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.
I agree. His role is to kill Obamacare. Anything else is not safe until we clear house in November when we take the seats needed so this monstrosity will not be around for years to come..
I don’t want Sarah balanced! Give me two conservatives this time around. We have proven over and over that a good conservative candidate wins elections, why are we trying to balance that. There are a lot of good VP choices for her taht bring their home states/regions/demographic groups but we don’t need to appeal to the MA electorate.
He's still a RINO.
Or is that the part you like?
Cheers!
>> Article: She may end up in the Senate yet, but Martha Coakley will never recover.
Who does not think the stench of foul play will be strong if Coakley wins?
I hardly think so. He's great for the purpose now, but the guy carries some significant baggage--he happens to be pro-abortion, and heaven only knows what else.
Done!Done!Done! Another one under the bus!
Sure hope the GOP isn’t being set up for a huge disappointment. This is still MA, and the RATs run the show there. If Coakley wins tomorrow, the RATs will be dancing in the streets just like in November 2008 like they pulled off some major upset.
He isn’t pro life. I hope he wins but I don’t think he is my kind of conservative.
Democrat George Stephanopoulis is reporting that the election is over so that voters may as well stay home. Seems the Dem strategy from the White House and their surrogates in the press is to do their best to dampen turnout by pretending this is a fait accompli. I’m not buying it. Election hinges on independent voters.
Brown for MA senate—AND NOTHING ELSE.
I contributed only because I seek him to be an asset in halting healthterror and slowing socialism.
But this guy is pro-abortion and voted in favor of Romney healthcare.
So I am not ready to proclaim him as the conservative hope—because he is not acceptable in that role.
Gee, that family almost looks “presidential”
Nah, the lady is a lady not a sasquash and she ain’t wearin any boob belt.
Well, yes, Coakly ran a horrible campaign, and Brown a smart one. But they’re all ignoring the elephant in the living room—democratic, leftist politicians running roughshod over everyday Americans.
It’s not just Barack Obama and his arrogance. Think about Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi insulting the Tea Partiers and Town Hall Protestors, who were not Republican operatives, no matter how many times they and Chris Matthews said they were. Think about Ben Nelson and his special deal—bribe—for his yea vote, a vote his constituents were dead set against. And just this past week Obama gave a bribe to the unions so they won’t have to pay taxes on their health care that the rest of us will, so he can keep them voting ‘d’. The whole health care, cap and trade, and stimulus bill passing that so many Americans honestly oppose is why. All of this, imho, is why Brown will defeat Coakley tomorrow.
Let the driveby media and the democratic party (is there even a difference?) ignore that at their peril.
Scott Brown’s pending win is a repeat of New Jersey and Virginia, and another November is looming. The dems really need to take the results of this election and rethink and restratigize, or they are toast. I’m really hoping they believe their own hype.
“Yeah that’s what I thought. It takes a certain kind of Democrat to lose an election in Massachusetts. Martha Coakley is the Leona Helmsley of Bay State politics. All the Little People should shut up and vote for her because she knows what is best for them.”
Sounds pretty much like John Kerry and Kennedy to me.
At this venture, I could careless what his opinions are on abortion, that isn’t important. Our main concern is stopping Zerocare from becoming law.
“...Dems to dispute the results and go dumpster diving for invalid votes”
I’m waiting for ThunderThighs Hitlery to arrive, like a flying bat, holding a wad of Haitian ‘absentee ballots’.
Right. Win this huge battle then we can worry about the fallout. There's always fallout no matter what you do.
My father always described these situations as "up one hill then up the next."
Brown is opposed to PBA and supports parental notification.
This Party; this White House; there is simply no one more deserving. Out with these people. . .OUT and forever; I wish.
This Party; this White House; there is simply no one more deserving. Out with these people. . .OUT and forever; I wish.
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