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We were both DUFUing the same thread at the same time, PJ! You posted yours while I was still working on mine. So . . . I'll just do a mini-DUFU within your DUFU! Here's the first installment:

Red Mass?

["Red Mass" sounds like something that would fit a "Kennedy Catholic" like you, Will Pitt.]

Audio version of this article can be found here. . . .

[Wee Willie has even RECORDED his outoftruth essay, so we can all hear his gravelly voice!]

The nature of modern American politics has been off-the-wall weird for a dozen years now. We've seen a president impeached for lying about sex. We've seen another president who was selected instead of elected in an orgiastic festival of Florida and federal fraud. We saw an administration use the darkest day in our history as an excuse to scare us, spy on us, steal from us and start false wars in our name. We've seen a vice president go on national television and advocate the benefits and blessings of torture. We came within an eyelash of seeing the first woman president elected in this still-misogynist nation, and did see the first African-American president elected in this still-racist nation.

[Blah, blah, blah. . . . Get to Massachusetts, O Logorrheal One.]

The open US Senate seat for Massachusetts, held since 1962 by the late liberal icon Edward M. Kennedy, could be filled on Tuesday by an outrageously hard-right Republican named Scott Brown. . . . A seat that has been in Democratic hands since God was in short pants. . . .

[Hey, that reminds me, Will: Any comment on your old buddy and colleague Scott RITTER getting caught with HIS short pants down?]

That a man like this is even within shouting distance of winning a true-blue Massachusetts Senate seat is eloquent proof that the world has, indeed, gone completely barking mad.

[We barked it.]

I don't give a great deal of credence to the doom-and-gloom predictions for the Democrats' electoral chances in 2010. . . . But if Ted Kennedy's seat is in play, in deeply Democratic Massachusetts, anything is possible, and I might have to rethink my incredulity.

[Expect a "Self-Recanted Evening" on Wednesday.]

Wearily, I must ask.

Link on next comment below, but here’s a condensation:

I’ve been watching Skins’s island like a hawk, since the news broke yesterday (Thursday) about a colleague of the Bostonian Drunkard getting into some, uh, trouble.

There’s been some campfires on Skins’s island about the matter, but conspicuous by his non-presence is the one who knows the former arms-inspector better than anybody else on Skins’s island, and out here in the civilized world.

When one’s pal is in trouble, one is morally and socially obligated to stick up for him.

Otherwise, one’s about as false and fake as a Bela Pelosi promise.

One’s lower than dog excresence on the ground, if one doesn’t stand up for a pal.

Well, you know, sir, we’ve all had friends who at one time or another did something really stupid or unhonest or depraved or just plain ridiculous.

A gentleman makes no excuses for such a friend, a gentleman does not try to justify those acts, a gentleman does not ignore those things.....but at the same time, a gentleman does not abandon a bosom pal.

This is a clear-cut black-and-white issue; either Mr. Wm. Pitt is a gentleman, or Mr. Wm. Pitt is an ungrateful sleazeball who doesn’t deserve any better than what he gives.

This is a prime opportunity for Mr. Wm. Pitt to show us he can be a gentleman.

Actually, one wonders if there’s something else going on under the surface.

When the Bostonian Drunkard and the discredited arms-inspector jointly wrote that book, the latter writing 84% of it, while the former bore the expenses of having it published, the latter walked away with the revenues.

Oh my.

PING 2.0! Besides Pitt's thread (see posts #18 and #21), this is the other DUmmie thread I was working on when PJ posted. More "DUFU within a DUFU"! It's a Double DUFU! WHEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!

The DUmmies are hitting the PANIC button over the Brown-Coakley race in Massa . . . Massa-something. Oh, yeah, that's one of the incredibly inept things Martha Coakley has done in this race: She ran an ad that misspelled the name of the state she wants to represent! Add that to a long list of blunders from this unlikeable, arrogant, aloof Democrat candidate, which could cause her to lose the safest of safe seats in the bluest of blue states. And so the Left is in Ultra-Panic Mode!

