance). The thing that united everyone and made the proceedings so special, though, can be captured in one sentence -- the one Scott confronted the oleaginous David Gergen with at the debate: ". . . It's the people's seat." It's almost as if Scott has triggered a deeply-held, but almost forgotten, American ideal -- that the government acts with the consent of the governed.

Make no mistake. What's happening in Massachusetts is potentially revolutionary. It will take much time and effort, and many political setbacks along the way, but those people, at this moment believe that Scott represents the politics of the citizen-politician. Having met Scott at the outset of his campaign when it seemed so quixotic, I can attest that he can be instrumental in achieving a tectonic shift in the balance of American political power that, since FDR, has lived off of interest-group coalitions. Just imagine if elected representatives, while of course listening to the leadership of coalitions purporting to speak for their members, actually turned to the members themselves, and to nonmembers, to try to understand what a majority really wants.

If Scott Brown is to be an instrument in moving the country in that direction, working, saving, investing and serving Americans will have to coalesce around similar candidates elsewhere. The hard work is just beginning.

H.