A Great Week For Conservatives

This week is one of the great weeks in recent memory for conservatives with the election of Scott Brown as the Republican senator from Massachusetts. Then there was the United States supreme court decision striking a major blow to the so-called campaign finance "reform" law, better known as McCain-Feingold. And this for the trifecta. The death of Air America.
Take the Scott Brown win in Massachusetts.
Sen-elect Brown's victory came as a direct result of Democrat hubris. And that hubris led to the willingness of an electorate, even in Massachusetts, to say that enough is enough. The march to an ever increasing government is too much, too fast and not particularly necessary.
Now we have heard a lot about Sen.-elect Brown. That he is not really a conservative. He is a liberal Republican. He voted for the health-care plan known derisively as Romneycare. But all I do know is that he realizes that the federal government is growing at an alarming rate. It is usurping the power of states to determine their own way rather than to kow-tow to a bloated federal government. And, Sen.-elect Brown has voted against the slew of tax increases that give his home state the title of Taxachusetts. I believe that Sen.-elect Brown knows why he is the junior senator to be. And while he will be independent, look for him to be in the mold of fellow New Englander, Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH). And that is a great thing.
Today, the United States supreme court struck down one of the more odious provisions of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance "reform" law. That which continued to bar corporations and labor unions to directly spend on political campaigns. While the left harps on the fact that the eeeeevvvvviiiiilllll corporations are beneficiaries of this decision, so are their labor union allies. It is a great decision because it stops the ridiculous provision of the bill that barred these groups from financing issue ads in the closing days of a political campaign. What the law has set up is a lot of front groups for the corporations, the labor unions, and other groups. It had created more money and more skirting of unrealistic laws. I have no problems with corporations and or labor unions directly participating in the political process. So long as their role is public and above-board, no one should be concerned.
But my real joy is the end of the most flawed business model in this century.
That being the death of the left-wing Air America talk-radio network.
Air America was founded in 2004 by such "luminaries" as now Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn) as a left-wing alternative to conservative talk radio. Well, because it thought that a network of like-minded hosts would be a counterweight to the likes of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh, it was doomed to failure. What the left does not get is that they do not like talk radio. Unless it is unbalanced and unquestioned propaganda on National Public Radio. Or even more left-wing Pacifica radio. The fact is that there is no left-wing talk-radio host that can shine Rush Limbaugh's wing-tips. And no matter how they think that there is, no one has even come close. The Other McCain explains why this was doomed from the beginning. It is a difficult thing for the left to understand. It is called market forces. And market forces do not favor a left-wing version of Rush, Sean, Mark Levin or any of the hosts on the Salem Radio Network.
This has been a great week for conservatives. But we can not, I repeat, can not rest on our laurels. The left never quits. They simply retreat and come to fight another day. Already there are rumblings that the Democrat congress is still trying to ram through the unpopular so-called health-care "reform" scam. Conservatives must be on offense. And in that sense, Sen.-elect Brown showed how to be on offense.
We need to keep it up, fellow conservatives. For the battle of 2010 is just beginning.