Posted on 01/18/2010 8:47:41 AM PST by suspects
No matter what happens at the ballot box tomorrow, one thing is certain: Martha Coakley is a loser.
Even if Bill Clinton and Barack Obama can somehow rescue her candidacy, Coakley will never recover from the self-inflicted damage of the worst political campaign in recent history.
Win or lose, she will forever be Martha the Blind - the woman who couldn’t see terrorists in Afghanistan, or a staffer giving a beatdown to a reporter right before her eyes. She’s Sen. Spellcheck, forced to pull one ad because her campaign misspelled Massachusetts, then another because it superimposed Scott Brown’s image in front of the World Trade Center.
Given the incompetence of her campaign, she was lucky it was a pre-9/11 photo of the towers.
In the Democratic primary, Coakley ran on the one thing she couldn’t get wrong: being a woman. It’s been downhill ever since.
Right after losing the primary, Rep. Michael Capuano was asked what he learned on the campaign trail. “You’re screwed,” he told his Democratic colleagues. Everyone wondered what he meant. Now we know.
While Scott Brown was wearing out a set of truck tires on retail politics, Coakley sniffed at the idea of “standing outside Fenway Park [map], in the cold, shaking hands.” She certainly didn’t waste time explaining her positions on health care or national security to the voters, in part because when she tried, it became painfully clear she didn’t understand them herself.
Coakley’s arrogant assumption of victory was so strong that midway through the brief campaign season, she simply disappeared off the campaign trail for days.
When independent voters and moderate Democrats were wondering if Coakley was out of touch, she answered by jetting off to Washington for a big-dollar lobbyist fundraiser. Why didn’t she just...
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"This is the kind of political stupidity it takes for a Democrat to lose a Senate race in Massachusetts. You can’t just run a weak campaign, or commit a gaffe or two. You’ve got to run an absolute disaster of a campaign to lose to a Republican here."
"And that’s what Coakley delivered. It wasn’t the Hindenburg or the Titanic. It was the Hindenburg crashing into the Titanic."
I saw an editor from Boston Herald this morning. You should have seen her face when she spoke of Coakley, especially the rape victims charges. She pretty much said Coakley was an idiot.
A very interesting insight.
What we are seeing here is the unmitigated arrogance of the elitists and their sense of entitlement that comes with being a member of what liberals like to call the “educated” class and what I like to call the “Know nothing” class.
Coakley believed that she was entitled to that seat because she had been a good little Democratic soldier. We all see what happens when anyone feels they are entitled to something just because of who they are and not what they have done.
Obama has been told that he is special and entitled to be President, not because of what he has accomplished but because he was handpicked because of his race and his marxist ideology.
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