Posted on 01/17/2010 11:09:29 PM PST by goldstategop
No matter what happens at the ballot box tomorrow, one thing is certain: Martha Coakley is a loser.
Even if Bill Clinton and Barack Obama can somehow rescue her candidacy, Coakley will never recover from the self-inflicted damage of the worst political campaign in recent history.
Win or lose, she will forever be Martha the Blind - the woman who couldn’t see terrorists in Afghanistan, or a staffer giving a beatdown to a reporter right before her eyes. She’s Sen. Spellcheck, forced to pull one ad because her campaign misspelled Massachusetts, then another because it superimposed Scott Brown’s image in front of the World Trade Center.
Given the incompetence of her campaign, she was lucky it was a pre-9/11 photo of the towers.
In the Democratic primary, Coakley ran on the one thing she couldn’t get wrong: being a woman. It’s been downhill ever since.
Right after losing the primary, Rep. Michael Capuano was asked what he learned on the campaign trail. “You’re screwed,” he told his Democratic colleagues. Everyone wondered what he meant. Now we know.
While Scott Brown was wearing out a set of truck tires on retail politics, Coakley sniffed at the idea of “standing outside Fenway Park [map], in the cold, shaking hands.” She certainly didn’t waste time explaining her positions on health care or national security to the voters, in part because when she tried, it became painfully clear she didn’t understand them herself.
Coakley’s arrogant assumption of victory was so strong that midway through the brief campaign season, she simply disappeared off the campaign trail for days.
When independent voters and moderate Democrats were wondering if Coakley was out of touch, she answered by jetting off to Washington for a big-dollar lobbyist fundraiser. Why didn’t she just stop by AIG and present them with a bonus check while she was at it?
Then suddenly she found herself in a competitive political race. And how did Coakley respond? She threw a political tantrum.
Voters were deluged with Coakley’s attack ads - so many they could barely fit in the commercial breaks. Dark, ominous and ugly, Coakley’s media message was the polar opposite to that offered by smiling Scott Brown.
In the end, Coakley spent millions on TV ads that actually drove her own numbers down.
And then, as though to prove she couldn’t do anything right, she held a fundraiser starring the U.N. envoy to Haiti.
What was Coakley thinking, having Bill Clinton at a $2,400-per-person fundraiser at the Fairmont Copley while crying Haitian families were clawing through the rubble looking for loved ones? Is rescuing a desperately incompetent Democrat really more important than saving the starving of Haiti?
This is the kind of political stupidity it takes for a Democrat to lose a Senate race in Massachusetts. You can’t just run a weak campaign, or commit a gaffe or two. You’ve got to run an absolute disaster of a campaign to lose to a Republican here.
And that’s what Coakley delivered. It wasn’t the Hindenburg or the Titanic. It was the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic.
She may end up in the Senate yet, but Martha Coakley will never recover.
As if the state's voters are too stupid to understand the ramifications of a Dem loss.
Ohh Noes! Not the Manatee!
I believe you are right. But the Dems are in deep denial about the rejection of Obama AND his socialist policies. Amazingly, they have somehow managed to convince themselves that this is only "an isolated extremist" point of view.
People not only dislike his policies, they don't like him either.
When discussing poll numbers about how people feel about this administration, the media may concede that "people don't like his policies" but they always quickly add "but people like him personally". Why do they feel the need to do that?
To me, he comes across as incredibly arrogant and condescending, and barely conceals his loathing and disdain for America and her people. One cannot really feel that way and successfully hide it for long.
The facade is crumbling.
Had to be someone they could manipulate.
This is more appropriate than the author probably intended. My wife asked me what kind of name Coakley was, so I looked it up at last-names.net. Here's what they say:
The Blind. Indeed.
Its not just Martha’s incomeptance only. Massachusetts does not want the Obama Health Care Bill passed.
This artucle is a spin to throw Coakley under the bus and ignore the elephant in the room.
Well stupid Michael Gtaham, write the other half of the article and talk about the inopmpetant stupidity of Obama.Then you do us the considerable favor of finally giving us the full picture. Or perhaps you only have the balls of a liberal to kick a liberal female colleague when she is down, without talking on the still-standing-for-now head rauncho himself, Barak Insane Obama.He is the true creator of this “Republican Victory.” Few admit it. They are too afraid of Obama and the left.
Or, stated another way: she could always serve as a pis* poor example.
She has made many blunders which shows Massachusetts she does not even know her state.
Curt Shilling our ace pitcher (Red Sox) for the World Series (bloody sock ring a bell?), she called him a Yankees fan. A Yankees fan?????? She has rocks in her head!
The Taliban are gone from Afghanistan??? I barely watch the news and I know this is not even close to being true. What does this woman do all day.
This kills her for most fans of any sport in Mass., it also rids all Veterans and enlisted from voting for her, and all she and Obama talked about was how Scott Brown drove a pickup truck and be wary of getting behind him and his truck it will take you in the wrong direction. Well, lost truck drivers too!
What a laugh!
I wonder who holds the best FBI files now?
Hillary?
Barack?
or “W”?
Sarah Palin.
Everyone wondered what he meant. Now we know.
Voters' loathing has never been more apparent. And understandably so.
They have endured the insolence of Ohaha, Bwaney Fwank, Pelosi, and Harry Reid as they sneered at tea partiers......and saw the condescending attitudes to anyone who dared oppose the healthcare atrocity.
Now these officeholders must bear the brunt of voters' discontent.
Right after losing the primary to Coakley, Rep. Michael Capuano was asked what he learned on the campaign trail. “You’re screwed,” he told his Democratic colleagues.
I'm starting to become envious of the people in Massachusetts. In IL we have far more STOO-PID™ democRAT politicians than they do. And the dumb sobs keep on winning!
(Coakley should move to Chicago after she loses, she'll fit right in.)
People not only dislike Obama's policies, they don't like him ........ he comes across as incredibly arrogant and condescending, and barely conceals his loathing and disdain for America and her people. The facade is crumbling.Like with every Snake Oil Salesman the slick talk and lies only work for so long. Then you have to skedaddle out of town before the little people get the Tar & Feathers.
And like with every Snake Oil Salesman the Kenyan's problem is that his Snake Oil 'medicine' is making everyone sick but there's no town for him to skedaddle from. He's stuck in DC and can't hide from the little people his *medicine* has made sick.
Lucky for him Tar & Feathers are hard to get nowadays. There's always 'Rope and a Rail' but the Secret Service may not approve of that fine Old West tradition.(1) So his best hope is being Impeached and Convicted of Treason and Abuse of Power in 2011. Then he can fly out of town in the dead of night and back to his 'home' in Hawaii.
(1) Riding a Snake Oil Salesman out of town on a rail. (nothing ELSE is inferred from 'rope')
The Boston Herald does a nice job at putting things in the right perspective.
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