The Real Loser In The Massachusetts Election

Townhall.com ^ | January 26, 2010 | Phyllis Schlafly

[Kaslin]

Smarting from their surprise loss in the race to fill the U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts, the Democrats are throwing their candidate, Martha Coakley, under the bus. They blame her for running a poor campaign that made losers out of Barack Obama, the Democrats, their bad health care bill and even Ted Kennedy in his grave.

Many reasons, of course, contributed to Scott Brown's remarkable victory. However, the chief reason Coakley's campaign didn't connect with the voters is that she is a feminist, causing even a liberal female TV commentator to admit she is "unappealing."

The feminists for years have had a stranglehold over the Democratic Party, enforcing their rule that every Democratic presidential candidate must pledge his fidelity to abortion with taxpayer funding. But abortion is only the first commandment of feminist ideology, and Coakley revealed much, much more, so let's use her defeat as a teaching moment.

"Martha's a really great candidate for everything that NOW stands for," gushed Christina Knowles, director of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Organization for Women (NOW). Coakley was, indeed, a really great advocate for NOW's feminist ideology, but that did not attract the voters.

It was not so great when Coakley was disdainful about Brown campaigning in the cold outside Fenway Park, the fabled home of the beloved Boston Red Sox. It was not so great when Coakley dismissed one of the biggest Red Sox stars as a "Yankee fan."

Those comments fit the profile of feminists who have contempt for men's sports and therefore have eliminated hundreds of men's teams from college athletic programs under a misinterpretation of Title IX. Howard University even canceled both wrestling and baseball on the same day, giving double pleasure to the hateful feminists.

Boston University is the largest school in Boston, but it no longer has an NCAA baseball team. Nationwide, feminist opposition to anything masculine has forced the elimination of more than 450 wrestling teams.

Coakley insulted people with religious values by declaring that those who oppose abortion probably shouldn't work in emergency rooms because an occasional patient might demand an immediate abortion. Feminists refuse to allow respect for a right of conscience because that might get in the way of their ideology that abortion is women's premier right.

Feminists pretend they want all laws and behavior to be gender-neutral, with identical treatment of male and female (and other genders, whatever they are). But when it comes to domestic violence and child abuse, feminist ideology decrees that men are naturally batterers and women never lie so they don't have to present evidence in order to convict a man.

As prosecutor, Coakley followed this pattern when she insisted on treating a falsely accused man worse than a falsely accused woman. As copiously detailed by Dorothy Rabinowitz in The Wall Street Journal, Coakley persecuted the Amirault family for child abuse even after it became widely recognized that they had been imprisoned on false charges.

Although virtually everyone aware of the Amirault case recognized it to be as preposterous as the false allegation of rape against the Duke lacrosse players, Coakley insisted on continued incarceration of the Amirault brother in contrast with the release of his sister. Coakley insisted that when women are involved in child abuse cases, the real culprit is typically "a primary male offender."

Eventually, the falsely accused man, Gerald Amirault, was released by the extraordinary intervention of the Massachusetts parole board, considered the toughest in the nation. That followed an exhaustive investigation, but Coakley continued to pretend that he was somehow guilty.

Democratic Party leadership has shown that it cannot or will not stand up to the incoherent, man-hating attitude of feminists like Coakley. For example, after they had a tantrum and demanded that the majority of jobs created by Obama's stimulus be given to women (instead of to shovel-ready jobs), even though most of those who lost jobs in this recession are men, President Obama dutifully acquiesced.

It's no wonder that non-college-educated men voted overwhelmingly for Brown against Coakley by a massive 27-point margin. The Democrats are lucky enough to elect some feminists, but feminists are just too unappealing when running against a masculine man such as Brown.

Brown's driving a 2005 GMC pickup truck (which Obama sneered at) symbolized the elitism of Coakley, who drives a foreign car. While Coakley was sipping wine with drug and insurance company PAC representatives, Brown was shaking hands with the voters.

