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“I hope MA Freepers will support independent Scott Lively”

I AM voting for Lively. I WILL NOT vote for Baker. I blanked my ballot for years ago and he has not improved. He learned absolutely nothing from his loss. He’s like Tom Dewey, he thinks he’s just going to be put into office because the other guy is just so bad. But it doesn’t work that way, and like Tom Dewey, he’s going to lose twice.

“and like Tom Dewey, he’s going to lose twice”

Of course he will, if conservatives vote for someone *in the general* who has a 0.01% chance of winning (I’m being generous). There was a freaking Republican primary—why didn’t that conservative run in it? Maybe Lively’s odds of beating Baker in the primary weren’t very high, but they’re exponentially higher than his odds of beating Coakley and Baker in the general.

I understand that Baker is no better than a 50% conservative. But he’s the nominee of a major party, has fundraising ability and fairly good name ID, has a record he can point to, and has a genuine chance of winning the election: maybe it’s 40%, maybe it’s 20%, but it’s an actual chance. Lively has none of those things, and his odds of winning are nil. And while Baker may be a 50% liberal, Coakley is a 99% liberal. Four years of Coakley will only send Massachusetts deeper into the hole of perversion and financial irresponsibility, so how would it help achieve any of Lively’s goals to throw away one’s vote by helping him get 5% or 10% (instead of 0%) and result in Coakley getting elected?

I have no reason to doubt Lively’s good intentions, but if he truly wants to move the MA GOP towards nominating conservatives (which is his purported aspiration), he should have run in the GOP primary.