Given the serial fiascoes of the Martha Coakley for Senate campaign – veering from gaffe (her claim that there are no terrorists in Afghanistan) to comedy (misspelling her own state’s name in an attack ad) to ham-handedness (a staffer barrelling over a Weekly Standard reporter trying to ask about the Afghanistan gaffe) to outright panic in her communications with national Democrats, who are now tapping into their House campaign fund to prop her up – you would think, five days before Election Day, that the second coming of Shannon O’Brien has run out of ways to hand Scott Brown an upset victory in the race for what was for decades Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat (but, as Brown has reminded us, remains the people’s seat to do with as they wish).
But no! Coakley has managed, at this late hour, to diss New England’s most hallowed site – Fenway Park itself. And, for bonus points, to do so in the course of explaining why she’s above standing outside in cold weather (as if this is an unusual hardship for New Englanders) to ask for votes, when she could be getting to know connected people who know other connected people. As the Boston Globe reports:
There is a subdued, almost dispassionate quality to her public appearances, which are surprisingly few. Her voice is not hoarse from late-night rallies. Even yesterday, the day after a hard-hitting debate, she had no public campaign appearances in the state.
Coakley bristles at the suggestion that, with so little time left, in an election with such high stakes, she is being too passive.
“As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?” she fires back, in an apparent reference to a Brown online video of him doing just that. “This is a special election. And I know that I have the support of Kim Driscoll. And I now know the members of the [Salem] School Committee, who know far more people than I could ever meet.”
Brown supporter and Red Sox icon Curt Schilling is apoplectic, and I’ll let him do the honors:
[This statement] shows her elitism and arrogance unbelievably. Aside from the apparent feeling that the seat belongs to her just by virtue of her party, she just admitted that she doesn’t need to bother meeting with constituents because she’s meeting people like Kim Driscoll, and political leaders, and Democrat activists. I guess they’re the ones that matter, huh? I know it’s a “special election” and all, but that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t need to fight for this seat. Prancing around with this mindset of “Oh, I’m a Democrat, therefore Ted Kennedy’s seat just automatically belongs to me regardless of what the people think,” is idiotic. Acting as if she doesn’t need to give her constituents the time of day is ludicrous. She can make all the snide remarks about Scott Brown shaking hands with people in the cold that she wants, but that’s what you’re supposed to do when you’re trying to get elected. She seems to have forgotten that she’s trying to get elected in Massachusetts, and not in Washington D.C. – if she remembered that, maybe she’d spend more time trying to impress Massachusetts voters and less time rubbing elbows with the Democrat establishment, Big Pharmacy lobbyists, and union leaders. Most normal politicians, Republican or Democrat, do go shake hands with voters. Even if it means standing in the cold outside of Fenway Park.
Maybe Coakley should come back when she has a little blood on her sock.
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Democratic terrorism
wolfster38 (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 12:19PM EST (link)Caller on Rush – Democratic terrorism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OypUDBBZmko
“A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
The Declaration of Independence
For any Red Sox fan
Sundayjack (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 12:24PM EST (link)which means just about every out there, that line stuck out of that fluff piece like it was on fire.
Follow that up with a CONSTANT barrage of negative ads on radio and television. That’s why the latest Brown commercial is so well done. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yu_af4KbdE
For a candidate that is hardly loved, I can’t imagine this constant flood of negative ads is going to do what she needs. Maybe I’m wrong. I don’t think so.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
Croakley is missing the point
voxoreason Friday, January 15th at 10:31AM EST (link)Yes, the video you linked to is great. The man presents himself in an appealing way. (If anyone hasn’t seen this video, take a mome… and see if you saw what I did.)
Croakley is basing her “campaigning” (or lack thereof) on what I feel is a poor grasp of the dynamics, ie, motivating voters in bad times. She simply reeks of entitlement: why should *I* have to be inconvenienced to campaign? It’s cold…and besides, I KNOW people. (Friends in low places?)
After a horrible ’09, during which Obama didn’t miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity (unless it was to do one of many 180′s on almost everything he ran on in ’08), are dems really excited about getting out in the cold to vote anymore than Croakley is to campaign? Wouldn’t it be accurate to say that she is unwilling to meet the voters halfway?
