Posted on 06/04/2014 7:25:35 AM PDT by raccoonradio
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Coakley Conundrum
Howie Carr, Boston Herald 6/8/14
You’re Marsha Coakley, and you just want this next week to be over. You want to limp out of Worcester next Saturday after taking your lumps at the state Democratic convention so you can get on with the rest of the campaign.
You’re Marsha Coakley and the only way things could get worse in Worcester next weekend is if you dialed Uber for a car and on your smartphone Crash Murray’s face popped up, telling you he’s 10 miles from the DCU Center and he’ll be there to pick you up in less than a minute.
You can’t believe that Steve Grossman is 50 points behind you in the polls, and he’s telling you your campaign has some real soul-searching to do?
This guy has been running for governor nonstop for 12 years, since he and another fresh face named Warren “California Chrome” Tolman appeared on the scene to lose to that tattooed titan, Shannon O’Brien?
You’re Marsha Coakley, and after all these years in politics, you’re still a rotten campaigner. You can talk to the people, but not with them. Because, at bottom, you’re not a pol, you’re a cop. Which is why you don’t see anything wrong with your state police using their Official Business placards to park in fire lanes for your campaign fundraisers. That’s what cops do.
You’re Marsha Coakley, and has Grossman booked every single restaurant in downtown Worcester next Friday night for the care and feeding of his delegates?
This isn’t going to be one of those conventions that brings a lot of new moonbats into the party, like in 2006, when the trust-funded delegates were all agog over gay marriage and working off their white guilt by voting for Deval.
It’s also not 2012, when all the old ladies in their buns and granny glasses turned out with their knitting on a jihad to do to Scott Brown what that Republican Senate candidate in Iowa says she used to do to hogs down on her farm.
No, this convention is Hacks Only Need Apply. Moonbat hacks, conservative hacks (all six of them), hacks’ hacks. If you invite 100 of these convention delegates to a party, you have to order food for 200, so they can steal something to take home. Who’s going to this convention next weekend? Check out the list of the 34 unindicted co-conspirators at the Probation Department trial and you’ll have a pretty good idea, after you subtract that large percentage that will be in Boston for the Gay Pride Parade.
Will there be a moment of silence at the convention for Democracy’s fallen stalwarts — Mike McLaughlin, Carlos Henriquez, John Fresolo?
You’re Marsha Coakley, and where did this guy Don Berwick come from? Berwick knows this year’s magic moonbat phrase: single payer. That will make all the Obamacare fiascoes go away. Just bleed the patient a little more and everything will be fine. Worked so well for George Washington.
You thought Juliette Kayyem might be a contender, but she too seems fixated on two words, except they’re two words that drive your average NPR-listening moonbat crazy: homeland security.
For most of the delegates, the only policy question that matters is where they can get themselves and their drug-addict relatives hack jobs now that the Probation Department has to at least pretend to be on the level for a year or two? (Answer: the Mass. Convention Center Authority, with Jim Rooney in the role of John O’Brien.)
You’re Marsha Coakley, and this convention is Steve Grossman’s reward for all these years of drooling on everybody’s shoes as the Uriah Heep of the state party. Let him win on the second ballot, cue the balloons and the confetti, strike up the band and let him get all the video he needs for his TV spots. The only problem is, then he begins his anti-Marsha media blitz, financed by that super PAC that’s run by his “neighbors” like the old Obama bundler, I mean ambassador.
You’re Marsha Coakley, and there’s only one consolation this week. Charlie Baker is almost as bad a candidate as you are.
(And here is Howie's Sat. column
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2014/06/carr_theres_no_diversity_of_ideas
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Yesterday’s
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2014/06/carr_grossman_to_lead_2014_moonbat_parade
http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/howie_carr/2014/06/carr_put_microscope_on_mcca_next
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She married an Army Officer, real nice guy when I met him, and bred.
One of the things that always pissed me off about Southie is the rat pols silence about their boys serving, playing kissey face in public and stabbing them in the back in the back room.
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Scott Brown Woos Mitt Romney Now
by Howie Carr, Boston Herald 6/25/14
What a difference two years make.
In 2012, Scott Brown was avoiding Mitt Romney like the plague as he tried to get reelected to the U.S. Senate amidst a tidal wave of Wall Street bucks and a million no-info Obamaphone-wielding voters washing over him to cast a ballot for the fake Indian.
The last thing Scott Brown wanted to do in 2012 was tie himself to a perceived loser like Mitt.
But that was then, and this is now. That was Massachusetts, and this is New Hampshire. Mitt Romney is riding high on a surge of buyers’ remorse, and it’s Scott Brown who’s desperately trying to nationalize his race against Jeanne Shaheen.
This time it’s Brown, not the fake Indian, who’s the perceived carpetbagger, even if he was born in Kittery and Jeanne Shaheen was hatched somewhere in the Central Time Zone.
Not that Mitt and Scott were ever enemies. It was Mitt who introduced Brown to the crowd that wonderful night in January 2010 when he took “the people’s seat” from Marsha Coakley.
It was just tactical for Brown to steer clear of Mitt in 2012. But now, unbelievably, Brown is as unpopular in New Hampshire as Barack Obama, with the same 52 percent unfavorable rating.
Meanwhile, Mitt towers above the other potential 2016 GOP presidential contenders in the first primary state, even as he repeatedly declares his non-interest.
Now Mitt, the summer resident, will endorse his fellow summer resident, and they’ll march together in the Wolfeboro Independence Day parade. Is it a game changer? It wouldn’t seem to be, but that’s what Brown needs.
He’s 10-13 points down to Shaheen, depending on the poll. The Tea Party is wary of him, to put it mildly. Amazing, considering that Shaheen was one of the eight Democrat senators to sign the March 2012 letter urging the IRS to begin its partisan witch hunt against the Tea Party “for the purpose of suppressing the First Amendment speech rights of certain nonprofit organizations,” as the Center for Competitive Politics put it in its complaint to the Senate Ethics Committee.
Last night I asked my listeners in New Hampshire how they felt about Brown. Here are some of the responses:
“Love Mitt. Understand (Brown) had to run left in Mass. Will get my vote.”
“Scott’s out for Scott.” (And Jeanne is out for … who?)
It’s a tough crowd. For a lot of taxpayers, pragmatism has become a dirty word.
The good news is, Mitt has already seen this movie, back in 2012. The question is, can he help Scott Brown write a different ending in the four months and nine days they have left?
Nationwide Howie? Via Tom Taylor On Radio:
>>Boston-based talk host Howie Carr signs with Tony Garcia’s new Global Media Services. Garcia calls him “an icon and legend in New England, and I look forward to partnering with him to bring his unique views on politics, pop culture and society to the entire nation.” Howie’s current affiliate lineup is 15 stations. Carr is literally a survivor – notorious gangster Whitey Bulger once put out a contract on him, in a story covered by CBS-TV’s “60 Minutes.” Carr was inducted into the Chicago-based National Radio Hall of Fame in 2008 and he’s won a National Magazine Award (he writes a column for the Boston Herald). Carr’s heard in Boston from 3-7pm on Entercom’s talk WRKO (680), which is the station that fought so hard to keep him from jumping to Greater Media. Before moving to Denver to work with RegionalHelpWanted.com, Garcia led the Charlotte-based syndication of Bob & Sheri.
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Will start a July thread soon or just continue on this one. Howie says:
>>Filling in for @marklevinshow tomorrow night! Hear me on XM Patriot ch. 125 6-9 or on WRKO 7-10.
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