Posted on 01/14/2010 10:11:18 AM PST by truthandlife
If she hasn’t done it yet, Martha Coakley may have just killed her campaign.
She’s apparently been trying to win the title of Worst Political Campaign Ever, and she might have just clinched it with her little dig at Scott Brown over Fenway Park. [2]
The appearance characterizes Coakley’s approach to this truncated race. Aware that she has little time for the hand-shaking and baby-kissing of a standard political campaign, she has focused instead on rallying key political leaders, Democratic activists, and union organizers, in hope they will get people to the polls.
… Despite that, there is a subdued, almost dispassionate quality to her public appearances, which are surprisingly few. Her voice is not hoarse from late-night rallies. Even yesterday, the day after a hard-hitting debate, she had no public campaign appearances in the state.
Coakley bristles at the suggestion that, with so little time left, in an election with such high stakes, she is being too passive.
“As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?’’ she fires back, in an apparent reference to a Brown online video of him doing just that. “This is a special election. And I know that I have the support of Kim Driscoll. And I now know the members of the [Salem] School Committee, who know far more people than I could ever meet.’’
There are just so many things wrong with that statement.
It shows her elitism and arrogance unbelievably. Aside from the apparent feeling that the seat belongs to her just by virtue of her party, she just admitted that she doesn’t need to bother meeting with constituents because she’s meeting people like Kim Driscoll, and political leaders, and Democrat activists. I guess they’re the ones that matter, huh? I know it’s a “special election” and all, but that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t need to fight for this seat. Prancing around with this mindset of “Oh, I’m a Democrat, therefore Ted Kennedy’s seat just automatically belongs to me regardless of what the people think,” is idiotic. Acting as if she doesn’t need to give her constituents the time of day is ludicrous. She can make all the snide remarks about Scott Brown shaking hands with people in the cold that she wants, but that’s what you’re supposed to do when you’re trying to get elected. She seems to have forgotten that she’s trying to get elected in Massachusetts, and not in Washington D.C. — if she remembered that, maybe she’d spend more time trying to impress Massachusetts voters and less time rubbing elbows with the Democrat establishment, Big Pharmacy lobbyists, and union leaders. Most normal politicians, Republican or Democrat, do go shake hands with voters. Even if it means standing in the cold outside of Fenway Park.
Finally, has she forgotten who she’s talking to? What state she’s wanting to represent in the Senate? It’s Massachusetts. You do not make sneering insults about Fenway Park. What’s she going to do next, insult the Red Sox? That’d really just be the cherry on top of a delightful campaign. Fenway Park and the Red Sox are damned near sacred to Massachusetts residents, Bostonians in particular. Really, I’m starting to think that she just doesn’t want to get elected or something. Because anyone with half a modicum of sense knows that you do not go into Boston and mess with Fenway Park.
Oh no. He is a conservative ans is outspoken about it!Remember when he told people to vote for Bush after the World Series? The upper management shut him up, but he went on to support McCain and even considered a run himself! I LOVE Schilling!!
sounds like she is using mcpains campaign handbook... :)
I believe John Kerry’s favorite is Manny Ortez...
Curt is the Red Sox gain and the Diamondbacks loss.
she doesn’t have to meet with the little people. She has her union thugs to keep them in line
Just before he retired, I seem to recall some talk about Curt running for office. Anybody else remember that?
Cleary, she expects Dem election fraud to win it for her. She may be right.
Coakley = Pelosi Lite
Curt Schilling, is a die hard Republican. He endorsed GW Bush twice. Help out McCain also
Note to the GOP:
Get out of your limo and meet the real voter and stop depending on robo-calls.
Perhaps?
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Even Teddy K. is flippin’ out, spinning in his grave.......
For a Mass. pol seeking statewide office to be such a total flippin’ PUTZhead (yeah, like you, Chuck Schumer) is simply incredible.
As discussed on another thread, is she determined to destroy her own candidacy now or is she simply the dumbest %#%#$#$$#^$ in the history of politics????
Scott Brown should go do “COLD” weekend public hand-shaking events at all kinds of sports arenas now, with the message that “there ARE politicians who do not despise the ‘masses’ they claim to want to serve......” and..... “there are Mass. pols who DO know that “Manny Ortiz” never played for the Red Sox and that “Peyton Brady” is not the quarterback of the Patriots!!
She’ll tell you she was really excited the day the Bruins beat the Cubs to win the World Bowl.
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