Scott and Gail Brown, daughters: Ayla and Arianna, both college students.
Posted on 01/18/2010 4:51:57 PM PST by Liz
George Stephanopoulous reports this evening to ABC-TV News anchor, Diane Sawyer, that the Obama White House is bracing for a shatterng loss in MA. Obama had not planned to campaign for Coakley, then thought it best to make an appearance,. Now she is running ads from that appearance. But the White House tacitly acknowledges that the Republican Scott Brown will take the blue, blue, blue state of MA by storm.
Brown, a state Senator, has been enthusiastically endorsed by organized, vociferous Tea Partiers who have cheered him on around the state at each campaign stop. A Brown win would blow ObamaCare out of the political waters.
THE BOSTON HERALD NAILS IT:
1/18/2010, By Michael Graham
FR Posted 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 UN 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.
Scott and Gail Brown, daughters: Ayla and Arianna, both college students.
Bump
Gee, that family almost looks “presidential”?
call for Brown tonight ... and tomorrow and expect them to have to fight for it.. the dems are not done yet and it will be bloody...
expect the dirtiest of tricks.. and methods.
This will get ugly as the vote climbs.. the worse the lose the worse it will get ...
strap down its going to be bumpy...
The conservatives are portraying this as a fait accompli, so if Coakley pulls it out, the Dems are going to go into orbit.
If he pulls this out - knocking on wood - you have to put him on the list of possible VP choices, or better in a future election. 2012 might be too soon, but 2016 isn’t.
Good looking family.
"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
Oh, my...
I grew up and lived in Mass until about 10 years ago.
Other than the day I was married and the birth of my children, tomorrow could quite possibly be the happiest day of my life.
The Libs are toast. It is over. Buck up. We are kickin Ass!
“Shattering”.....lulz.
Surprised this lametard jack squat of an administration did not use catastrophic or some such since many of his libtard love supporters are touting a Brown victory as being on the same level as the biblical and epic devastation of Haiti.......
It ain't over until the VOTE but at least the dems are highly qualified.
I am holding my nose and watching Hardball. They are basically conceding the election to Brown and painting Coakley as just running a bad campaign. Boston Globe reporter said she would rather eat glass than campaign. He said Brown, by contrast, ran a very effective ad yesterday showing him walking through Southie shaking hands. Looks good for the good guys judging by the astonishment of Chris the Tingle and crowd
I hope Brown wins, but if he does, I expect the Dems to dispute the results and go dumpster diving for invalid votes to put Coakley over the top.
And that’s a puppy she’s holding not another Levi Jr.!!!!
No! Let him stay in that Senate seat! They might not elect another Republican next time. The time was right this time (if he does indeed win). Besides, he’s really not conservative enough, unless you’re thinking of a balance to Sarah.
Might as well toss in Billy Buckner's bobbled ground ball in there too, for good measure ... hehehehee :)
You have that right! My thoughts also. Hmmmmmmmm.....
I understand that Barney Frank has volunteered his services for Dems when they gird their loins...
"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
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