Coakley (D) & Brown (R) win primary in Tuesday's election forTed Kennedy's US Senate seat.

massresistance.org ^ | 12/09/2009 | n/a

[massmike]

In Tuesday's primary election, Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley swept the 4-person Democratic primary with 47% and State Senator Scott Brown swept the Republican primary with 89%. It attracted very low turnout -- less than 20% state-wide. The general election is in six weeks, on January 19.

Herald Columnist Howie Carr gave probably the most interesting analysis of the campaign.

There could not be more of a difference between these two candidates. Martha Coakley has a long record of extreme, aggressive left-wing anti-family crusading, and general lap-dog water-carrying for the Democratic establishment. Scott Brown is a fiscal and (reasonably) social conservative who is willing to fight against the Obama health-care fiasco.

[massmike]

Howie Carr's analysis:

Hey, Pags, how ’bout them Celtics?

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1217582

[originalbuckeye]

Will Massachusetts wake up and give the Republican a chance to try to defeat totalitarianism in the Senate? Nah, it’s Massachusetts.

[EagleUSA]

Scott Brown is a fiscal and (reasonably) social conservative who is willing to fight against the Obama health-care fiasco.
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And from the People’s Democratic Republic of Massachusetts at that!!!

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Nah, it’s Massachusetts.

And that gets me royally p!$$3d off.

Scott brown is the kind of person we need in the US Senate. But that hag, Coakley (who is a truly detestable human being) will win in January because she has a lot more money to campaign with and will get the votes of the all hard line, old time Liberal a-holes who vote Dem no matter who the candidate is. This shite hole state is truly a sewer. I wish I could move to Texas.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

And from the People’s Democratic Republic of Massachusetts at that!!!

I don't know what the polling data show, but I don't think he has much of a chance. He's a 29 year Army NG member, a light colonel. If the election gets close, maybe Bammy will ship him off to Afghanistan, someplace where's he's likely to get killed.

Coakley is more or less a garden variety Democratic Party Hack/Apparchick. The local media will slover all over her for the next six weeks, although the local Fox affliate isn't in the old line Boston media mold. They also have the most widely viewed local newscast, so maybe there's hope.

Brown is not a particularly compelling public figure, somewhat nerdish, although his wife, a reporterette on the local ABC affliate, is a total babe. According to Wikipedia:

In 1982 as a 22-year-old law student at Boston College Brown posed for a semi-nude pictorial in Cosmopolitan (magazine), winning their "America’s Sexiest Man" contest.[8]

Which may offset Coakley's advantage among women. (Coakley will not appeal to male voters in that way.)

[paguch]

You are right. This state is mostly Catholic and they adored the anti-Catholic Kennedy family. The whole state seems to have left the Catholic Church behind, including the Catholic leadership. An anti-family candidate will fit right in with these people.

[Maneesh]

“I wish I could move to Texas.”

You have the correct solution, I too live in MA and am on track to move to Texas in Fall 2010. The majority of people in MA want folks like Kookley to be elected so I don't blame her as much. The system is working as designed and the only solution for conservatives is move to a saner state. New Hampshire is the sane state close by at least fiscally but Texas is the last bastion of freedom in America. MA is a lost cause and a serial murderer with a D after their name would beat Jesus Christ with a R after their name in this moonbat state. Do not get pissed off...dissociate yourself emotionally from state politics and get passionate about the country. Break free from whatever shackles are holding you back here and move to Texas, your life will be better in every sense of the word.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Break free from whatever shackles are holding you back here

Aye...therein lies the rub.
I got me some pretty damned big shackles. Monstrous in size and Adamantium in composition.
Time is the only solution to breaking them. And I can be very patient. It'll happen eventually.

[LostInBayport]

Will Massachusetts wake up and give the Republican a chance to try to defeat totalitarianism in the Senate? Nah, it’s Massachusetts.

Call me crazy if you wish, but I have a bit of hope that there could be an upset. Think of the value nationwide if a Republican won the Lion Liberal's seat...how would Obama feign a lack of concern then? How would Harry Reid keep his people in line? How would Chris Matthews get through reporting the story without extra-strength Depends?

