NRO: It’s the Enemy, Stupid

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE, 1/20/2010 by Andrew C. McCarthy - National-security strength lifts Scott Brown. ∴ It was health care that nationalized the special election for what we now know is the people’s Senate seat. But it was national security that put real distance between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley. “People talk about the potency of the health-care issue,” Brown’s top strategist, Eric Fehrnstrom, told National Review’s Robert Costa, “but from our own internal polling, the more potent issue here in Massachusetts was terrorism and the treatment of enemy combatants.” There is a powerful lesson here for Republicans, and here’s hoping they learn it. [Emphasis added] Read more at NRO...