Bill Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, wonders --

Now, of course the Democrat Martha Coakley is the overwhelming favorite. But someone might want to commission a poll in Massachusetts to see what might happen if the Senate race could be made a referendum on Obamacare. Brown and Coakley debated last night [December 21], and they clashed on the health care bill. But so far as I can tell, Brown didn’t emphasize that by electing him, the voters of Massachusetts have a chance to save the country from Obamacare. What if there were a massive independent expenditure that made that point? I bet Obamacare isn’t popular even in Massachusetts. And it would be novelistically satisfying if the Democrats lost Ted Kennedy’s seat on the issue of government-run health care, thereby dooming...government-run health care.

If, as Kristol suggests, some national groups fighting this monstrosity of government control which will wreck the world’s best health care system would pick this up and launch a campaign to back Scott, it could happen and he could save the country.

Even though a large majority of Americans oppose Obamacare, the Democrats in Congress see this bill as their ticket to a permanent control of Congress by creating an even larger class of dependents on the government. Michael Ramirez captures too well what the U.S. Senate is doing today, Christmas Eve:

Scott Brown is a superb candidate and would be a strong voice for sanity and independent thinking, values that Congress desperately needs. He could be a deciding vote to save our health care and keep the government out of our health decision-making.

He’s the best Republican candidate for Senate we have had for years and Coakley has done nothing to distinguish herself. She’s running as a "woman" and a Democratic rubber stamp.

Some may have forgotten, but there’s a strong moral reason to reject Coakley as well. As we have been reminded, for her own political purposes, as district attorney of Middlesex County, she took it upon herself to oppose the release from prison after 15 years of Gerald Amirault, a victim of miscarriage of justice in the infamous Fells Acre case. She wanted to show she was a tough prosecutor, even though no one at that time thought Amirault was a danger to society or even guilty in the first place. His mother and sister had been released years before. The parole board had recommended unanimously he be released. But for Coakley's shameful action, he would have been released. Instead, an innocent man served years more so Coakley could bolster her prosecutor image. Three years later a second parole board voted unanimously to free him and at last he was at last able to go home.

As the article on the miscarriage of justice maintains, Coakley is “not fit to be a United States Senator.”

Be sure to vote on Tuesday, January 19th for Scott Brown. If you're going to be away that day, get an absentee ballot to vote. Click on the link for an application for an absentee ballot in Massachusetts. Full instructions are on the form.