On the other hand, Scott Brown is hitting all the bases and seems like a guy you’d meet on the street and perhaps have a friendly chat with, as he basically does in the video (“…and your dog, too!”).
Plus, since he IS the 41st vote, anyone who loathes the ObamaCare conspiracy is HIGHLY motivated to brave any kind of weather to elect 41. The dems live by the polls…and their chances with the favorability polls re ObamaCare don’t look good. Obama’s naked arrogance and leftist agenda betray him as the political amateur that he is. (Talk is cheap…inaction is cheaper. BAD actions puts you in the red zone.)
I expected the repub candidate for “Kennedy’s seat” (NOT) to be some nobody who might enjoy a little face time on TV, then crawl back into his hole.
I have been very pleasantly surprised that MA voters have such an attractive repub candidate… and such an in yo’ face haughty, “I can’t be bothered” alternative from which to choose.
Call her Mars-a Coakley
Castor (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 12:26PM EST (link)I wonder what planet she´s from.
First, she states that there are no terrorists in Afhanistan.
Next she can´t spell the name of her state.
Maybe she´s from Mars!
Those Comments Ticked Me Off
proudgop (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 12:30PM EST (link)Her comments ticked me so off. Its such arrogance and yet she will proclaim to be in DC fighting for working class Massachusetts voters? She thinks of them as non entities
Curt Shilling just posted on her comments
http://ow.ly/WsEE
Brown really needs to have these comments plastered all over the airwaves. Attacking Fenway Park is like attacking God in Massachusetts
You're not quite right...
wayneinnh (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:53PM EST (link)Attacking God in Massachusetts gets you at least 5 more percentage points in the election. Attacking Fenway will cost you…
Jon 14:6 –
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”
It’s not intellectual to believe we evolved from hydrogen gas.
HAHAHA
redohio (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 12:37PM EST (link)You definitely got it right with the Sox hat and Dunkin Donuts……but this is New England, man……BOSTON specifically…..ain’t nobody smiling
I lived in Mass. for seven years
Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:22PM EST (link)(college & law school) and wrote for Sox-fan websites for three more, so I know the turf,
This is bad, bad, bad. And meanwhile, Scott Brown was on WEEI this morning. EPIC WIN.
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
It wasn't JUST Scott Brown on WEEI
Sundayjack (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 2:25PM EST (link)Following Scott Brown was an interview with Gerald “Tookie” Amirault – the guy who Martha fought to keep in prison for an additional two years after the Governor’s Council and just about everyone else on the planet was certain of his innocence in the famous Fells Acres case. That was compelling radio. A couple Coakley callers screamed about the unfair timing. Oh well. . .
They also made clear repeatedly that they have extended numerous invitations to Martha to appear, but she has yet to respond. It defies all logic. She’d prefer to PAY for negative ad time, rather than accept a free 30 minutes on the highest rated radio show in the Boston market.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
Coakley is a gift to the Republican Party
neyney Thursday, January 14th at 12:41PM EST (link)She’s just tied a great big red bow on top of the gift she’s giving our side. This is one of the most ineffectual campaigns I’ve seen since McCain’s. Honestly can she possibly come off as more of an elitist snob? And insulting Fenway Park? I met my first “southy” this summer. I’m in Texas and he and his family are “refugees” as he calls it lol. The way he spoke of Fenway Park was almost religious in its tone. I’d never heard of “the big green monster” before speaking to this gentleman (for those uneducated like myself it’s their old school scoring board at the ballpark). For someone who claims to want to represent MA Coakley has just made a major misstep. You don’t insult the redsox and you don’t insult Fenway and she’s just done both in one fell swoop while coming off as some kind of snob. Way to go Martha, the gift just keeps giving and unlike the rest of the ineffectual Republican party Scott Brown will be all over this like white on rice. Go Scott Go!
Most Sox fans would never, ever vote for a Republican...
