Posted on 11/05/2014 6:47:05 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Mike Barnicle could be the early leader in the race for the lamest excuse for a Dem loss. On today's Morning Joe, Barnicle claimed that the death of Boston Mayor Thomas Menino "disrupted" the Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign, and that but for it, Martha Coakley might have "pulled it out."
Really? Menino might not have been the most silver-tongued speaker, but the five-time Beantown mayor was a popular figure in the Bay State. It's not hard to imagine that far from hurting Coakley's campaign, Menino's passing might have prompted some sympathy votes for her, a fellow Dem.
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Barnicle is an idiot.
Bumbling Barnicle blames Menino death for Coakley loss. Ping to Today show list.
Boston Herald:
>>The Martha Coakley campaign denied it was responsible for attaching some of the Democratic candidate’s political signs to ones honoring the late Mayor Thomas M. Menino yesterday, after some voters called it poor timing.
“If it’s the case, she should do her own thing, not ride on Menino” said Therese Adams at the Orchard Gardens Community Center in Roxbury yesterday. “She needs to do her own thing if she’s going for governor. It’s best for her to start on her own.”
The Menino signs — widely distributed to mourners along the procession route to the late mayor’s funeral on Monday — were seen stapled to Coakley for governor signs.
But a spokesman for the Coakley campaign told the Herald the paired signage wasn’t organized by them.
“Nothing was coordinated with the campaign,” said Coakley spokesman Dave Wedge [Former Herald Reporter--rr]. Any Coakley/Menino signs “would be something somebody decided to do on their own,” he said.
But one volunteer for Republican Charlie Baker’s campaign derided it was an opportunistic move.
“It’s as though she’s riding his coattails,” Jim Doherty, a Baker campaigner in Southie, said yesterday. “It seems like her people couldn’t wait until he got into the ground before attaching the signs together. It’s just tasteless.”
anyone from boston knows barnacle is a clown, in all seriousness.
But Biden was in town the day before, on Monday. Did he not ask Menino to stand up and vote for Coakley?
Coakley. Don’t get me started.
I somehow missed the news of Mennino’s passing. He provided some of the most ridiculous sports gaffes in political history. Other than John Kerry, who loved seeing the Packers play at Lambert stadium, Mennino had the next most famous ones...could not keep the names of Boston sports legends straight at any time.
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