American Surge

Watch Scott Brown and Debra Medina—a political tsunami is sweeping this country, and thank God it is

Scott Brown

The political junkies are lathered up about the Massachusetts special election for the US Senate seat formerly held by Ted Kennedy. Polls show Brown surging ahead; Obama will make a special weekend trip to save the day, and next Tuesday we’ll see the results. Republican PR types like the angle that says even a close race is a win; Democrats haven’t figured out their face-saving strategy in case Coakley loses.

We don’t think the election will be close. Barring ACORN-driven voter fraud, Scott Brown will win decisively, and the American people will see one more reminder of just how fraudulent and outrageously out of touch their mainstream media has become. The Boston Globe’s abject dishonesty in covering the thuggery incident—when one of Coakley’s paid henchmen shoved a Weekly Standard reporter to the ground and then carried out the practiced intimidation tactic of picking him up and then standing in his way and bullying him—was absolutely stunning. They gave Coakley a cover headline labeling the whole thing a reporter’s “stumble”—despite the fact that any interested citizen could watch the full episode on video. This is brazen by anyone’s standards, and represents a new level of disdain for the intelligence of the people. The Globe is driving voters to Brown with this type of blatant dishonesty, but they don’t even know it.

It will be fascinating to watch how the Globe will try over the last weekend of the campaign to turn the election to Coakley. A major hit piece is almost certain (no doubt built around Brown’s posing nude for Cosmopolitan magazine 28 years ago), and sure to be coordinated with the Obama appearance in Massachusetts over the weekend. But we don’t think any of it will matter; it’s transparent; it’s exactly what the American people are so furiously fed up with.

The American people know we are not in a political game. We are not pawns in a chess game played by elitists who rule us. We are the American people, who have thrived under a God-given birthright that affirms individual freedom and responsibility under God as the highest and best sense of ‘government’ ever devised. We are in a struggle for its survival; we know it; and we are not going to be denied by lies or amoral and immoral concepts of authority or force. The American people are rising to see to it that the evil that is this radical leftist assault on America is going to be removed from national, state and local governments.

Debra Medina

Hers is a name that hasn’t made it to the national media; the March 2nd Republican Primary in the state of Texas is still too far away. But we predict you will hear about her, and we wouldn’t be surprised if she pulls off a stunning upset by winning or forcing a runoff for the Republican nomination for Governor of Texas. Here’s why.

The favorites of the Republican establishment are either the incumbent Governor Rick Perry, who has been in office since 2000, or Kay Bailey Hutchison, who has been a US Senator since 1993. Perry hasn’t been a bad Governor; by most measures, Texas has outperformed most other states during his tenure, and he’s won re-election twice. Hutchison, too, hasn’t been a bad Senator, having reflected and stood for the generally conservative views of those who elected her (and she’s also been re-elected twice). So how could they be vulnerable?

First, because their egos are driving their candidacies far more than any passion for principles. Perry has no compelling reason to be running for a third term, except that he likes power and wants to burnish his credentials as a Presidential or Vice-Presidential candidate in 2012 and thinks maintaining his governorship is better for doing so than not. Perry looks and talks like a semi-conservative version of Bill Clinton—which is to say, too slick for his own good. Hutchison has even less reason for seeking the governorship. She has personal reasons for wanting to move from DC back to Texas; she needs something to do; she thinks of herself as Political Class Royalty, and so she thinks she ought to be ‘awarded’ the governorship. Perry messed up the crowning ceremony by deciding to run for another term.

Second, while Perry is far more astute than Hutchison in sensing the people’s anger toward Obama and the radical leftists, both Perry and Hutchison give off the unmistakable air that we are in normal times where normal political banter and argument over tweaks to this or that issue are what the people want to hear. They are dead wrong, especially as to the people who are hell-bent to vote on March 2nd in Texas. And that’s why Debra Medina may shock the political world.

Debra Medina is not glamorous; she is not slick; she is not super-smooth and polished. In all of those respects, she is like most of us. But, like most of us, she’s intelligent; she’s genuine; she doesn’t lie; and she knows the difference between truth and BS. She doesn’t pretend to have all the answers; but she knows the starting point for getting to the right answers is the US Constitution and the Texas Constitution, and adhering to the enduring principles they embody, including limited government, respect for private property, and the rule of law. She is passionate about the rightness of those principles, as most Americans are. And she knows these are not normal times; they are times of unprecedented, radical, unconscionable, unconstitutional government assault on our freedoms and our way of life as Americans. She is a tea partier; Perry and Hutchison are not. Hutchison in particular would much rather stay in her limousine and drive on by the tea party events.

Medina had her shot on stage last night in a three-way debate among the Republican candidates. We don’t bother to read debate reviews by mainstream media pundits (we don’t read anything in the mainstream media anymore), but we suspect most are caught up in the old ways of sizing up debates in terms of who got off the best zingers, who stumbled, who dazzled, etc., as against some mythical perfect Hollywood-style candidate who doesn’t exist and has never existed. For our money, Medina connected. She cares, she is fed up with political elites, she bleeds American/Texan, and she’s unapologetic about the need and duty of political officeholders to honor and abide by constitutional limits on what government can do.

Perry and Hutchison and the Republican establishment have apparently agreed to a second debate which will not include Medina. The people will see this as nothing but pure elitism—more of the same from a Political Class that reeks of condescension toward the American people. Medina will gain even more momentum from that decision.

We think a Medina upset is within reach. Political machine candidates are not what the people are looking for; and the supporters of political machine candidates have nowhere near the energy and passion that Medina supporters have (we wouldn’t be surprised in the least if large numbers of publicly named supporters of both Perry and Hutchison will happily use the privacy of the voting booth to vote for Medina).

An all-American surge is sweeping the country in a nick of time. Even if Scott Brown gets derailed by a late hit by the media and ACORN/union-driven fraud, and even if Debra Medina can’t quite overcome the Texas Republican establishment, their cause is the same: restoring the America of the founding, for the benefit and blessing of all Americans. That cause is going to prevail.

Paul Gable

January 15, 2010