DamnCat Thursday, January 14th at 12:57PM EST (link)…but they wouldn’t have a problem NOT voting for far a stuck-up, Sox fan hater.
Way to supress your turn out there, Martha.
Somebody with photoshopping skills...
mschmitt (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:11PM EST (link)… needs to put Martha Coakley in a NY Yankees jacket.
Now.
usque ad finem
Something like this mschmitt?
Aaron Gardner (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:29PM EST (link)conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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Yup, that'll about do it! nt
mschmitt (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:33PM EST (link)usque ad finem
Uh, we don't play those games, do we.
gekster (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:34PM EST (link)LOL
They say Republicans are for the rich, Democrats are for the poor.
If they need more voters,
then they have to make more of who they are for.
We are there in the various Tea Party groups, leaderless, but not rudderless.
We steer always toward the Constitutional principles this nation was founded upon.
Erick Brockway
Ok folks, 2012 is here. Get involved
A victory
Return to Revolution (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:02PM EST (link)for Brown is not necessary to shock democrats and possibly even kill Obamacare, only a close race is needed – so I keep hearing.
Perhaps, but a Brown win would just be that awesome, and I could look forward to seeing facial expressions not seen since the one on Peter Jennings on a Tuesday night in November, 1994.
Out of hand Constitutional fetishist
I remember that night and the days following...
wayneinnh (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:50PM EST (link)“Some thoughts on those angry voters. Ask parents of any two-year-old and they can tell you about those temper tantrums: the stomping feet, the rolling eyes, the screaming. It’s clear that the anger controls the child and not the other way around. It’s the job of the parent to teach the child to control the anger and channel it in a positive way. Imagine a nation full of uncontrolled two-year-old rage. The voters had a temper tantrum last week….Parenting and governing don’t have to be dirty words: the nation can’t be run by an angry two-year-old.”
– ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings in his daily ABC Radio commentary, November 14.
Jon 14:6 –
Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.”
It’s not intellectual to believe we evolved from hydrogen gas.
Coakley seems like a frog in below zero weather(not much croak)to me. Vote BROWN. NT
bobojake (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:04PM EST (link)Rothenberg
proudgop (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:10PM EST (link)Rothenberg just moved Senate Race to Tossup
4 days is an eternity in politics ;) nt
erod (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:15PM EST (link)4 days is an eternity in politics ;) nt
erod (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:15PM EST (link)Boston Weather forecast for Tuesday
erod (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:21PM EST (link)lower 30s and cold, BUT…..
coastal storm will hit the MA area on Sunday and Monday creating a mixture of Ice and snow.
http://www1.whdh.com/weather/
u want coastal storm
proudgop (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:33PM EST (link)that means more pro democrat areas ( Boston/Cape Cod will be hit)
Western Mass ( more Republican won’t)
usually western mass gets hit harder when it snows unless its coastal storm
She's a gift...
erod (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:13PM EST (link)An elitist who is way above the people of Boston and MA and that doesn’t work well in an election. Even guys like Kerry and Kennedy made an effort to appear to care about things that were important to MA like the Red Sox. Heck even Hillary put on the Yankees cap when she was in New York, even though she was a Cubs’ fan who grew up in Park Ridge, IL. But as for respect for sports teams and hallowed traditions with Coakley, nahhhhh forget about it!
What a fool! She isn’t up by 20 points and she isn’t running away with this race.
Does this idiot even live by the Boston area? You don’t insult Fenway Park and the Red Sox if you live there. That’s like insulting G-d, chowder and clam bakes In a New England church. Maybe she should go down to Fenway, wear a Sox hat and shake hands with the “unwashed masses” as Harry Reid calls them. I sense that Brown has a good shot, will he win? I have no idea but he has a “good shot” which is more than I could say a week ago.
Does MA really want a Mike Nifong-esque person to be their Senator?
Mary Beth (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:13PM EST (link)Holy buckets…Martha Coakley is a NIGHTMARE.
Don’t believe me? Just ask Gerald Amirault about the woman who kept him in jail for 18 years when she KNEW the evidence against him was fabricated.
Do we want to see someone like Mike Nifong become a Senator?
