I have a lot to write, a lot. But this is no time for analysis. This is a time for celebration. Everyone should rejoice. Everyone. The consequences of what occured today are historic. We are witnessing and living history. Raise a glass for the lost tribes of these United States. They once were lost, but now they’re found:
For good measure, we’ll claim the Boston Red Sox fight song for one night:
In fact, I’ll claim the Boston fight song for one night too. Dont open if you don’t like celt-punk:
And some more gratuitious Boston parade footage just because I feel like it:
I’m off to Scott Brown’s party at the PP. Eat, drink and be merry.
Moe Lane
Erick Erickson
Jeff Emanuel
Steve Maley
Caleb Howe
Dan Spencer
OY OY OY
SteveLA (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 9:52PM EDT (link)Well might as well make this a full Drop Kick Murphy’s kink of posting. OY OY OY
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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
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Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 10:01PM EDT (link)State of Massachusetts is a great one. How about shipping up to Boston. The DMKs are all Democrats. I know this is driving them crazy.
Do an Irish jig:
Congrats, Swamp Sox.
SoFiMil (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 10:05PM EDT (link)How’s the party over there? I’m going to call you that at least through tonight…and maybe until Scott Brown gets sworn in.
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I'm Already Drunk, and I've Only Been to Pre-parties
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 10:13PM EDT (link)If thats any indication.
Any redstaters heading to the Park Plaza. I’ll buy you a beer.
Just be sure to drink plenty of water
Finrod (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 10:23PM EDT (link)It’ll help reduce the hangover tomorrow. (-:
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Gatorade for breakfast
Erick Brockway (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 11:40PM EDT (link)Re-hydrate yourself first thing, also kills the hangover.
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A joint and a Coke
Warrior (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 9:06AM EDT (link)always used to help me…
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Swamp Yankee, you did an incredible job reporting on this race.
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 10:36PM EDT (link)Seriously, well done. Enjoy your victory, I wish I could have made the drive down.
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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discerningconservative (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 10:38PM EDT (link)Thanks for all of your hard work Swamp Yankee.
Amen to that. THANK YOU, Swamp. (nt)
Third Street (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 10:38PM EDT (link)“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”
You're a New Englander Now
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 10:40PM EDT (link).. it isn’t all bad. Plus, we sure know how to party.
Tonight, We're ALL New Englanders!
Jeffrey Malbis (malbis) (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:28AM EDT (link)Awesome job reporting, Swamp! Thanks.
Enjoy the celebration and the sweet sound of Freedom ringing.
From the 1940 feature film Ghost Breakers, starring the late, great, Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard:
Scientist: “It’s worse than horrible, because a Zombie has no will of his own. You see them some times, walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring.”
Bob Hope: “You mean, like Democrats?”
Let's not get too crazy, now. :)
Third Street (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:32AM EDT (link)My grandparents, who fixed the Mason-Dixon Line at Government Street in Baton Rouge, would never forgive me.
“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”
Thanks Swamp :)
erod (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:50AM EDT (link)I’ll do a shot dedicated to you.
Same here; Yankeedom was the northern county line,
Achance (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 8:12PM EDT (link)and they saw no reason to go past it.
In Vino Veritas
Congratulations Swamp Yankee!! Many happy returns! nt
nessa (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 10:39PM EDT (link)“If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 10:45PM EDT (link)Honestly, it wasn’t until the Gates-Crowley affair did I realize how one lone internet poster could make a difference. I was stunned my some of the personal emails I got. One little voice had so much impact.
Redstate gives the average joe a voice. In Mass, I’m nothing. Just a lone conservative strolling around teh camus of UMass. With the internet, everything changed. Power to the people.
Hey, Swamp Yankee, awesome job!
Cheryl (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 11:11PM EDT (link)thanks for a job well done!
“A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America, than the whole force of the common enemy.” –Samuel Adams
“The administrative state has inserted its big paws into our houses, from the toilet bowl to the light socket. Now if it would just stretch those paws from the one to the other at the same time, we might begin to recapture the spirit of ’76.” –Scott Johnson, Powerlineblog.com
Don't sell yourself short, Swamp.
TNJim (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:42AM EDT (link)You’ve been great in this fight. But after celebrating this win, I do have a question: Do you see any viable Republican considering a run for Kerry’s seat now? (‘scuse me, the other people’s MA senatorial seat).
Swamp...you da man!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you
eburke (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 10:48PM EDT (link)for all that you and your fellow conservatives did to make this happen. You’ve got to be feeling like you’re in some kind of surreal dream – but an awfully sweet one.
Who’d uv ever thought that MA would rescue us from socialism.
