Yes, this usually reserved blogger could think of no more appropriate title for this posting about the Massachusetts U.S. Senate race for the seat vacated by the esteemed and deceased Senator Ted Kennedy.
In one corner, we have a prim Massachusetts Attorney General, whose record includes involvement in a case of pedophile-paranoia in a day-care molestation case, which years later appeared to have been contaminated by child-witness coaching and infantile imaginations. Martha Coakley, whose political stance has seemed neo-Liberal at best to some observers, has managed to garner centrist support from the Democratic mainstream.
In the other corner, we have a former nude model/beauty contestant for Cosmopolitan Magazine, Scott Brown, a Bush-Cheney-style Rightist, now that he's clothed. Think of crossing Mitt Romney with Sarah Palin. Scott, a living Ken doll, brags about driving a pick-up truck with 200,000 miles on it. However, he is an attorney and is married to a local TV reporter, a woman.
Sound Palin-esque enough for you? How does this anti-gay, family-values, pro-life, pro-gun, Republican, nudy pin-up get a pass when he could potentially break the 60 vote Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate? I personally haven't heard any reference to this in the media. Doesn't it point to some potential for hypocrisy to anyone but me?
Perhaps these are the End Times. At least, it is beginning to seem so to this Massachusetts voter, looking to the special election on January 19th.
