Obama & Democrats: They Had A Dream

I've changed my prediction on the Massachusetts Ted Kennedy Senate seat special election:  Repub Scott Brown whips Dem Martha Coakley Tuesday with a landslide 58 percent.  This is the man of the hour.  The man who screws up Ted Kennedy's health care legacy and Obama's dreams of obscenely expensive and inadequate universal health care. 

Death knell and clarion call for Dems:  the health care bills.  Some House and Senate members who voted for it are witnessing dramatic poll drops.  To wit: bought-off Nebraska Dem holdout Sen. Ben Nelson's poll numbers are down. 

Dem pundits are already spinning a Coakley defeat is not a referendum on Obama. Who drove the health care "narrative?"  Who bullied Congress to ram through bills?  Who refused to play ball with Republicans?

Obama himself is still blaming George W. Bush.  At a MLK Jr. church thing yesterday Obama whined: "I had spoke of a need for unity in this country that our nation was somehow entering into a period of post-partisanship. That didn't work out so well. There was a hope shared by many that life would be better from the moment that I swore that oath. Of course, as we meet here today, one year later, we know the promise of that moment has not yet been fully fulfilled. Because of an era of greed and irresponsibility that sowed the seeds of its own demise, because of persistent economic troubles unaddressed through the generations, because of a banking crisis that brought the financial system to the brink of catastrophe, we are being tested -- in our own lives and as a nation -- as few have been tested before."

The Dem talking point:  blame Bush.  Patrick Kennedy - namesake and RI congressman - appeared with Obama (fending off a heckler) at an 11th hour Massachusetts Coakley rally and either was drunk or had drug-induced amnesia (again) when he mangled Coakley's name to reporters after the thing.  He called her "Marsha" and not "Martha."  Drudge is making a big deal out of this.  Like why?  I'll tell you why.  Kennedy did it on purpose to distance the Kennedy family from the likely loser.  Translation:  We don't know her.

Already media leaks are being planted by Obama insiders that Coakley's dead meat.  Still, the Dems are spending millions in a last-ditch effort.  The Washington Post estimates both candidates will enrich Massachusetts TV stations by $10 mil.

The last thing Coakley needed was a visit by Barack Obama. The president was able to swing voters with his charisma and celebrity during the presidential election.  But historically voters aren't swayed by surrogates getting in their faces - no matter who they are.  Voters see through the transparent, meaningless political bullshit.

The only way Coakley can win is if MSNBC's Chris Matthews and Ed Schultz personally travel to Massachusetts with bags o' vote-buying bucks...