Posted on 01/18/2010 10:53:48 AM PST by presidio9
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling took new aim at one another Monday, the day before voters hit the polls for the special election to fill the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley and former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling took new aim at one another Monday, the day before voters hit the polls for the special election to fill the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.
Still shaking his head at being called a Yankee fan, the Red Sox great told Fox News that Coakley doesn't understand Massachusetts voters.
"I think she seems to be very out of touch with who they are and what they are and what they want," Schilling said, also slamming Coakley's performance as attorney general. "If you go back and look at her resume, it's not very good. She hasn't done very well"
Less than an hour later, at a campaign stop at a diner in Newton, Mass., Coakley responded to Schilling's comments saying voters will make that decision.
"I'm not concerned about what Curt Schilling says," she added.
In a radio interview last week, Coakley was widely criticized for what her campaign called a "deadpan" joke in which Coakley called Schilling a Yankee fan.
This ignited a fiery debate that Coakley was then offending Boston sports fans, which would be perceived as a big blunder in the heart of Red Sox nation. Her camp continues to say it was
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I wonder, in a Snob Contest between Coakley, Kerry and Obama, which one could stick their nose higher in the air?
She’s an idiot.
It seems that Martha (Marcia?) Coakley went to the same School of Stupid Things for Politicians to Say as Joe Biden.
I heard she also mocked Brown for greeting the fans of the Boston Bruins.
“I meant it as a JOKE! .... Yeah, that’s the ticket.”
The woman definitely doesn't have a sense of humor; she should have said something pithy here but its not in her to do so..
Which is proof positive IMO that the earlier comment was NOT a joke.
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