Riding around Massachusetts in his pickup truck, Scott Brown hit a home run when he insisted: “This is not a Kennedy seat or a Democratic seat. It’s the people’s seat.” For a while, I thought Thomas Jefferson’s prophecy might be coming true:

“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. ... Whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, the people, if well informed, may be relied on to set them to rights.”

Were I still in Massachusetts, where I grew up, I would have voted – as an independent libertarian – for Brown. I would have agreed with at least 64 percent of Massachusetts’s large contingent of independent voters who were for him primarily because of the imminent passage of Obamacare. As pollster Tony Fabrizio (New York Post, Jan. 21) confirmed:

“Health care was the top issue in this race and voters were voting against the Obama health-care plan.”

The president had reminded many Americans, not only the elderly, that we are all mortal and could be subjected to government rationing not only for our health care, but for our very lives.

I was also attracted to Brown’s naturalness. He was not a teleprompter candidate. I even thought he might be a new Paul Revere who – as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote of the original silversmith – “in the hour of darkness and peril and need” caused “the people (to) waken.”