Posted on 01/14/2010 10:11:18 AM PST by truthandlife
If she hasn’t done it yet, Martha Coakley may have just killed her campaign.
She’s apparently been trying to win the title of Worst Political Campaign Ever, and she might have just clinched it with her little dig at Scott Brown over Fenway Park. [2]
The appearance characterizes Coakley’s approach to this truncated race. Aware that she has little time for the hand-shaking and baby-kissing of a standard political campaign, she has focused instead on rallying key political leaders, Democratic activists, and union organizers, in hope they will get people to the polls.
… Despite that, 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.’’
There are just so many things wrong with that statement.
It 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.
Finally, has she forgotten who she’s talking to? What state she’s wanting to represent in the Senate? It’s Massachusetts. You do not make sneering insults about Fenway Park. What’s she going to do next, insult the Red Sox? That’d really just be the cherry on top of a delightful campaign. Fenway Park and the Red Sox are damned near sacred to Massachusetts residents, Bostonians in particular. Really, I’m starting to think that she just doesn’t want to get elected or something. Because anyone with half a modicum of sense knows that you do not go into Boston and mess with Fenway Park.
The event Coakley is talking about "standing out in the cold" was the outdoor NHL game held at Fenway in the past month or so.
So, she dissed the Red Sox location AND Boston Bruins fans.
If she finds it distasteful to meet with and talk to her constituents while she is campaigning imagine what she will be like after she is elected.
thanks for posting.
Coakley did everything she could to keep an innocent man in prison just to advance her political career. This is the worst abuse of power imaginable and reason enough to vote against her for any position.
this needs to go viral up there in the People’s Republic.
“If she finds it distasteful to meet with and talk to her constituents while she is campaigning imagine what she will be like after she is elected.”
EXCELLENT point - deserves repeating!!!!
I used to think no woman was more vile than Pelosi.....I may have been mistaken.
“If she finds it distasteful to meet with and talk to her constituents while she is campaigning imagine what she will be like after she is elected.”
To some extent everyone in Washington has this disease. They think they are rulers, not elected officials. It seems the Rats are more afflicted with the disease.
Answering to their constituents is beneath them.
“imagine what she will be like after she is elected.”
I thought they were coronated in Massachusetts?
Don’t miss this one....Good for a few votes I’d think!
These latest liberal females make Hillary seem like a breath of fresh air.
The same as she is now as Attorney General: arrogant and aloof.
That assumes that she will win-me thinks Ms Croakley will be introduced to a new position favored by Barney Frank this Tuesday by Massachusettes voters
Hillary? Maxine Waters? How about Cindy Sheehan?
Martha is a piker compared to these broads
This is Curt Schilling??? I thought he was a Dem?
I prefer....
"...imagine what she will she'd be like after if she is elected..."
No No he is a Rep.
Yes. Also, more generically, she comes off as a wimp by saying it’s icky-poo to stand in the cold for a span of time.
Do you really think your average Massachusetts resident is that much of a puss, male or female?
This isn’t a “woman thing.” Voters overwhelmingly have no problem with a woman in the Senate, but they don’t want a wimp. (She should at least ACT LIKE she is tough.)
I see Hillary as their leader. I will never forget how vile she was and is.
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