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Democrats Hit the Panic Button in Massachusetts
Weekly Standard Blog ^ | 1:21 PM, Jan 12, 2010 | Matthew Continetti

Posted on 01/12/2010 1:15:21 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Is your campaign in trouble? Attack Rush Limbaugh!

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Democrats must really be worried about the Massachusetts special election. The DNC dispatched partisan fire-breather Hari Sevugan to help with Martha Coakley's communications strategy. Coakley's in trouble because the Democratic health care bill is unpopular in Massachusetts, Democratic incumbent governor Deval Patrick is a flop, and the unemployment rate is at 8.8 percent.

The rule in politics is to change the subject when your campaign is in trouble. Sure enough, Sevugan wasted no time spilling ink in a desperate attempt to link Republican Scott Brown to Sarah Palin. In last night's debate, Coakley acted as though Brown were just a stand in for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. And a harsh new Coakley ad tried to connect Brown to Rush Limbaugh--before everyone noticed the campaign had misspelled Massachusetts in the text.

Sevugan's latest hyperpartisan missive says Brown has "made a deal with the devil" by embracing Tea Party principles of low government spending and taxation. The folks concerned about deficits, debt, regulations, spending, and taxes are "extremists" and "radicals," Sevugan says. He tries to tie Brown to Karl Rove, the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, and--this is not a joke--the Willie Horton campaign ad from twenty years ago. It's a haunted house of Republican goblins.

Once upon a time, Democratic scare tactics were tied to policy--Don't vote for candidate x, he'll cut Social Security and Medicare! But those were the good old days, I suppose. In the Massachusetts special election, the Coakley campaign wants to frighten Democrats into voting through a simple Pavlovian response. Every time we mention Palin, the campaign strategists must think, we'll frighten another liberal into pulling the lever for Coakley.

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TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: brown; coakley; kennedy; kennedyseat; massachusetts; moneybomb; scottbrown; senate
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1 posted on 01/12/2010 1:15:22 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

The Democrat panic button doesn’t actually say “Panic”. It says “ACORN”.


2 posted on 01/12/2010 1:17:15 PM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: All
Related threads:

Desperation time: DSCC suddenly buys $570K in MA ad time ( Republican Brown raises over $1m )

And:

Amazing: Scott Brown about to raise $1 million for the day; Update: Done!

3 posted on 01/12/2010 1:17:51 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

This could actually be almost funny if it weren’t for the reality of how serious it really is. Rush certainly is right when he says libs are more entertaining and more fodder for his show when they are in power. Right now, as they are reaching for everybody’s wallet, the entertainment value is rapidly falling off.


4 posted on 01/12/2010 1:19:15 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: T-Bird45

Libs are more entertaining when they’re OUT of power, like nasty impotent chihuahuas.

When they’re IN power, they’re dangerous. And the more power they get, the more dangerous they are, and I’m not just talking about your wallet, but your LIFE.


5 posted on 01/12/2010 1:20:47 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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To: Republic of Texas
LOL!

And at Hot Air...Video:

Coakley says no more terrorists in Afghanistan

6 posted on 01/12/2010 1:20:54 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

It’s a haunted house of Republican goblins.

Only problem is the dimocrats forgot to hand out
the 3D glasses.


7 posted on 01/12/2010 1:24:25 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Brown should do an add that says..."the democrats have tried to link me to Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, George Bush and the Devil. I've never met any of them (assuming it's true). The one thing the Coakley hasn't done is actually address the issues of the day. In fact, her team can't even spell the name of the state she wants to represent. MA has a clear choice ahead of them...do you want to vote for the politics of personal destruction and avoidance of the issues or for someone who is ready to roll up his sleeves to address the problems facing our state and our nation?"

At least that'd be my first pass at it.

8 posted on 01/12/2010 1:33:22 PM PST by highlander_UW (There's a storm coming - little kid at a Mexican gas station in The Terminator)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Not to worry. They’ll bus in hordes of ACORN voters and SEIU thugs to intimidate the rest. Croakley will win by a landslide..............


9 posted on 01/12/2010 1:35:55 PM PST by Red Badger (Obama - The first ever elected lame duck..............)
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To: Republic of Texas
The Democrat panic button doesn’t actually say “Panic”. It says “ACORN”.

This is no joke. While reading a biography of Hitler the
other night I found out that while the Brown Shirts were
legally banned one of the names they operated under was “The Acorns”.

10 posted on 01/12/2010 1:38:35 PM PST by CrazyIvan (What's "My Struggle" in Kenyan?)
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To: MrB
Sevugan's latest hyperpartisan missive says Brown has "made a deal with the devil" by embracing Tea Party principles of low government spending and taxation.

Yeah, that'll really scare the voters of Taxachusetts out of voting for Brown!.ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!

11 posted on 01/12/2010 1:38:47 PM PST by Red Badger (Obama - The first ever elected lame duck..............)
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To: CrazyIvan

It might have been funny, but you’re right. It’s not a joke. ACORN is the new Brownshirts.


12 posted on 01/12/2010 1:41:15 PM PST by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Ha! Sounds like an unwinnable QUAGMIRE.


13 posted on 01/12/2010 1:48:03 PM PST by BraveNewCommie (CLICK ME to help EXPOSE Omoslem!)
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To: Red Badger

That’s what we said in Jersey. The margin of victory was so huge they couldn’t cheat enough. Plus, we weren’t really enthused by Christie-a lot of conservatives held their nose. Nowhere near the excitement Brown has behind him.


14 posted on 01/12/2010 1:56:16 PM PST by MattinNJ (O is going to get his candy ass kicked by a girl. Go Sarah.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Coakley Buys her Union Support ($50 per sign holder)
15 posted on 01/12/2010 2:03:06 PM PST by C210N (A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: highlander_UW

That ad would get my attention. Good one.


16 posted on 01/12/2010 2:19:33 PM PST by maxter (Give today a chance. Enjoy.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

They hit the panic button when they floating the suggestion that they will hold up his confirmation if he is elected to replace the current “selecTed not elecTed” Senator.


17 posted on 01/12/2010 2:23:07 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Al Gore was more concerned with the evil influence of heavy metal than that of radical Imam.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

May we hear that psnic button singing on their way out of office.


18 posted on 01/12/2010 2:59:50 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I have little doubt that the Dems, with help from ACORN, will manufacture all the votes they need to steal the election.

This is Massachussetts after all. A Dem/socialist stronghold.


19 posted on 01/12/2010 3:05:36 PM PST by airborne (God save America!)
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To: airborne

I think you are “spot on” with your post, and feel the same as much as I wish otherwise. The buses will be running to all the cemeteries to make sure all the good ole Democrat folks get to vote!


20 posted on 01/12/2010 3:23:23 PM PST by Fighter@heart (Government, the most inefficient entity to ever exist)
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