Man, this Basil Hayden tastes sweet
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Who Did? You Did EBurke, Its Your Victory. nt
Swamp_Yankee (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 10:55PM EDT (link)Well, my wallet is a few shekels lighter than it was a couple
eburke (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 11:02PM EDT (link)of weeks ago
Actually…it’s *our* victory…the people who work the factories, man the barricades, labor in the offices, and work for family and love of country took the first step in taking back our country from the Marxists.
And for those of you on the front lines of this particular fight – our gratitude for all the phone calls…the shoe leather…the letters…the cajoling of friends and relatives… but especially, your votes for freedom!
“All that need be done for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”
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Swamp, I'm watching Brown's victory speech
ColdWarrior (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 11:07PM EDT (link)And I keep thinking about “that rude bridge.
“We the People” have again organized and united and “fired back” at the enemy. This time, at the ballot box.
Thanks for all you have done on this race.
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tbaleno Tuesday, January 19th at 11:46PM EDT (link)I’m so happy it wasn’t a nail biter and contested. I had fears when Coakely had here lawyer and a press conference this morning about “pre-marked” ballots.
Now obamacare is back in their court. What will they do now. None of the options they are left with are particularly appealing to them and most of the options will end up costing them votes in november.
Congratulations tbaleno. :-) nt
mbecker908 (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 11:51PM EDT (link)Congratulations Swamp Yankee. nt
RoguePolitics (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 11:47PM EDT (link)“So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.” George Orwell
“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what’s going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate?” Will Rogers
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object. Patrick Henry
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Because the Republican Party is NOT going to fix the Republican Party.
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Because Washington is NOT going to fix Washington.
Seriously
khayos Tuesday, January 19th at 11:49PM EDT (link)I was born at Cape Cod Hospital, raised in West Barnstable, own a house in Hyannis… this is truly surreal and I love it!
Congrats and thanks!
redtillimdead (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 11:58PM EDT (link)Thank you to all the people in MA and from around who worked on the ground for the Brown campaign! Thank you for saving America!
Being with Brown since 9/12, never did I imagine that we would be sitting here on Jan.19 talking about his victory! Thanks again to all of you, even those who jumped on board late!
BTW, did anyone see that Brown won Ted Kennedy’s old precinct?
Nancy Pelosi can kiss my asstroturf.
Swamp, redtill and all of you other folks in Massachusetts
penguin2 (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:13AM EDT (link)you are the ones that helped make believers out of us. Had watched your suffering, but did not think it would ever change. It was you people letting us here at RedState know about the situation and candidate, that made a big difference. Today, I was thinking about the chains of the Dem yoke falling to the ground, and the people of your state being free. Red, incredible that he won Kennedy’s precinct!
Thank you Swamp, for the postings, your work and your heart that you put into this race. We know that what was done in Massachusetts can be done almost anywhere in this nation.
We the people – nothing’s gonna stop us now!
Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God. – Benjamin Franklin
When Good stands up to Evil, Evil blinks. – Vassar Bushmills
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Erick Brockway (Diary) Tuesday, January 19th at 11:58PM EDT (link)“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
Sir Winston Churchill, (1874 – 1965) Speech in November 1942
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Made after the victory
Warrior (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 9:16AM EDT (link)at the second battle of El Alamein (Nov 2,3 & 4, 1942), Britain’s first major land battle win in almost three years, indeed, in the entire war up to that point. I hope the analogy holds, because it started the rout of the Germans and has been called the “turning point of WWII.”
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Nice job Swampy
NeoKong (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:03AM EDT (link)U da man.
I’m sure you will be a little tired when you read this.
Thanks for your hard work big fella.
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joliefleurs Wednesday, January 20th at 12:05AM EDT (link)thank you, sir, for all your hard work!!
Thanks for leading the way Swamp.
ceili_dancer (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:07AM EDT (link)Thanks to everyone nationwide, everyone helped with this. Most importantly Mucho Thanks to the folks up in Mass. without the huge turnout and such a large margin that it would be near impossible for someone to steal this one. Does anyone know if with such a large margin, will the Sec. of State certify quickly?
Nice Job
Black River Wolf (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:09AM EDT (link)Never think that one person cannot make an impact. We all can make a difference.
Thanks to Red State and many other places like it, we can all be heard and not be the Silent Majority.
We are the Majority and can take this country back.
Congrats and have a beer for me
“In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame,
two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”—-John Adams
Thank you Swamp for all of your hard work.
Danielle Davis (ocleverone) (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:13AM EDT (link)And thank you the voters of MA for sending a clear, no-nonsense message to Washington this evening.
A grateful nation thanks you.
