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Scott Brown defeated Attorney General Martha Chokely, whose campaign strategy seemed to follow Woody Allen’s advice that “80 percent of success is showing up.”

Indeed, Ms. Chokely seemed to think that just by being a Democrat running for the seat long-held by the “Liberal Lion,” that she was automatically entitled to it.

She scorned the idea of spending time outside of Fenway Park on a cold day, shaking hands. You know what, Martha? That’s what politicians running for office do!

Ted Kennedy would go out and campaign…even when running unopposed! Although, after seeing her lackluster campaign, I get the feeling that if she had run unopposed, she STILL would’ve lost.

When it came out that former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling was endorsing Brown, Chokely joked that he (Schilling) was probably a Yankees fan. Good to see that Martha is keeping John Kerry’s joke writers employed. Maybe she can take over the Tonight Show when Jay gets fired again. Why do Democrats think they’re funny? They’ve got a professional comedy writer, Al Franken in their midst. Couldn’t he run a remedial comedy class for them?

In fairness, Brown ran a great campaign.

“I’m Scott Brown and I drive a truck,” was pretty much all it took to defeat Martha (He didn’t tell us what kind of mileage he got on it, though). I’m not sure if there’s a precedent for that campaign slogan.

“I’m Abe Lincoln, and I split rails.”

The press noted with a wink and a chuckle that Brown had posed nude for Cosmopolitan Magazine in 1982. I’m not sure if there’s a precedent for that, either.

“The Saturday Evening Post Presents William Howard Taft, America’s Sexiest Man!”

At 340 pounds, there was just more of him to love. Remember, they liked ‘em big back then.

Had the shoe been on the other foot, wait…that’s probably a bad metaphor, had there been nude photos of Martha (sorry for planting that image in your head) that surfaced instead of Brown, I suspect that the “Family Values” crowd would have deemed her unfit to run for such a lofty office. Of course, had the Fairness Doctrine still been in place, Martha would have been within her rights to demand to pose nude also. Perhaps we may yet see that “The Ladies of the Attorney General’s Office” layout in Playboy.

Martha Chokely was the 1978 Boston Red Sox blowing a 14 1/2 game lead to the New York Yankees. Martha Chokely was Bill Buckner booting a squibbed ground ball to first base. Martha Chokely was Mike Torrez giving up a bloop home run to Bucky Dent (Yes, despite World Series Championships in 2004 and 2007, the pre-2004 Red Sox remain the Gold Standard for blowing a sure thing). Okay…to throw in one non-Red Sox reference, Martha Chokely was Scott Norwood missing an easy field goal that would’ve won the Super Bowl. And you Sox fans think we’re the only ones whose team tortures us?

The election now gives the Democrats what seems to be a 59-41 minority. Only the donkeys can screw up like that and turn an advantage into seeming to be a disadvantage. It’s kind of like former Red Sox pitcher Matt Young throwing a no-hitter and losing. Yes, if need a sports metaphor for screwing up, all you have to do is check Red Sox history between 1919-2003.

Now there’s a lot of excitement on the right about Scott Brown, as there was on the left about Barak Obama, and like Obama, the honeymoon period will eventually end and there will be a realization that the candidate can’t walk on water, and disappointment likely will set in. Sort of like being a Red Sox fan from 1919-2003.

As for Martha Chokely, she’s announced that she’s again running for reelection as Attorney General. Before she begins campaigning (assuming she does), she should buy a truck.

Now it is Scott Brown who will be moving to Washington, and he might need some help, but he can take a lot of stuff himself; after all, he has a truck.

Congratulation to Scott Brown, or as one man once said: “Heckuva job, Brownie.”