Listen to Amirault’s story here:
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MGQ4NzhmMmE1ZDJjYmYyYTNiM2E5MWI4NDRiNDUxOGQ=
The exact WRONG person for the job of representing the people.
“A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.” ~ Ronald Reagan
Not A Red Sox Fan?
smitch61 Thursday, January 14th at 1:24PM EST (link)As an individual who has quite a bit of family in MA, I can tell you your wording of Fenway being New England’s most hallowed site is absolutely correct.. You hit the nail on the head with that one. It’s difficult to get a ticket into Fenway ANYTIME.. weather the Sox are in 1st place or not…. That state loves their Sox……. silly silly woman.
Research 2000 has her at 49 and Scott at 41
earlgrey (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:24PM EST (link)This race is driving me crazy!
Research 2000 polls
proudgop (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 1:35PM EST (link)skew heaving towards the Dems
add 6 to Brown
PPP is doing another poll; comes out Sunday night
R2000 are Dailykos poller of choice
jackhammer Thursday, January 14th at 2:19PM EST (link)They have Obama’s favourables at 56 today…..you really believe they are credible?
they skew so heavily that you see a lot of their polls swing stronger than others the closer they get to elections…their early polls are more propoganda than polls.
Wait for the spin
dirkbelig Thursday, January 14th at 1:27PM EST (link)If Brown pulls out a victory, the Treason Media will pooh-pooh the results as….
1. Not a rejection of Obamaism, because everybody still loves Barry.
B. Not a rejection of Big Government statism because their polls show that everyone wants Uncle Sam to provide alms and punish the rich.
3. Stupid Martha ran a bad campaign, but was more a victim of the VRWC making a big deal about little things.
4. Meaningless because they’ll import a real Kennedy to run for the dynastic seat in November and toss this usurper out.
5. Meaningless because the Dems will refuse to seat him until after ObamaCare is imposed. Teddy was for it and thus his death shouldn’t be a reason to allow some obstructionist to leap in and thwart his dying wish.
“This would be a great job if it weren’t for the ****ing customers.” – Randal Graves, “Clerks”
The seat is next open in 2012
JoeG Thursday, January 14th at 2:22PM EST (link)Ted was re-elected in ’06, so the seat comes back up in 2012.
Thanks
dirkbelig Thursday, January 14th at 4:04PM EST (link)I’d heard someone saying that this was merely a “wait until November” deal, but they could’ve been wrong or I misheard. Thanks for the clarification.
“This would be a great job if it weren’t for the ****ing customers.” – Randal Graves, “Clerks”
Wait Until November
arizonasaguaro Friday, January 15th at 1:39PM EST (link)I believe the “wait until November” remark was referring to the November elections when the House seats and the governorship will be up for grabs amnong others. Now we take back the “seat of the peoples” with Scott Brown and in November we remove Barney Frank and Gov. Patrick
From your lips to God's ears
JoeG Sunday, January 17th at 1:58AM EST (link)Barney gone? Oh how I’d savor that one!
Wasn't that comment suppose to be Gillette Stadium?
walter_hanson Thursday, January 14th at 2:19PM EST (link)Excuse me, but has anybody realized yet that Brown was shaking hands at Gillette Stadium before the Patriots playoff game.
She didn’t even know what team was playing let alone what stadium they were playing out.
This really shows she doesn’t know the state.
Walter Hanson
Minneapolis, MN
There were two different clips
Sundayjack (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 2:29PM EST (link)There is one that does show him shaking hands outside the Patriots’ playoff game. There’s a different one from the week prior, when he was outside Fenway Park, shaking hands before the NHL Winter Classic. That’s the crazy ironic part of this. Red Sox fans will be upset, but it was actually a Boston Bruins game that Scott Brown was working.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
True but...
DamnCat Thursday, January 14th at 3:02PM EST (link)…when she sneeringly refers to fans at Fenway, both Bruins AND Sox fans will reply with a middle finger salute.
Joakley Just Spit Into The Wind!
Ausonius (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 2:23PM EST (link)She pulled on Superman’s cape.