Yes, Martha Chokely could LOSE "Ted Kennedy's seat," and that would be quite a feat. All week the polls have been going more and more in the direction of Republican Scott Brown, and now the Dems are realizing they could lose not only that seat, but with it their super-majority in the Senate. And, if MASSACHUSETTS, of all places, goes Red, what does that portend for November??

Martha assumed she could just coast in because she has a "D" by her name. So she didn't bother to do any real campaigning. In the one debate she finally agreed to do, she came off poorly in comparison with Brown. The other day she tried to duck a reporter's question, and her big union thug handler put a body check into the guy, knocking him down and then blocking him from getting near her. Unfortunately, this incident was caught on film, and it even shows Martha seeing what happened, although she tried to deny it. And now she has insulted the vast Catholic population of Massachusetts by saying that they should not be able to work in hospital emergency rooms, since their church opposes abortion. If this were American Idol, Martha Chokely would make the highlight reel of bad auditions.

Add to that the Mass appeal of Scott Brown AND the unpopularity of what Obama and the Dems are doing in DC, and it spells P-A-N-I-C, G-L-O-O-M, and D-O-O-M! Witness this THREAD, "If Coakley Loses, Expect Massive Dems Losses Later This Year."

So let us now sample the distress of the DUmmies, in Blue-Turning-Red, while the commentary of your humble guest correspondent, Charles Henrickson, guarding his optimism with the knowledge that this IS Massachusetts, after all, is in the [brackets]:

If Coakley Loses, Expect Massive Dems Losses Later This Year

[Massive-lose-seats.]

A Coakley loss in Mass. is a sign that the Dem base is demoralized whilst the conservative base is energized.

[Martha Chokely: Putting the "Dem" in "Demoralized."]

Ever since 2006, the Dems, in particular the Congressional Dems, have done little or nothing about effectuating real change. It started with "take impeachment of Bush off the table". . . .

[Of course! That's it! Martha needs to launch her last-minute Chimpeachment push! A sure winner!]

a Coakley loss will embolden the Tea Party crowd and conservatives.

[You read the Tea leaves correctly.]

special elections are often funky and Coakley has run an awful campaign and blew a 30-point lead.

[Her campaign is in a Blew State.]

Workers have gotten laid off en masse from government institution including but not limited to MassPort, MasDOT, Boston Housing . . .

[En masse in Mass.]

. . . Department of Mental Retardation, Department of Mental Health as well as a state run Mental Hospital.

[Traditional Democrat strongholds.]

There is a lot of anger and folks feeling alienated here. . . . Coakly loses, it will be more due to voter feeling left out in the cold.

[Things go bitter with Coak.]

I doubt Coakly loses though.

[Well, you do have the SEIU Purpleshirts, the Gay State GLBTers, and the 130% turnout precincts, so you may be right.]

it might mean she's run a weak campaign and some people liked his nude Cosmo photos.

[Is that you, Bawney Fwank?]

Why don't you blame Obama? He's the one who took impeachment off the table.

[IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!]

Between Obama, Reid, and Pelosi, we have the most lackluster, lightweight bunch of Democratic leaders imaginable.

[And Coakley has managed to out-lackluster and out-lightweight them!]

This isnt just any old seat, this was Kennedey's for decades.

[A Bridge to the 1960s.]

I very much hope for Martha Coakley to win on Tuesday.

[Canny Coakley will hit the target!]

GO, MARTHA!

[GO TO YOUR ROOM AND STAY THERE! QUIT MESSING THINGS UP!]

From down here, it looks like the real problem is Coakley and crew winging it thinking she can cakewalk into the seat and getting a rude awakening when Brown throws everything into his campaign. (Moderately charismatic underdog working his ass off to beat boring favorite-- what movie plot is this?)

[The Unthinkable Manly Brown?]

Opinions are like armpits...Everybody has them, most of them stink.

[Speaking of smelly Pitts, let's check in with the Bostonian Drunkard . . .]

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And from there I picked up the Pitt thread.