Baseball Fans Should Be Against Coakley
Saturday, January 16th, 2010aka How to Run a Horrible Campaign
Massachusetts is a blue state. Edward Kennedy has held a seat in the US Senate since 1962. This seat was held by his brother John prior to being elected president. Ben Smith held the seat for two years between the Kennedy brothers. The second Senate seat from Massachusetts has been Democratically held since Paul Tsongas won in 1979. He was preceded by John Kerry. All ran for POTUS, interestingly.
Martha Coakley is the Attorney General of Massachusetts. She’s a Democrat trying to fill the Senate seat vacated by Edward Kennedy who died last year. This should be a slam dunk win for her. Until recently, it was.
Why has the Brown v. Coakley race become so close?
She has had an embattled tenure as AG. She refuses to investigate the Mayor of Boston. She did not recommend to commute the sentence of a man thought to be innocent by most, and she did not reprimand District Attorneys who falsely testified about medical marijuana.
Then came her attack ad on her opponent. In it, she misspelt Massachusetts. Consider this her scanner moment.
The other day Candidate Coakley stated during a debate with her opponent that there were no terrorists in Afghanistan.
Last evening Coakley was interviewed on a Boston radio station and stated that Curt Schilling, who has endorsed her opponent, was a Yankees fan.
For those who don’t know, Schilling is the pitcher who pitched famously for the Boston (Massachusetts) Red Sox in 2004 (remember the bloody sock?), who won the World Series for the first time since 1918 when Babe Ruth played for them.
Coakley is clearly flawed. So much so that President Obama is flying at taxpayer expense tomorrow to campaign for her. He has already released his endorsement on the ‘Net.
So, who’s her opponent? At this point, with the election just a few days away, it doesn’t much matter. Unfortunately, for those in Massachusetts, this election has escalated to a referendum on President Obama. It is no longer an election for representation of citizens. Barney Frank, also from Massachusetts, has even stated that is Coakley loses the race, Obama’s helathcare bill is sunk.
it’ll kill the health bill
This is how politics are fought these days. Representing constituencies is no longer the goal; rather, building national power within the federal government is the aim. Folks have conveniently forgotten that the federal government exists and has power solely because the states (and Commonwealths) ceded power in some specific areas. Healthcare wasn’t one of them.
I look forward to an ass-kicking a homerun on Tuesday to send a clear message (because folks have already forgotten the gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia) that we are not going to accept the assault upon our rights that the Obama Administration is waging against the Constitution.
