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.
On abortion, I think I get what the Catholic bishops do not get: that a big liberal government is a danger to the freedom of religion. Separation of church and state IS necessary for freedom of religion. unless you want the church turned into an instrument of state power.
Although Marcia Coakley ran a poor campaign.
This election is not about HER! (It’s not even really about Scott Brown) I wish our side would stop taking the bait from the MSM that it is only because of her incompetence that she will lose tomorrow. They have been saying this over and over and over and over.
NO! NO! NO! NO!
This storyline completely downplays the significance of what is truly happening in the most liberal of all states. In a U.S. Senate Seat that has been held by Teddy Kennedy since 1492.
That people across the country, of all backgrounds and party affiliations are fed up with the socialist policies of Øbama, Pelosi & Reid. The people are fed up with them telling us how they are going to run Washington and interfere in our lives - despite our overwhelming opposition.
THIS IS ABOUT CONSERVATISM! THIS IS ABOUT PRO-AMERICAN & PRO-CAPITALIST POLICIES! THIS IS ABOUT TELLING THEM TO STAY THE HELL OUT OF OUR LIVES!
Certainly, Scott Brown turned this statewide special election into a national spectacle, because of his solid opposition to the Obamacare HealthControl legislation, and he is to be commended for it.
However, at the end of the day - this is so much bigger than just one U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts.
We must counter this falsehood whenever and wherever it is repeated.
I will guarentee that he will be one of People’s 50 most beautiful people in their next issue!
You get it. And I agree.
Gee, that family almost looks “presidential”?
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Hey if he has no skeletons we could have someone here! Geez, he could take mass. into the GOP column and it’s over. I don’t know if Romney would take Mass any thoughts on that anyone?
He's a big step up for Mass. It took us a while to slide down into the mess we're in - it's going to take a while to climb out.
The Dems have been operating in increments - we may have to, too.
“It doesn’t matter.” (Just like New Jersey and Virigina)
Leona was better!
“I expect the Dems to dispute the results and go dumpster diving for invalid votes to put Coakley over the top.”
Ya think they’ll get 60,000 of those? (5% margin)...
I think of her as the Mike Nifong. And yes she ought to be disbarred.
Unlike Abe Lincoln and his family, right?
While I will rejoice that the democrat loses this race, Brown is still pro-abortion and as such I could never vote for him or contribute anything to his campaign.
He might someday undergo a phony change of heart like Romney (another RINO that looks presidential), in order to pacify the base at some point in the future, but I believe that Abortion is a fundamental indicator of a man's heart and I will probably never trust a pro-choice Republican to do the right thing on any issue.
It concerns me that this victory might conclude some to think that the pro-life platform is now negotiable. And history has taught us that a person who is not a social conservative isn’t really a fiscal conservative either.
I agree that we need to support him. He does want some restrictions on abortion. Just wish he was prolife.
What is a presidential family supposed to “look like” anyway? The Obamas and Clintons “looked” as presidential as the Bushes. The greatest modern president, Ronald Reagan, had a son who wore a tutu (and acted the part).
Yes I know. He sounds like an “I don’t support it but think it should be kept legal” kind of guy. It does make a difference. He doesn’t seem to love death like liberals do.
Agreed, it is a step in the right direction.
So was George Herbert Walker Bush, until he received a phone call from Ronald Reagan in 1980.
I refer you to George HW Bush until he got a phone call from Reagan in 1980.
Did you ever vote for George HW Bush? He was pro-abortion until Reagan phoned him in 1980.
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