Dear Sensible Democrats,

I know that you exist.  I know in my heart that you must, because I still believe that this is a great country . . . and great countries do not arise from only one political ideology.

I beseech you not to abandon or overlook your better judgment regarding this proposed massive government takeover of health care.  Do not be persuaded by enticing offers of power or money or historic legacies from those extremists who have hijacked your party.  They will not long have the ability to grant such favors.  Do not fall for the misleading statistics and projections regarding the costs and effects that this health reform proposal would cause this country.  The everyday, commonsense people have recognized, as should you, that these vast bills equal great expense and significant government intrusion into everyone’s health care decisions.  Doubt not that the large majority of American people, who oppose this reform, will remember your courage for standing against it and reward you.  Doubt not that the same majority will also remember you, should you fail.

You are the only hope for so many of us Americans.  Every Republican Senator and every Republican Representative, save one, is opposed to these bills.  As President Obama prepares to bypass Senate procedure through reconciliation, they alone are not enough.  But surely such unified opposition sends an important message.  If you believe, as I do, that there are sensible members of the opposing party—does it not give you pause that none of them see merit in the proposed reform?

Time and again, the people of this country have rejected the proposed health care reform . . . during the August recess at town hall meetings; through poll results and marches; and most remarkably, in Massachusetts, where voters gave the Senate seat formerly held by the champion of health care reform to an unknown truck owner who promised to vote against it.  We have done what we can, and now it is your turn.  Please do not let us down.

Dear Sensible Democrats,

I know that you exist.  I know in my heart that you must, because I still believe that this is a great country . . . and great countries do not arise from only one political ideology.

I beseech you not to abandon or overlook your better judgment regarding this proposed massive government takeover of health care.  Do not be persuaded by enticing offers of power or money or historic legacies from those extremists who have hijacked your party.  They will not long have the ability to grant such favors.  Do not fall for the misleading statistics and projections regarding the costs and effects that this health reform proposal would cause this country.  The everyday, commonsense people have recognized, as should you, that these vast bills equal great expense and significant government intrusion into everyone’s health care decisions.  Doubt not that the large majority of American people, who oppose this reform, will remember your courage for standing against it and reward you.  Doubt not that the same majority will also remember you, should you fail.

You are the only hope for so many of us Americans.  Every Republican Senator and every Republican Representative, save one, is opposed to these bills.  As President Obama prepares to bypass Senate procedure through reconciliation, they alone are not enough.  But surely such unified opposition sends an important message.  If you believe, as I do, that there are sensible members of the opposing party—does it not give you pause that none of them see merit in the proposed reform?

Time and again, the people of this country have rejected the proposed health care reform . . . during the August recess at town hall meetings; through poll results and marches; and most remarkably, in Massachusetts, where voters gave the Senate seat formerly held by the champion of health care reform to an unknown truck owner who promised to vote against it.  We have done what we can, and now it is your turn.  Please do not let us down.

I was taken aback by Zogby’s prediction that Coakley would narrowly win the race today. All of the polling information of the past week had seemed so positive and undeniable that, while I remained skeptical myself due to potential fraudulent and unethical election activities, I had assumed the untarnished numbers were clear enough. So I checked them again.

While the Brown lead over Coakley has been generally increasing with each new poll, and hence the Brown +4 and Brown +9 numbers have been heartening, the actual percentage for Brown has been holding relatively steady at 51 or 52 points with only a couple of outliers to either side. Ever since the race became more well-known and Brown began leading, his support numbers have remained mostly level while Coakley’s have eroded. That explains the increase in the polls’ predicted margin of victory for Brown. Unfortunately, that also means that 51 or 52 points may be all Brown can muster, since those abandoning Coakley have not yet decided to vote for Brown. Those voters, perhaps Democrats or liberal independents who have been unimpressed by the Coakley campaign or some of her more egregious blunders, are an unaccounted-for voting bloc. I suspect Zogby anticipates that today, in the end, those voters will overcome their mild dislike of the Coakley campaign and vote for the party and the ideology which they favored initially.

Finally, all of the latest polls are of Likely Voters. Brown supporters have been much more excited and enthusiastic than Coakley’s, which means most of those supporters are already counted. If the unexcited and unenthusiastic liberals who don’t really like Coakley end up going to the polls anyway because this election has become so big a deal, that could skew the final results away from the latest predictions.

All of this is to say that now is not the time for complacency. This moment is still the greatest opportunity we citizens will have to affect the outcome of the health care reform battle. Each and every one of the 51 or 52% of likely Massachusetts voters supporting Scott Brown will be needed. Do not hesitate now. Be not dissuaded by foul weather, busy schedules, or long lines. Go forth and cast your vote. We are all counting on you.

Just as the Ring could only be destroyed by casting it back into the heart of Sauron’s realm where it was created, so to it would seem the health insurance reform bill can only be destroyed by casting it back to Massachusetts, the stronghold of liberal extremism. There, in the home of so many far leftists, the real people of America can make their voices heard. Whether they are left-leaning or right-leaning, independent, Republican, or even Democrat—the average, everyday Americans are our only hope for salvation from the tyranny of the governmental elite. The affairs of the powerful policy-makers in far off lands rarely trouble the majority of general citizens, and they are content to enjoy life in the Shire. That is their great wisdom. But when, from time to time, their peaceful existence is threatened by the intrusion of some new enemy of liberty—be it from outside or from within—these ordinary individuals become far more important than the supposedly mighty.

Just like the Ring, the health insurance reform bill of Obama-Reid-Pelosi has become something far too powerful to be allowed to exist . . . it is, indeed, one bill to rule them all, one bill to find them, one bill to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. Americans have recognized this. Their cries, however—the great weight of public opinion, the many signs of public unrest—have gone unheeded. And now, in a truly remarkable coincidence, they are given one small opportunity to decide the fate of the country. What were the chances that one vote in the Senate would be all that was needed? What was the likelihood that eight months before the next regular election, one Senate seat would be theirs for the choosing? And who could have guessed that the battleground for that choice would be Massachusetts—the old seat of the long-time proponent of universal health care, Ted Kennedy?

There, in the heart of Democratic power, commonsense Americans must find a way to elect a Republican, to defeat for now the greatest threat to our long-enjoyed way of life. If it were a Republican proposal poised to destroy the very idealogical foundations that this country is built upon, doubtless next week’s special election would be in Oklahoma. For, always it is thus, in great endeavors and worthy struggles, the battle is decided in the enemy stronghold, and victory is won by the regular people—unknown and unsung.

It ought rightly to be remembered, should we win the day, that neither the Republican Boromirs who wished to use the bill’s passage to gain future political power, nor the Aragorn-like hero of Scott Brown, nor even the wise Gandalfs of conservative thinkers were the last line of defense for this country. Instead, it will have been the Frodos and Sams who contributed the money, made the phone calls, and walked into the voting booths all over Massachusetts.

So, I bid you, lend your aid in any form to the campaign of Scott Brown. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you.