What Brown's victory means...

Scott Brown wins because he grabbed the momentum of the race and never let go. He seems to have impressed voters (based on the "man-on-the-street" interviews that are all over Youtube) most by sticking to the issues and not wavering in his message. He knew he had the "conservative" vote, and focused on selling himself to moderates and "blue dogs" as someone who had ANSWERS to what was not working.

His youth, his charm, his good-looks all helped... image matters, I know. Still, I think his meteoric rise in the polls and his win at the booths comes from his clear, rational opposition to the current liberal agenda. Ryan mentioned the Dems losses in Virginia and New Jersey as well, but I wanted to point out something that we don't hear very much from the big pundits.

Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia, New Hampshire, and even some "bastion states" like New York and California, are beginning to show signs that the people are growing tired of the effects coming from Democratic policy far faster than they are growing tired of the problems the policies themselves are trying to fix. Living where I do, I know many many New Jersey "natives" that have moved to PA to get away from the 142 NEW taxes that have been instituted in that state over the last 18 months, on top of the amazing amount of taxes that were already in place. Add to that the nearly bi-annual budget short falls that NJ sees each and every fiscal year (the last nearly bankrupting the state), and you see why people want "change".

This trend will continue, obviously... history guarantees it. The incumbent President's party always looses seats in Congress during the midterms (at least for the first term). The priority for conservatives (and moderates, frankly) needs to be hands-on, in-your-face debate with the liberal side of Congress and rational, easy-to-understand solutions to real or perceived problems. Whether those problems are health care coverage or tax relief, simply raging against Obama-Pelosi-Reid because their solutions are WRONG isn't enough anymore. Opposition politics are the status quo in a system such as ours, so it is expected and thus loses some of its impact when it is the ONLY alternative point of view.

Rational alternatives are the answer. We can stand up and scream from the mountain-tops that Obama-care is a waste of time and money, but without offering a functioning, viable alternative, where is the gain for the conservative position? I am the first to agree that Obama-care is bad, but as someone that is currently without any sort of health insurance (and so is my wife), I'm also in favor of implementing a plan that allows me an alternative means to gain that coverage during times when I am not covered by an employer health plan. I admit that some alternative ideas have been put forward, but very few and they haven't been pushed hard enough by the conservative-side of Congress as real alternatives.

Obama has surpassed even FDR on "welfare spending" to re-boot our economy. Without rehashing the "New Deal" argument again, FDR and his administrations spent billions to put people to work and prop-up a failing economy through massive government work programs... but Obama and the Pelosi-Reid show are simply handing the money out to banks, auto manufacturers, businesses, insurance companies, and failing government agencies with nearly no over-sight and no plans to recoup the costs in the future besides increased taxes that can ONLY be passed on to the consumer/tax payer.

The dissatisfaction with the current Administration and this Congress is real, and it is growing. It would be easy to simply jump on the "Obama is bad" band wagon... but there is no long-term gain in that act. Real solutions, real debate, and real leadership need to be developed NOW so that come 2012, a real candidate can be run against the liberal agenda in this country. Brown is indicative of why this is so VERY IMPORTANT right now for the conservative movement.