To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it. — Margaret Thatcher
Congrats!
acat (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:30AM EDT (link)I may get some static from MA over this, but I’ve always been more of a Standells fan.
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Congratulations to Senator-elect Scott Brown (R-MA) * and everyone who helped put him there.
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* I just love writing R-MA. It’s got a .. weight .. to it.
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Congrats Swamp
proudgop (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 12:55AM EDT (link)Now in Mass its time to dump Obama’s buddy Gov Patrick
I hope this win allows some of these congressional seats in Mass to be contested now
Congrats
m_quick Wednesday, January 20th at 12:59AM EDT (link)I first learned of this race here and watching it bloom into the beautiful flower it is now has been a real treat.
Thanks!
Swamp_Yankee: Most Reliable Political Reporter of the Year!
Laura (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:53AM EDT (link)I echo what others here have said…without you, I would not have heard of Scott Brown until Hannity interviewed him. As it was, I had already donated by that time, thanks to you!
Your reporting, especially the stats on the bellwethers, was *above and beyond* the call of duty!
May the nation follow Massachusett(e)s’s lead…starting with my own home state of Illinois, which tonight, looks a little redder around the edges….
You lit the torch, Swamp! Thanks so much!
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gekster (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 1:58AM EDT (link)I didn’t want to pile on, but way to go.
With all the accolades, let me know if you need a bigger hat.
I’ll send you a RedWings.
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
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“Hopeless and Changeless”
BRAVO ZULU nt
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Scott Brown has dropped his gauntlet....
Cargosquid (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 8:11AM EDT (link)I think this describes his campaign PERFECTLY.
Dropkick Murphys
“The Gauntlet”
Well I just got back from a break in the fight
I was weighing in heavy but still feeling alright
all I hear in the distance – mines and shells
here come the sirens wailing another attack to be repelled
Do you think we’re gonna make it?
I don’t know unless we try
you could sit here scared to move
or we could take them by surprise
it’s submission that they want
it’s surrender that they need
when we’re doing it their way
their aims will be achieved
They’re gonna come when you’re not ready
when you’re not too well-prepared
they’re gonna prey upon your weakness
no man’s soul is ever spared
you’ve got to stand up, yeah, and fight them
show them what it’s all about
this man is not for sale
there will be no backing down.
[Chorus:]
Stand up and fight and I’ll stand up with you
We shall succeed,
Stand up and fight and I’ll stand up with you
They won’t get me, they won’t get me
though they never cease to try
they won’t get me, they won’t get me
I would rather fight and die
they won’t get me, they won’t get me
well my friend will they get you?
when they get you, when they get you
tell me what you’re gonna do?
Do you think we’re gonna make it?
I don’t know unless we try
you could sit here scared to move
or we could take them by surprise
it’s submission that they want
it’s surrender that they need
when we’re doing it their way
their aims will be achieved.
They’re gonna come when you’re not ready
when you’re not too well-prepared
they’re gonna prey upon your weakness
no man’s soul is ever spared
you’ve got to stand up, yeah, and fight them
show them what it’s all about
this man is not for sale
there will be no backing down.
[Chorus: x2]
Stand up and fight and I’ll stand up with you
We shall succeed
Stand up and fight and I’ll stand up with you
Congrats Swamp!
Warrior (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 9:23AM EDT (link)keep fightinng the good fight and running the race to the end.
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
This is Ted's legacy!
Warrior (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 9:24AM EDT (link)WE ARE THE MACHINE NOW!
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
Nice nt
AndrewHyman (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 10:00AM EDT (link)This is huge for MA Repubs
MGamo (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 10:54AM EDT (link)For a while, I’ve been pretty much in discontent since the 08 election with politics and wondering whether a conservative in Boston could do anything, but Scott fired me up, got me back to volunteering and re-engaged in Redstate and other forums, and its uplifting to see how much work Swamp has put into this and with us winning, we can push forward into taking some rep seats.
“A man who never quits is never defeated.” – Fred D. Thompson
Well Swamp you are the Paul Revere of Scott Browns campaign...
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Wednesday, January 20th at 8:00PM EDT (link)You came here to tell us of this Revolutionary and you warned us that if WE didn’t help that WE would get stuck with obamacare and if WE did help that this great man would be the 41st vote against it. I THANK YOU for telling us about this man who made my heart swell up in my chest when he spoke of NO lawyers for terrorists. He talked to me as I would talk to my friends because he is RIGHT there are a few things that all Americans agree on and for that WE will have a common cause. It is the progressives and their traitorous agenda that separates them from the rest of America. It is their agenda that WE WILL STOP and Scott Brown is JUST THE BEGINNING!
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Great post swamp!
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