Commentary about Brown's appeal to women is diversionary -- it was male voters who overwhelmingly pulled the lever for him. Men are fed up with the feminist mindset and delivered a clear message in the Massachusetts election: give us a candidate who stands up to the feminists, and we will cross over from Democrat and independent to elect a Republican.

[whitedog57]

Great story.

I work with women like Coakley. They actually tried to have men fired from a university if a woman simply complained about sexual harassment. I pointed out the moral hazard problem: if you know that the professor will be fired by a simple accusation, what prevents women from simply saying “Give me an A or a blow the whistle.” Her response was “Men think like that, women don’t.”

[Kaslin]

Thanks, she’s obviously a liberal

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

She really came across much like an old time racist kook, who at every opportunity blames everything on the race that she hates. Why even bother electing such a person? They do not want a job, they just want to “get even”.

She didn’t spend her campaign trying to appeal to voters, but cursing everyone and everything she hates. This was why she was so unpopular.

[nomodem]

Feminism - affirmative action for ugly women.

[FrankR]

obama has thrown so many people under the bus he’s going to have to install oversized tires and wheels.

[Saltmeat]

This is another “it is everybody's fault but Obama’s” story. I doubt that very many voters went to the polls in MA with feminism on their minds. They went to the polls with the economy, unemployment, run-away spending and socialistic healthcare on their minds. I doubt that many had NOW at the top of their list.

[mlizzy]

She didn’t spend her campaign trying to appeal to voters, but cursing everyone and everything she hates. This was why she was so unpopular.

Did she include this photo in her campaign literature, for the lab-lover's vote? And she is married (to a man!). What's not to like? /sarc

I read online she has no children. True? Maybe if she did, she'd be a little more concerned about their pre-born state, however I also realize, once pro-choice, always pro-baby-death, until they are converted that is. We don't even know for sure, but Teddy Kennedy, on his death bed, may have asked forgiveness and turned back to his pro-life stance just in the nick of time. One can always hope so. His stance for life used to be a loving one.

Prayers up for Massachusetts and the whole country as well.

[Luke21]

I wish it were true. Feminism is hateful poison. Political correctness is the state religion.

But you are correct. Ideology had nothing to do with this vote. We believed Reagan was elected because of ideology, and went comfortably to sleep in the eighties. The people hadn’t joined the Moral Majority. They were afraid of economic calamity and angry at the Iran Hostage Crisis.

This was not a social issue election. Brown is half a liberal anyway. But right now our side benefits from not being “them.”

[pabianice]

I have had two female bosses. Both were hateful, vengeful trolls who destroyed their departments and sent male subordinates into mental health care. One killed himself. Several others quit rather than be tortured by the female boss. Another was institutionalized.

[DarthVader]

I have had three female bosses who have been some of the best people I have ever worked for and have helped my career enormously as they recognized my potential. They are not feminists but traditional, married conservatives. They all told me that they would come work for me in a heartbeat. Coakley is a witch who has abused her office and deserves disbarment, jail time or both.

[victim soul]

If you don’t think her stand on abortion uber alles didn’t matter, then why did Planned Parenthood dump $200,000 and Emily’s List dump $500,000 in the latter days of her campaign?

Then why did her campaign mail 1000’s of scurrilous flyers on the last weekend before the election?

Read

This Ad Is Criminal - Kathryn Jean Lopez - The Corner on National Review Online

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NzQxYTZhMThlYWFlNDk2YTA1MTRkMmM4YmZlZGIwMTc=

Mrs.Schafly is indeed correct when she writes:

” Coakley insulted people with religious values by declaring that those who oppose abortion probably shouldn’t work in emergency rooms because an occasional patient might demand an immediate abortion. Feminists refuse to allow respect for a right of conscience because that might get in the way of their ideology that abortion is women’s premier right. “

[the invisib1e hand]

The Real Loser In The Massachusetts Election

The people who think Scott Brown is "conservative?"

[victim soul]

http://article.nationalreview.com/420736/rape-she-cried/kathryn-jean-lopez