"Does anybody want to stay after class to get one-on-one with their homework?"
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.
“WHITE HOUSE BRACING FOR SHATTERING LOSS IN MA”
What a comforting headline.
and shes not holding her gut in with an ammo belt
Scott "says" he supports women's right to choose, but he seems to be rubbing their pro-abort noses in the "right to choose" fallacy b/c he further says:
<< he opposes partial-birth abortion,
<< he opposes federal funding for abortion,
<< he supports strong parental notification laws.
He "says" he supports Roe v. Wade but he has NOT promised to protect abortion rights, and has been endorsed by the anti-abortion Massachusetts Citizens for Life.
IMHO as a dedicated pro-lifer, Scott has simply taken a new route to being pro-life......we can all learn from this.
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Here are some of Scott Brown’s other positions:
He favors the death penalty.
He is against gay marriage.
He questions whether global warming is man-made or natural.
He does not believe waterboarding is torture.
You should be banned for saying Barney Fwank and loins in the same sentence :-)....
Seriously, I talked to a bud here in MI, we make take a red-eye out and volunteer against Bwaney when his competitor starts building up steam.
Bwaney your next....
"Does anybody want to stay after class to get one-on-one with their homework?"
Ben Nelson made it perfectly clear that you can't trust a "pro-life Democrat" so I think it follows that you can't trust a "pro-Abortion Republican".
At this point all we can do is hope that the democrat loses. Let us pray this is not a Pyrrhic victory in the end.
He’s sounding better and better.
Great minds think alike!!
“Vote for Brown. He Has One Hell of a Stimulus Package.”
;)
I'm glad you posted this. I was a little skeptical when Brown surged onto the scene. But, after doing some research, he's not a RINO. While he may not score a 100 from the ACU, he's a solid Republican and a fairly conventional conservative, which makes his showing in MA all the more surprising. He is NOT cut from the same cloth as Collins, Snowe or Graham, to say the least.
No way I’d vote for Brown or Coakly(sp?). Personally, I’m not a republican anymore, so their putting another traitor in their midst is simply the way they operate.
If the guy doesn’t know that it’s evil to kill babies, then he doesn’t believe anything is truly evil. It’s all simply negotiable.
God told Jeremiah: “Before you were formed in the womb I knew you...”
nhwingut says “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.”
I know how you feel. I lived in Mass until 1984. As a kid I watched the debate between drunk Teddy and his opponent Edward McCormack back in 1962. I watched Teddy get fatter and drunker as the years passed. I watched him leave a naive little girl trapped in his car to die as he planned his own Houdini act. I watched drunk Teddy turn his Catholic heritage into support for the cold blooded killing of 40 million innocent children since Roe v Wade in 1973. I watched drunk Teddy sell the good residents of Mass down the river for 47 years. Eventually the damage done by drunk Teddy negatively affected the residents of all 50 states. Now we finally get a chance to encourage Massachusetts patriots to reclaim their just heritage. It was heroic and strong men and women from Mass who gave our country life at the very beginning. Now the voters of Massachusetts can give new life to America and make amends for the 47 year nightmare which was drunk Teddy.
Massachusetts citizens lived through 84 years of torture when the Red Sox failed to win a world series. For me, the win tomorrow night by Scott Brown will feel like it did in 2004 when the Red Sox finally came through, except it will feel even better because stopping the democRAT takeover of everything in our lives is so much more important. Go Scott Brown and Go Massachusetts patriots.
I hope that it's opposition to Coakley/Obama policies and not primarily campaign tactical mistakes that would put a republican into MA.
But MA needs to prove itself to the nation. There have been waaaay too many years of tolerated Kennedy shenanigans and liberal policy preferences for MA to be considered to have its head screwed on straight.
All due respect to MA freepers, of course.
We can't really believe Planned Parenthood, and that ilk, think Scott is in their camp.
SCOTT'S IS HARDLY A PRO-ABORTION POSITION Scott "says" he supports women's right to choose, but he seems to be rubbing their pro-abort noses in the "right to choose" fallacy b/c he further says:
<< he opposes partial-birth abortion,
<< he opposes federal funding for abortion,
<< he supports strong parental notification laws.
He "says" he supports Roe v. Wade but he has NOT promised to protect abortion rights, and has been endorsed by the anti-abortion Massachusetts Citizens for Life.
IMHO as a dedicated pro-lifer, Scott has simply taken a new route to being pro-life......we can all learn from this.
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Here are some of Scott Brown’s other positions:
He favors the death penalty.
He is against gay marriage.
He questions whether global warming is man-made or natural.
He does not believe waterboarding is torture.
Thanks for those policy recaps.
If Coakley loses the spin will be that DumBO kept her from being a disaster and that shows his strength and of his policies. If Coakley is a loser, the spin is ZerO is not.
Doesn't matter to the holier-than-thou FReepers.
You see, Brown has to issue a decree from a scroll tablet declaring all abortions illegal.
Not sure why you are yelling at me. First, I wasn’t taking planned parenthoods word. I was taking Scott Brown’s, his official position is that abortion should always be legally available. That IMHO isn’t pro life. Yes he does agree to limitations on abortion and for that he is a better choice than ANY liberal. But he isn’t conservative on this issue, he is more moderate.
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Too bad he is still open on GW. It would be better if he said “GW is a massive hoax by the intelligentsia to exercise control over every aspect of your lives>
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