No matter what President Obama does or says tomorrow when he’s in the Bay State, he won’t be able to help his party’s nominee for the U.S. Senate once held by Daniel Webster and Charles Sumner win on Tuesday, January 19, 2010. Oh, she might be able to hold the seat for her party, but she lost the chance to vindicate its ideas when she began her relentless negative campaign, saturating the air waves with mean-spirited and dishonest ads smearing her Republican opponent.
While Martha Coakley has attacked Scott Brown’s position on a number of issues, she has yet (as far as I can tell from my sources in the Bay State the blog/news reports I have read) to run TV ads making the positive case on why the various Democratic initiatives in Congress she supports will be good for the Bay State. In short, she’s not running on issues, but on her partisan affiliation and that party’s antipathy to their political adversaries.
Instead of running on the Obama agenda, she’s running against a president who left office almost a year ago. She and her special interest allies are tarring her opponent as an extremist while obsessing about their ties to a former Governor of a state clear across the country who hasn’t spoken out about this race or ever, as far a I know, even set foot in the Bay State.
I wonder if the Democrats are giving us a little taste of their 2010 strategy. A far cry from the postpartisan kind of politics their party’s standard bearer promised in the most recent presidential campaign.
Democrats may well hold this seat, but they have lost the battle of ideas. And in their own backyard.
I’m from the Bay State and Coakley is running adds that are so out of touch with what normal people are thinking that it’s almost ludicrous. Example: She runs an add with Brown’s picture in front of the World Trade Center in an effort to make him look like an evil capitalist. I guess somebody told her that taking the viewpoint of the Islamic terrorists wasn’t a real good idea and she pulled it. Of course we have the add where they spelled Massachusetts wrong. Then she tries to accuse the father of two daughters of not helping rape victims. Then there’s another one where she tries to insinuate that he’s part of the Republican political machine and shows pictures of Carl Rove, Bush, Cheney, and so on while he’s driving around the state in an old pickup truck and she’s jetsetting off to Washington to hobknob with lobbyists. There’s a few more but THIS IS GREAT STUFF! This is what happens when you surround yourself with like-minded people and are never questioned. I’m waiting for her to come out wearing love beads, a head band, bell bottoms, and start screaming about the Military Industrial Complex, refer to police officers as “pigs”, and make a pledge to her constituents never to work for the “MAN.”
The Dems have run on Bush as villain. They have run on “hopenchange.” They have run on “better and smarter.” They have run on plenty more at no additional cost. They have run on taking from the rich and giving to the poor.
And now they have the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives and they are running on empty. Empty promises of no new taxes on the middle class. Empty promises reformed, smarter, better universal heath care that will cost more, be rationed, and endlessly fiddled by government bureaucrats who can’t be trusted to say what they mean and mean what they say. Empty promises of transparency. An empty treasury that can not be refilled if all the liquid assets in the private sector were to be confiscated. Empty speeches that float on the vapor and are blown away by the slightest breeze. Running on empty and they try to convince us they are getting a million miles to the gallon.
I have said that Tony V. was a really bad example of Affirmative Action gone wrong in Los Angeles. I will now repeat that Barack Obama has been a really bad example of Affirmative Action in Washington, D.C. Instead of calling a wealth of experience, he is calling on the experience of us giving him all our wealth!!! His Handlers havent been able to generate prosperity for the people.
Controlling all the levers of power is giving Democrats something never get at any other time … accountability.
They can control both houses of congress, writing all the laws, and holding all the purse strings; they can write a budget that triples the deficit, and even HOLD it until Obama gets elected so that Bush cannot veto it; they can block over 25 attempts to reform Fannie and Freddie, with dire warnings from leading economists that if they continue to block reform, we will have exactly the kind of crisis that we had, and STILL the media covers for them and tells America everything is Bush’s fault.
If Scott Brown gets elected, and Democrats command only a 59 seat majority in the Senate, the House of Representatives and the White House — the media will assure they lose what little accountability they now have. Everything will once again be Republicans fault.
AE I think you re right but what’s the alternative. Let them govern unchallenged for the next year and install can n tax, Obamacare, unfettered immigration and tax increases. It would not only blow up the deficiet but the nation as well.
Oh, I dont mean that there is any alternative. Republicans must win power and block their agenda. I’m just pointing out that the ONLY time Democrats ever face accountability is when they control EVERYTHING. Once power is shared, even if Democrats control two out of three of the levers of power, everything that goes wrong becomes Republicans fault.
But such is life for the only adults in politics.
Has Coakley burned her bra on Harvard Yard yet????