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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

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