A thunderbolt out of the 'blue'

The heretofore little-known Brown has suddenly become a household name and a political supernova of the Republican Party who is outshining, for the moment, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the Grand Old Party's (GOP's) vice presidential nominee in the 2008 general election. Palin is now a sensation who has rekindled the passion of the dispirited conservatives with her best-selling book, Going Rogue. This former “pit bull with lipstick” and “hockey mom” has just joined Fox News as a commentator and is eyeing 2012 as her next goal to achieve.

It seems that Brown, who is drop-dead handsome and worked as a nude model during his college years, is turning the political color of the GOP from red to brown. Now, every GOP aspirant for public office in the mid-term election later this year is trying to cast himself or herself as another Brown or his alter ego — a Washington outsider, a social moderate and a fiscal conservative. Brown has become the most-sought-after Republican believed to possess a Midas touch.

Who would have imagined, just a couple of months ago, that Brown could have had the slightest chance of winning a seat held for four decades by Teddy Kennedy, the Democratic powerhouse and the “lion in the Senate?” Massachusetts, after all, has been deep blue country out of bounds to the GOP. Now, out of the blue, the stronghold of the Democrats is no longer that strong. If Brown can win in Massachusetts, there is no reason why other candidates cannot win in other less blue states. Brown has proved that in politics, nothing is impossible.

Yes, political fortunes shift. It has turned out that voter's loyalty cannot be trusted. It now seems that not only “woman is fickle” as Pavarotti used to sing, so is the voter whose fidelity can no longer be taken for granted. “A heart once won is not a heart forever won,” a New York Times columnist remarked aptly in a recent op-ed article.

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