Longtime talk host and Radio Hall of Famer Howie Carr writes for the Boston Herald and has a half dozen or so bestselling books about Whitey Bulger and other crime figures. He occasionally fills in for Mark Levin and Dennis Miller and his regular features include Ann Coulter, Max Robins, Police Blotter Friday, and The Chump Line.
Martha Coakley forgets her own memory loss
by Howie Carr on November 3, 2014
The polls open in 24 hours and Marsha Coakley and her coatholders are wringing their hands about Charlie Baker’s alleged memory lapses.
You gotta be kidding. I love the smell of flop sweat in the morning. This from a woman who less than two weeks ago said, on live statewide TV: “We are exploring ways to do a more graduated income tax.”
And then, a few days later, in another primetime debate, she claimed with a straight face (and absolutely vacant eyes), “I have not talked about raising taxes. I don’t think we have to do it.”
At which point, her perplexed opponent Charlie Baker pointed out that only a few days earlier, “You practically came out in support of a graduated income tax.”
“Charlie, that’s totally inaccurate,” she misspoke. “I absolutely deny that happened.”
There’s an old joke that if you want to hide something real good, just stick it in one of Marsha Coakley’s law books.
After all, this is the woman who once declared, “Technically, it is not illegal to be illegal in Massachusetts.”
Like a rooftop weathervane spinning in a hurricane, she was against drivers’ licenses for illegal aliens before she was for drivers’ licenses for illegal aliens. Most recently when asked “yes or no” about the wildly unpopular proposal, she replied, “I don’t know yet.”
When Republicans try to get away with such nonsense, it’s called a flip-flop. Marsha, though, is protected by the gender gendarmes of the PC Posse. She’s merely growing, evolving, pivoting on this and all other issues, depending on the polls.
In their decision last June allowing the casino referendum question onto the ballot, the SJC unanimously ruled against Marsha. She had made the logic-defying argument that to allow the people to vote on the issue would violate the “property rights” of casino interests who had applied for a license, which rights they would forfeit once the approvals had been granted or rejected. Got that?
The unanimous verdict of the SJC, as written by now-Chief Justice Ralph Gants: “We reject this distinction and this departure from common sense.”
Even in Massachusetts, the fact that this woman has ever been elected to anything is in itself a “departure from common sense.”
Consider yet another of this campaign’s forums. She flatly told Charlie Baker to his face that she had not been attorney general in 2008. But she was. And now this incipient amnesiac is in high dudgeon over the fact that Baker apparently mixed up some details about a fisherman in New Bedford.
Marsha’s 11th-hour desperation is like the old law-school tale about how an attorney who has the law on his side pounds the law. If the lawyer has the facts on his side he pounds the facts, and if he has neither he pounds the table.
Behind in the polls, Marsha is way beyond pounding the table. She’s stamping her little feet and throwing a hissy fit and holding her breath until she turns blue. Little Miss Muffett can’t believe she’s striking out so she’s screaming at the ump that Charlie is throwing spitters.
Oops, bad analogy, baseball. This is a woman who thinks Curt Schilling pitched for the Yankees.
What were we talking about? I forget. Oh yeah, memory loss. Consider her non-prosecution of the state’s endless stream of corrupt House speakers, in this case Sal DiMasi. Greg Sullivan, the former inspector general, a Democrat who held a sign during the September primary for Marcia’s acolyte Maura Healey, says he went to Marsha in 2008. He informed her that her pal Sal was so crooked he needed a corkscrew to get into his trousers in the morning.
To which Sullivan says Marsha in effect replied, “Nothing to see here, son. Move along.”
This was in 2008, the year in which Chokeley cannot even remember being AG. But last week, she authoritatively recalled on live TV the imprisonment of Sal’s accountant, which never happened, as well as the state prosecution of a sleazy lobbyist pal of Sal’s, which ditto.
Despite this string of 2008 memory lapses, she categorically recalls never, ever telling Greg Sullivan to lay off her corrupt longtime crony, who is now doing a stretch in prison in Butner NC, inmate #27371-038. He’ll be in durance vile until Nov. 17, 2018. Wonder who Sal’s rooting for from his prison cell.
Don’t “forget” to vote tomorrow.
Pretty amazing, here we are right at the brink of knowing whether the USA continues or ends. I would say I can’t believe Americans would be stupid enough to allow that to happen, but then again they elected a radical Muslim as President twice. What I’m most concerned about is voter fraud and the Repub-Es doing nothing about it.
Annette Teijeiro in Las Vegas could use some conservative media help.
Annette Teijeiro is within 1% here in Nevada CD1 (Las Vegas)!! After early voting results, it will all come down to how many Repubs come to the polls on Tuesday.
If you want someone who will shake things up in Nevada and Washington, help Annette Teijeiro in Las Vegas. As many know, I wrote Harry Reid’s only biography and know how corrupt he is (more than you can believe). If Dr. Annette gets in, my Harry Reid research finally gets a platform. This may be the best bang for the buck campaign to help in the nation.
I am working on the Annette Teijeiro Congressional campaign in Nevada (Las Vegas) against left wing Dina Titus. Dear Lord, we should be crushed in a heavily Democrat district, but we are less than half a point behind as we finish early voting.
It will all depend on every last Repub and conservative independent showing up at the end to push over the top. This is crunch time, time to raise the dead and go vote.
This would be a jaw dropping win, so if you know anyone in Las Vegas please give them a call, Facebook, email or tweet.
If Dr. Annette gets in we have a fearless advocate against Harry Reid, and Annette is smart as a tack. We received zero PAC money too, so we are beholden to no one. Think Michelle Bachmann on steroids.
Please call, tweet, Facebook, do whatever. People need to know how winnable this is.
http://www.annetteforcongress.com
I was at his book signing Saturday with my parents that are visiting from Florida. He told them they would need to stream him on another channel pretty soon (besides the RKO stream) but they’ll be able to hear his show.
I have them listing to WCRN now anyways :>)