Ace in the Hole - the Massachusetts Senate Election??

A Weekly Standard reader sent an email to Bill Kristol reminding him that there still might be one way to stop Obamacare - elect a Republican in the Massachusetts special Senate election. Although a liberal Democrat was appointed to replace Ted Kennedy (after the state changed their laws regarding open Senate seats), there is a special election scheduled in January, and should a Republican win that seat, Obamacare could still be stopped:

“Hey Mr. Kristol, is there some supersecret plot to ignore the Massachusetts Senatorial election scheduled for JANUARY 19, where an actual REPUBLICAN has a chance to become the 41ST member of the Republican caucus, which might find it in its interest to...persuade a certain Senatorial election committee to pay attention to the race or send money or have actual prominent Republican types come to the state to campaign for the very telegenic State Sen. Scott Brown, who's running against an undistinguished mouse of a Dem Party apparatchick who's so pro-abortion she's almost promising to do the procedure herself and doesn't carry the last name of Kennedy?
Just askin'!”

So, how do you beat a Democrat in Massachusetts? Make this election about one thing - Obamacare. The public polling numbers show that Obamacare is not popular with most voters (I haven't seen specific numbers for Massachusetts). The Republican needs to campaign on stopping this monstrosity and point out again and again that if his Dem opponent is elected, voters will lose their freedom (see previous post).

This election could be an important test of the issues the GOP will run on in November, and if they were able to knock off the favored Democrat, the results would be earthshaking.

And the White House may end up helping this whole process out. Hot Air is reporting that they plan to put off the whole health care debate until after the State of the Union address, concentrating on job creation instead. It's clear the House is not interested in passing the Senate version of the bill so there's still lots of work for Congress to do. Harry Reid's gambit to pass the bill before Christmas will not speed things up, and now voters will have more time to hear about all the problems in the legislation and perhaps, in the state of Massachusetts, do something about it.