Not that I know what he is talking about since the chances of me reading a Vampire romance are less than zero, but Douglas Wilson is reading Twilight and writes critiques on each chapter at the Credenda Agenda web site. They are hilarious. The latest is linked here.
I am (predictably) thrilled that Scott Brown won on Tuesday. That said, it never ceases to amaze me how people get so totally overwrought about the least little nothing in the aftermath of such big stories. Two points to consider.
First, people are already speculating about whether Brown will run for President or be Sarah Palin’s VP in 2012. Good grief. The man hasn’t even been sworn in as a senator yet, let alone cast a vote or participated in debate. Why on earth would anyone get this far ahead of themselves?
Second, there’s a pretty dumb kerfuffle going on in certain quarters of the blogosphere about a one-liner in Brown’s victory speech about his daughters being “available.”
Thankfully, Ayla Brown, one of the available daughters, has given an interview where she shows that she has a better grasp that many commentators do:
“I had no idea he was going to do that. I saw the script and there was definitely no mention of that. It was totally off script,” Brown said in a phone interview squeezed in between classes at Boston College.
She admitted that she was slightly embarrassed. “But that’s what gives people a chance to see my real dad.”…
“That is incredible. It just surprises me that people can be so negative,” Ayla said. “I feel as though all fathers across the nation can relate to having daughters and having these conversations…That’s our dad. There’s nothing creepy about it at all.”
Really, this is nuts. I think these people need to lighten up.
This is starting to break into the mainstream press, so perhaps you’ve seen this already. However, it’s such a fascinating potential development, that I have to comment.
Scott Brown is the Republican nominee for the senate seat from Massachusetts that is open as a result of Ted Kennedy’s death. The election is next Tuesday, and pits Brown, a state senator, against Martha Coakley, the sitting state attorney general. Now, MA is probably one of the bluest states in the union. However, the last few polls out on this race have shown it incredibly close, with one poll even showing Brown ahead by a point.
Making matters even more interesting, Brown has made the race an open referendum on ObamaCare, stating forthrightly that he would be the 41st vote to filibuster the existing bill. This has made him an internet phenom - he raised $1M yesterday, mostly in small donations of $5-10 and most coming from out of state.
Yesterday was the last debate, and by all accounts, Brown did very, very well. Quoth Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:
While most of the post-debate attention has focused on Scott Brown’s Reaganesque moment in declaring that the Senate seat doesn’t belong to the Kennedy family or the Democrats but to all Massachusetts voters, Coakley had a Gerald Ford-esque moment on the war in Afghanistan. She declared Afghanistan to be terrorist-free and wants the troops to come home now:
Wow. Sometimes in politics, there are moments that really show you that a tide has turned. I thought Obama’s election was one of those times. Interestingly, now it seems not so much. In fact, if MA elects a Republican to the senate, that will be more than the tide turning - it will be a political tsunami.