If you can’t stand the cold, stay out of the Bay State
Like Martha Coakley, I spent four winters in Williamstown, Massachusetts. As I recall, it gets pretty darn cold at that time of year in that part of the Bay State. It goes with the territory, you could say.
Now, it would seems to me that someone who wants to represents the Bay State in the United States Senate would, appreciate what her constituents have to endure every winter. But somehow, when it comes to the cold, this Democrat is pretty faint-hearted. Responding to charges that she hasn’t been campaigning aggressively enough, she retorted that she has better things to do than face Massachusetts winters:
Coakley bristles at the suggestion that, with so little time left, in an election with such high stakes, she is being too passive.
“As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?’’ she fires back, in an apparent reference to a [Scott] Brown online video of him doing just that.
Wonder how her constituents, many of whom must spend hours in the cold every week in the winter, doing their jobs, getting to their jobs, shoveling show so they can get to their jobs or just plain working outdoors as some folk do.
It seems that someone who bristles at the notion of campaigning in the cold probably shouldn’t be representing a state were it gets pretty darn cold every winter. And sometimes in the fall and even in the spring.
(H/t Legal Insurrection.)
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It was a very clever comment and bound to win her a lot of votes amongst the football fans…./snark off
Comment by StraightAussie — January 14, 2010 @ 2:40 am - January 14, 2010
Lordy, lordy… my heart will sing if (when) this self-absorbed, mistakenly self-important bee-yatch gets her comeuppance at the polls.
Comment by jana — January 14, 2010 @ 2:57 am - January 14, 2010
More MA campaign tidbits at HotAir.
1) A Coakley associate assaults a reporter: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/13/video-coakley-campaign-shoves-weekly-standard-reporter/
Coakley was a witness. Why did she not, in her capacity as chief law enforcement officer of MA, arrest the aggressor for assault and battery – on the spot?
On the other hand,
2) I learn that Scott Brown was unfortunately dumb enough or politically uneducated enough to have supported RomneyCare: http://hotair.com/archives/2010/01/13/scott-brown-sure-i-supported-romneycare-but/
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — January 14, 2010 @ 2:59 am - January 14, 2010
Why has the Democrat CONGRESSIONAL Campaign Committee donated to Coakley? Are libs that desperate?
OT: In a new poll, only 39% of Americans would vote for Rev. Barack Jones in 2013, only 23% say they definitely would.
http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2010/01/majority_would.php
Comment by ThatGayConservative — January 14, 2010 @ 10:18 am - January 14, 2010
Another OT: NASA caught manipulating climate data.
http://www.JunkScience.com
Comment by ThatGayConservative — January 14, 2010 @ 11:44 am - January 14, 2010
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Pingback by GayPatriot » The Society Column & The Sports Page:On Visuals, Coakley & Clinton Lose to Brown & Giuliani — January 16, 2010 @ 5:40 am - January 16, 2010
re#3: I am still puzzled about RomneyCare. It seems that the people like it because there is no govt takeover per se. At least that is how I am understanding it.
The thing is that if there needs to be something like that then it should be offered at the State level. It is up to each State to have a plan regarding health.
I think that this is why Brown is smart enough to see that Abominable Care is not what the country needs.
I have read a lot of comments and I RomneyCare rarely gets a mention. On the other hand there is a definite anti-feeling towards Abominable Care
Comment by StraightAussie — January 19, 2010 @ 4:55 am - January 19, 2010