She pulled the mask off the old Lone Ranger.
And she messed around with Fenway Park.
At times the elitist East Coast Dem just cannot stand having to shake hands with the canaille rabble populating the land: Joakley reminds me of Banker Drysdale’s wife on “The Beverly Hillbillies.”
Snob extraordinaire!
Brown needs to play that tape as the screen fades to “Scott Brown for YOUR Senate Seat!”
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Personal Tutor to the future St. Paulinus of Nola and to young Gratian, heir to the throne during the turbulent final years of the Western Roman Empire. When his former student Gratian was assassinated, Ausonius threw up his hands and retired to his farm in Gaul. Rome was captured by barbarians 14 years after his death.
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Fenway
rick554 Thursday, January 14th at 3:11PM EST (link)By chance last year, I was lucky enough to visit Fenway Park. The people of Boston revere the place . Martha , that was the straw…….
GO Scot!!
Rick554
Seriously.
liberty_speaks Thursday, January 14th at 5:36PM EST (link)For all the lib-nuts in Mass, there is one thing they love. Their sports. Whether it be the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, or Bruins. On any game day for any sport you would think that it is state law for residents to wear sports gear supporting their team. To openly deride one of the greatest ball fields of all times, the home of America’s oldest past time, just tells you everything that you need to know about these elitist hacks. To them, the People don’t matter.
Even one of Coakley’s organizers planned a fundraising event the afternoon the Patriots were playing the Ravens. When told it was a bad idea she said “who are the Patriots?” Speaks volumes about these people.
Yellow Dog
bigalsouth (Diary) Thursday, January 14th at 5:59PM EST (link)Southern Slang: Yellow Dog
The term denotes a voter who will vote for anything with the “D” after their name, especially when running against a Republican. Ex: “I’d vote fer a yeller dog ifin it was runnin’ gainst some re-pub-li-kan.”
Martha Coakley is comedy gold from “no Taliban in Afghanistan” to “shake hand’s at Fenway? It’s cold as balls over there.”
Go ahead Massachusettes. Make My Day. Vote for this female version of B. Hussein Obama. (Well, with a higher approval rating,m anyway.)
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Tipping point
livefreenh Friday, January 15th at 7:40AM EST (link)Living in NH here, we watch Boston TV. There was a well-defined moment when Coakley’s ads went negative. In my business I work in the boardroom, and I am trained to smell fear in an opponent.
Coakley is afraid, and so are her handlers.
This is a telling moment.
Feet Wet
ihateliberals Friday, January 15th at 10:21AM EST (link)Maybe she needs to get her feet wet in order to understand MA. She needs to visit Chappaquiddick.
Or The Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary
jayburd (Diary) Saturday, January 16th at 6:51AM EST (link)nt
One of my heroes- Ralph Smeed’s blog- http://smeedonstate-ism.com/index.htm
“What’s the matter? Don’t you want to win the war?” – Capt. John Birch
“If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill.
The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The
difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the
money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%.Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People.” – Thomas A. Edison
ACORN's ugly head
livefreenh Saturday, January 16th at 6:34AM EST (link)“An article published recently highlighted the fact that one of Democrat Martha Coakley’s biggest advocates, ACORN, gave her an A+ grade, which they gave to just 6 other state Attorneys General. “I am honored to have received this recognition from ACORN,” Coakley said in a statement after receiving the ‘honor.”’ http://bit.ly/4FbklD
MOA (Margin Of ACORN) Election day, as opposed to MOE...
JLenardDetroit (Diary) Saturday, January 16th at 6:52AM EST (link)(Margin Of Error) in Polls leading up to it…. Wish that MOA was mine, but that was from a Comedian on RedEye (don’t remember who). which had pointed to with bet ACORN is checking the Obits, and more and other expected hi-jinks
additionally……..
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Thank you
livefreenh Tuesday, January 19th at 6:36AM EST (link)One of the liberal’s mantras: “The public has a short memory.”
They also like to joke that older people forget things.
Fortunately we still remember how to make lists of abuses and broken promises. And we remember how to vote. Watch live coverage today in Mass.