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Heat Of The Race Shows Martha's True Character (Why Scott Brown Can Sleep Well Tonight Alert)
Boston Herald ^ | 1/18/2010 | Joe Fitzgerald

Posted on 01/17/2010 10:55:20 PM PST by goldstategop

If the old saw is true, that a clear conscience is the softest pillow, Scott Brown ought to sleep well tonight, content he took the high road in his bid to succeed Ted Kennedy.

He proved you don’t have to go to every fight you’re invited to, no matter how much you’re provoked by a desperate opponent willing to win by any means necessary.

If Martha Coakley was accurately portrayed by her campaign, shame on her; if the portrayal that emerged was the handiwork of her handlers, shame on them.

When Raymond Berry coached the Patriots [team stats] he was fond of pointing out, “Heat not only builds character; it reveals character.”

And what the heat of this campaign revealed was that Coakley, who started out presenting herself as a woman of grace and dignity, is, in fact, the personification of the old boys’ network.

She almost had us fooled, but then she began to feel the heat.

She ignored a reporter’s uncomfortable question, then looked the other way while one of her toadies knocked him to the ground. And she’s our top law enforcement officer? Please.

She asked us to believe that Brown, who has two daughters, is totally callous to the trauma of rape. How scurrilous.

She told us to look at Brown and see George W. Bush. Really? Should we then look at her, a product of the entrenched Beacon Hill establishment, and see Dianne Wilkerson, Marian Walsh or Sal DiMasi? Would that not be just as reasonable?

And speaking of associations, why does she need Barack Obama when Deval Patrick’s already here? OK, that’s rhetorical.

The national implications of this campaign are obvious; the returns will be seen by many as a referendum on the president, for a Brown victory would suggest Americans are not happy with the way the country’s going.

But the local implications are enormous, too, because in Massachusetts we’re not used to having our opinions matter.

Referenda? We told the Beacon Hill crowd how we felt about term limits, capital punishment and legislative pay raises. No one listened. And then that same crowd made very sure no one knew how we felt about gay marriage.

So what’s beautiful about tomorrow is that they are finally going to have to listen to us as one of their own asks for our support.

And that makes this a certainty: When the totals are announced, we will have gotten exactly what we deserved.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2010elections; beaconhill; bostonherald; joefitzgerald; ma2010; marthacoakley; massachusetts; scottbrown
The Beacon Hill crowd is getting the treatment from Massachusetts voters - the same treatment it dished out to them over the years. And Martha Coakely is on the receiving end of it. No wonder Scott Brown can sleep well tonight. His opponent's - and the Democratic establishment's true character has been revealed... which the state's inhabitants don't like much. And that's how they will pay for their sins in a fortnight.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find only things evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelogus

1 posted on 01/17/2010 10:55:22 PM PST by goldstategop
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To: goldstategop
"She ignored a reporter’s uncomfortable question, then looked the other way while one of her toadies knocked him to the ground. And she’s our top law enforcement officer?"

Not accurate, she looked right at him.

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2 posted on 01/17/2010 11:06:21 PM PST by Roccus (ABLE DANGER?????...................What's an ABLE DANGER???)
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This was so disgusting and Meehan is an Obama thug. What an awful woman.


3 posted on 01/17/2010 11:18:36 PM PST by Frantzie (TV - sending Americans towards Islamic serfdom - Cancel TV service NOW)
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>>”She ignored a reporter’s uncomfortable question, then looked the other way while one of her toadies knocked him to the ground. And she’s our top law enforcement officer?”<<

Which makes the statement all the more damning. She looked the other way WHILE SHE WAS LOOKING AT THE EVENT.

MUI The Boston Herald is pretty MSM — in for obama an liberalism, which means they have been smacked with a rolled-up newspaper (pun sort of meant) on the nose.

The only thing greater than the MSMs’ liberal bent is their ego in thinking They Matter.


4 posted on 01/17/2010 11:36:33 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks. Sic semper tyrannis)
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Referenda? We told the Beacon Hill crowd how we felt about term limits, capital punishment and legislative pay raises. No one listened. And then that same crowd made very sure no one knew how we felt about gay marriage.

This guy was dead-on. Hopefully the people of Massachusetts will go to the polls this November with revenge on their minds. For far too long the Democrat political in Mass. has ignored the will of the electorate and have never paid for it.

Here's hoping they get payback in spades this Fall.

5 posted on 01/17/2010 11:37:45 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Mary Jo Kopechne would be a Scott Brown voter!!)
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To: freedumb2003
She looked the other way WHILE SHE WAS LOOKING AT THE EVENT.

She even claimed she "...didn't see the incident."
She may still be claiming that.

6 posted on 01/17/2010 11:45:28 PM PST by Roccus (ABLE DANGER?????...................What's an ABLE DANGER???)
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What has the Democrats shaking in their boots is if Brown win is a state that is as liberal and bluer than blue as Massychoosets (hey, I’m not from there I can spell it however the hell I want) is, how will they fare in more moderate states?


7 posted on 01/18/2010 12:05:41 AM PST by Bad Jack Bauer (Fat and Bald? I was BORN fat and bald, thank you very much!)
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“The only thing greater than the MSM’s liberal bent is their ego in thinking They Matter.”

Well, they do.

Notice how their constant barrage of liberal propaganda has turned almost fifty percent of the population toward the left.

They certainly are a potent force and they Do Matter.
(And, ya’ know, they certainly are brilliant, ya’ know, ya’know?)

IMHO


8 posted on 01/18/2010 4:27:11 AM PST by ripley
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To: goldstategop
We told the Beacon Hill crowd how we felt about term limits, capital punishment and legislative pay raises. No one listened. And then that same crowd made very sure no one knew how we felt about gay marriage.

So what’s beautiful about tomorrow is that they are finally going to have to listen to us as one of their own asks for our support.

How sweet it is, especially for us conservatives here in MA.

Can't wait to fire up my victory stogie!

9 posted on 01/18/2010 4:30:11 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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Mahthur (in proper Massachusetts dialect) is where she is politically for one reason only - television.

Her entire career owes itself to televised press conferences after some murder, child abuse case, or public scandal. She's been able to parlay successfully this notoriety right to the Attorney General's office. When it comes to elections for state offices it's all about name recognition, and she had all that over her opposition candidates (when she had them).

The worm has finally turned for her, her gig is up, and she ran into a buzzsaw named Brown, whose personality and genuineness is no match for Mahthur's cold and dead fish demeanor that's now been stripped bare for all to see. Couple that with the fact that she's dumber than a box of rocks and there you are, a loser candidate if there ever was one.

10 posted on 01/18/2010 4:50:40 AM PST by Lovely-Day-For-A-Guinness (Eenie meanie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak....)
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