The Best Thing to Happen to Democrats In a Long Time

Martha Coakley's loss of the late Senator Ted Kennedy's senate seat to Scott Brown is the best thing to happen to Democrats in a long time.  Why?  They have to adjust now.  This is the scenerio that would have hit them in the midterm election anyway, but now they'll be able to adjust a year earlier, and prepare for life after the super majority.

The lesson is clear.  The Dems first year focus is not what most Americans care about.  Here's a question for you.  Minus your most liberal friends, do you know anyone cares about the public option?  I don't care about it and I can honestly say I only know three people in my immediate circle of friends, family, and coworkers who ever talk about it as an issue that is important to them.  What they all talk about though, is the economy.

Coakley was a terrible candidate, but she was where liberal Democrats wanted her to be on all the big issues, and it didn't matter.  Most Americans want solutions to problems, not ideology, and the sooner the Democrats realize that, the sooner they'll be able to get something done.