Scott Brown is a more liberal Republican than Dede Scozzafava (so says Chicago Liberal professor)

Boris Shor's Web log ^ | 01/15/2010 | Boris Shor, Ph.D

[mnehring]

Again, look up the NAPT common scores chart. What he did was take this existing chart, and then use his cute little green arrows to point to where his analysis falls in the range.

In other words, that chart that lists all the States isn’t from his analysis, his analysis is the overlaid information on top of that chart.

[Lakeshark]

Thanks for the post.

That leaves it fairly clear, as opposed to the nonsense of this blogger. Not bad for Massachusetts if I might say.

[SoCalPol]

Lt. Col Scott Brown

[Lancey Howard]

I don’t really understand your issue with the chart, but it doesn’t matter anyway. I get the sense that the silly chart was thrown in as the kind of decoration that is expected in a piece like this one. He could have done better - - like by leaving it out in favor of a couple of photos or something. But I don’t see any serious duplicity to jump up and down about. “Boris” makes his case clearly enough in his text.

That said, I believe there are plenty of variables he did not properly consider, including the fact that the two legislative chambers in New York have been largely competetive between the parties and between each other for many years, whereas Massachusetts has been so overwhelmingly Democrat for so long that Republican votes are totally irrelevant. These very different situations are bound to produce very different attitudes and approaches to voting on various issues (which themselves are represented by very differently in bills). Any charts that purport to be “scientifically graphed” are suspect from the outset.

[TChad]

What this shows, however, is that the conservative base in the United States, far from dragging their party moblike into an unelectable extreme, has made the decentralized decision to support the realistically best candidate they can relative to the context in which he’s being elected. The 23rd special district election can also be seen in this light; throwing Scozzafava overboard made far more sense in the context of that electorate.

This seems obvious, but I guess it is not obvious to the left.

[backhoe]

Whatever... Coakley ought to be in prison for prosecutorial abuse:

Martha Coakley's Convictions [role played in a notorious sex case raises questions]

The story of the Amiraults ... If the sound of ghostly laughter is heard in Massachusetts these days as this campaign rolls on, with Martha Coakley self-portrayed as the guardian of justice and civil liberties, there is good reason.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...

DAN RIEHL: The Details: Coakley, Amirault, Woodward And Souza.

After reading a post by Michelle Malkin that mentions the issue ofan over-zealous prosecution by Martha Coakleyin the Amirault case, and also following up on a link by Instapundit to a Radley Balko item, I first went digging around to see if Coakleyhad ever commented on the Amiraultcase. Coakley declined to be interviewed for Dorothy Rabinowitz's recentdamning article in the WSJdealing with Amirault.

That's when I stumbled upon an extensivecached Boston Globe article from 1999. If you read the entire Globeitemand the links above, a portrait emerges ofMartha Coakleyas an overly-zealousprosecutor...

UPDATE: “Martha Coakley isn’t just a lousy US Senate candidate. She’s a crummy AG, too.”

Martha Coakley-Public Menace

Dorothy Rabinowitz breaks down the appalling case of the Amiraults in Massachusetts, victims of Martha Coakley:

"The story of the Amiraults of Massachusetts, and of the prosecution that had turned the lives of this thriving American family to dust, was well known to the world by the year 2001. It was well known, especially, to District Attorney Martha Coakley, who had by then arrived to take a final, conspicuous, role in a case so notorious as to assure that the Amiraults' name would be known around the globe." Gerald Amirault spent eighteen years of his life in prison for crimes he manifestly did not commit. "The accusations against the Amiraults might well rank as the most astounding ever to be credited in an American courtroom, but for the fact that roughly the same charges were brought by eager prosecutors chasing a similar headline—making cases all across the country in the 1980s. Those which the Amiraults' prosecutors brought had nevertheless, unforgettable features: so much testimony, so madly preposterous, and so solemnly put forth by the state. The testimony had been extracted from children, cajoled and led by tireless interrogators."

(Excerpt) Read more at joytiz.com ...

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At this stage of America's decline, I'd take an honest Liberal over her. She is a disgrace.

[Varmint Al]

Massachusetts Miracle Video.

Good message about the election.

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al