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Carl, what did you dream of first?

Well, I'm in Massachusetts, and I'm naked, and I'm driving a pickup truck and Ted Kennedy steps into the street,

and I swerved to get around, and I run over at the Attorney General Martha Cokley.

So who was Carl in that dream?

I'm guessing Scott Brown?

Yes, Scott Brown, of course, is the new star of the Republican Party, Massachusetts State Senator Scott Brown,

won the Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for 40 years in JFK before him.

Brown is a handsome Republican, he's a former center-fold model.

He was losing by 10 points just a month ago, and then had this historic victory.

This will cause a sea change in American politics, as both parties start leafing through Playboy and Playgirl.

They'll say, oh no, we're just reading it for the candidates.

Now, his upset victory was credited in part to his opponent, Martha Cokley,

Experts Agree, she was the least charismatic Democratic Senate candidate since Mel Carnahan in 2000,

and he was dead, and he won anywhere.

Now, despite this victory, Republicans have a problem, they still don't have a national leader,

and that is a problem because now the Democrats don't know exactly to whom they should surrender.

Well, you know, there's that fond dream now that someday, far in the future,

maybe the Democrats will have majorities in both the House Senate and be in the White House.

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