Posted on 09/14/2009 1:04:53 PM PDT by GQuagmire
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown is blasting Gov. Deval Patrick’s administration for calling the National Guard to check whether Brown’s enrollment takes him out of the heated race to replace the late Edward M. Kennedy.
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Not in uniform
Gotcha - so no active military can campaign in uniform?
Thank you. It was Graham who I was thinking about.
Steve Lynch is OUT!!! Coakley or Capuano are gonna get this seat. F*c*!
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1197666&format=comments#CommentsArea
Who is bankrolling Coakley? She is a total lightweight and can’t be scaring these guys off unless someone is spreading cash around for her.......
Or lightning strikes and Brown wins. Stranger things have happened.
Jack Murtha, the fat darling of Code Pink, was Marine Reserves for years while a Congressman.
Looks like the unions are getting behing Coakley. Why? Who knows...
Her and Capuano can now out-liberal each other. Great.
Scott Brown or bust.
just saw that on Herald site—would only hope a miracle occurs and disgruntled voters go for Scott Brown (yeah right but who knows)
It would be a miracle...
I see now the battle will be between the Stalinist wing of the Democrat party.
And the community organizing founder of City Year might throw his hat into the ring. In which case it becomes a battle between the Trotskiite wing the Stalinist wing and the Brownshirt wings of the Democrat Party.
Mark Sanford?
Ain’t diversity grand ?
The ‘Rat Party in Massachusetts consists basically of two factions. There are the elitist liberals who are focused on undermining national security and imposing their social views on the rest of society. The other faction is the working class faction focused on labor issues. Michael Capuano has appeal to both factions. He’s a working class Democrat who serves the liberal elite, a lawyer who supports politically correct speech, a family man who supports gay marriage and government benefits for unmarried couples, a Catholic who supports partial birth abortion and harvesting embryonic stem cells for medical research. For New England Democrats, he’s a one-man balanced ticket, with something for everyone.
We don’t get to choose our opponent, but among Coakley and Capuano I’d rather have Coakley run. Female Democrats have underperformed male Democrats recently (almost every race that Republicans won with the wind on their faces in 2006 were against liberal women, and combined with the fact that MA has never elected a woman to the U.S. Senate (or as governor for that matter) and that when Niki Tsongas was narrowly elected to Congress a couple of years ago she was the first woman elected to Congress from MA since Margaret Heckler in 1980 and only the second female Democrat ever elected to Congress from MA (the other being Louise Day Hicks in 1970). In addition, if Coakley wins the general, the GOP has, at least in theory, a chance of electing her replacement as AG, whereas Capuano’s MA-08 gives GOP presidential candidates less than 20% of the vote and would obviously elect a Democrat to replace him. Which brings me to my final reason for rooting for Coakley over Capuano—if Capuano is elected to the Senate, he could well be replaced by Joe Kennedy’s son, Joseph Kennedy III (which he could well use as a springboard for a future Senate run), whereas if Capuano stays in the House the Massachusetts Kennedys would be shut out for the first time since the end of WW II.
With Lynch out, Brown’s final number in November goes up. Not enough but makes it closer....
Even when the rats should win a race easily they still go out of their way to try and disqualify their conservative opponents. They do it all the time here in Cook County Illinois.
Couldn’t have put it better myself.
I’d say go for Coakley to keep Capuano in place so Joe Kennedy the 236th can’t run for that House seat. But I can’t stand looking at Coakley at all. She’ll have the arrogance of “Senator Madame” Boxer in spades if she makes it. I know folks who personally know Capuano and they say he’s a good person; it’s just that his politics suck. Coakley is just a non-likeable person.
Amazing how Steve Lynch was tossed aside like a used diaper. He’s never lost an election. Hell, he was the president of the local steelworkers union; what’s more Democratic than that? Many decades ago a Democrat named Ronald Reagan was the president of the Screen Actors Guild. He saw the light though, didn’t he?
Well, the Pats won last night with some miracle plays; Scott Brown could too.
The unions. Apparently they’ve abandoned Lynch for Coakley.
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