In our favor: There is a lot of dislike for Martha Croakley even among democrats, our state has rising unemployment, rising foreclosures, a newly raised sales tax, a widening deficit and no cuts to the golden gravy train that give a nice ride to thousands of state employees and welfare recipients. And they are mulling over a 50 cent per gallon gas tax...

Add to that the date of the special election (the middle of January) and the conditions could be right for a big surprise...

37% of the electorate here voted for Bush in 2004. A sufficiently angered populace enduring the conditions I outlined above could provide another 14%.

[Maneesh]

I would urge you to reconsider.

I will take a $50,000 loss on my home and cut my losses and move. In the long run I will still be better off financially and be able to live in freedom. If it is family get them to move as well as I am doing. I am going to start the modern day “Underground Railway” to help people escape Massachusetts. I go to Texas every month and there is no comparison...it is the absolute place to live.

[Maneesh]

You clearly do not live in MA. 60% of the state will vote monolithically for the person with the D and nothing will change that short term. Facts are irrelevant, it is an emotional linkage, I live here I know trust me.

[LostInBayport]

I live here I know trust me.

I'm in Mass. too...maybe I'm reading the signals wrong or tend to surround myself with more conservative-leaning democrats. I see what you mean though...I know some democrats who live and advocate what are essentially conservative principles, yet always vote democrat. I ask them "WHY???" and they usually shrug and gurgle something about "I can't vote for a Republican". It does seem to be some sort of mental hangup.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

Well then Scott Brown needs to get the word out all over America and atract some Republican and Conservative funds

via email

Internet

Blogs

Others

and he better do it fast.

[massmike]

I live in Massachusetts,and you are 100% right.Typical example of the Massachusetts moonbat mind:I had this misfortune of having one of my moonbat-liberal relatives corner me a while back and he was going on and on about Bush and Romney...saying how neither one would have been anything if it wasn’t for their fathers.Then in the same breath he tells me how he had always voted for Teddy Kennedy!Now WHO owes more to their daddy for being where they are in life than ANY of the Kennedys?

[taxcontrol]

Any chance Gov Palin will make a friendly house call on the good Mr Brown? Not necessarily and endorsement at this time, but a book signing combined with post signing meet and greet dinner / fund raiser with Brown could go a long way to kick off the fight for that seat.

And if Gov Palin is going to be elected in 2012, she will want as many friendlies in the Senate as possible.

[originalbuckeye]

I will keep Massachusetts in my prayers. I lived in Boston late70s-early80s. It would be wonderful to see the State come to it’s senses.

[truthguy]

Will Massachusetts wake up and give the Republican a chance to try to defeat totalitarianism in the Senate? Nah, it’s Massachusetts.

You are so right about that. Massachusetts is a lunatic asylum when it comes to politics. It might be that there are so many colleges located in that state. You have naive college students, insane liberal professors and administrators and the like. There is also a blue collar (yes there are a few left) liberal constituency in Massachusetts.

The state is filled to the brim with educated idiots.

[Agamemnon]

That (D)-spell could have been broken if Curt Schilling chose to run.

When you bleed Red Sox red, you become a type of Christ. RedSox Nation is the State relgion in MA. As influential if not more than the Catholic Church.

Leading the Red Sox out of the 86-year World Series "Wilderness" in 2004 makes you a double-sized Moses. Remember, Israelites wandered "only" 40 years in the desert.

One hopes maybe Schilling will change his mind and run in 2010.

[Billg64]

Don’t get too excited, Scott Brown is not much of a conservative. He’s pro-choice, pro-gun registration, pro-green movement, voted for the pandemic bill in this state. He would probably fit right in with the rest of the New England Republicans.
Joe Kennedy is running also on the libertarian ticket; no relation to the other Kennedy’s.

[copwife]

Howie has said that he thinks this is Brown’s way to get name recognition as a forerunner to a run for state AG. I was kind of hoping he’d run for Gov.