Dare we believe…
…in this sort of hope and change?
The only poll that counts, of course, is the one on election day. But this is mighty sweet right now.
[ADDENDUM: You can’t make this stuff up (hat tip: commenter “turfmann”). But apparently, Martha Coakley can.
She may just be the Worst. Candidate. Ever. Hope the electorate is paying enough attention to find that out before next Tuesday.]
[ADDENDUM II: Someone posted this quote from Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” on the comments to the poll report:
There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.]
[ADDEDDUM IV: Now here’s a ringing endorsement for Coakley. With support like this, it’s no wonder she’s lost her momentum:
Let’s get this out of the way. You might not want to vote for Martha Coakley. You might think she deserves what’s she’s getting after an absentee, self-satisfied campaign (why should I bail her out?). You likely want to send a message to everyone from the attorney general all the way to every Democratic official in Washington, DC…
You got every reason to be pissed, but it needs to be clear: not voting for Coakley is the same as voting for Brown. And voting for Brown is a very, very bad thing…
Yes it sucks. Yes you have to vote Coakley.]
[ADDENDUM V: “You gotta have heart.” Not.]
Dear Lord.
Wow!! Just saw it, GREAT!!!! May the trend continue.
It’s going to pass the Martha of Error!
Sorry about that.
Hot Air, linked via instapundit, reports that the Brown campaign raised $1 million every day this week.
Coakley also negged Fenway Park and shaking hands with lowly voters.
I used to live two blocks from Fenway. You don’t diss the park and you don’t diss voters.
Coakley is the worst. She’s this year’s Caroline Kennedy, and all the Obama’s horses and all the Obama’s men aren’t going to put her together again.
But of the 500 voters surveyed, only 20 percent said the Kennedy family nod made them more likely to vote for Coakley, and 27 percent said the endorsement made them less likely to support her.
Yes, I think the Kennedy magic has reached its expiry date too.
Immediately losing the “Ted Kennedy Memorial Senate Seat” to a Republican will put a stake through the Kennedy/Camelot vampire heart.
About time.
Let’s hope. For some perspective on the disappearance of the Kennedy magic : the youngest voters for JFK turned 70 last year.
I will hold my breath and say nothing to my sister-in-law, a Mass native who wrote the book on Yellow Dog Democrats, until after the election. If at all. As she no longer lives in Mass, she can vote for Coakley only in spirit, which at least puts us on an even keel.
Coakley seems to put her foot in her mouth every time she talks. Maybe that is why she tried to avoid public speaking. She knows she’ll say something stupid.
What a statement Brown’s election would be.
A definitive one, IMO. (FWIW) 😳
So Coakley not campaigning earlier was a necessity rather than presumption. Think of what she would have revealed by now if she had been talking to the great unwashed back over Christmas?
Caught on camera
A longtime U.N. weapons inspector who blamed a 2001 sex-sting arrest on his criticism of the Iraq war has again been charged in an online child-sex case, and this time he was caught on camera.
As a former DC lobbyist and manager of a congressional election campaign, please let me remind everyone that MONEY is the fuel for a winning last week. Even if you gave before, even if it looks as though Brown has plenty, check under the couch cushions and throw a little more into the pot.
Cash pays for get-out-the-vote calls and drivers, it puts up last minute ads and it feeds the dedicated volunteers who have their feet on the ground or their fingers on the phones 18 hours a day now.
Oh, and pray for Obama to make the trek to Boston. He’ll whip socialism-hating Bay Staters into an election day frenzy and drive Brown right into the Senate.
You’ll never get a better show for your money. Make more popcorn!
While it certainly seems to be the case that Coakley has been playing the part of the Washington Generals to Brown’s Harlem Globetrotters with her spectacular gaffes and woefully inept campaign plan, it should not go without mention that Brown has taken a lesson from another famous Massachusetts politician, Tip O’Neil, ‘All politics is local’.
Brown has been working tirelessly throughout this entire campaign. He is omnipresent on talk radio, he is constantly shaking hands, constantly rallying. And not in a bad way, either. His efforts come off as entirely genuine; he is connecting strongly with the electorate. I think, or have thought, that this election was his for a long time – long before the polls started breaking for him. He is a Republican, true, but he has found a way to get himself elected to the Massachusetts House and Senate repeatedly in a district that is overwhelmingly Democrat; he knows how to formulate a message that is conservative and sell it to liberals.
And it has been a lot of fun to watch.
Don’t worry, we’ll all be at the polls for Scott on Tuesday at 07:00 sharp.
More links supporting the Boston Herald poll numbers, which appear to be getting out of date.
http://jammiewearingfool.blogspot.com/2010/01/rats-flee-sinking-ship-dems-comparing.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwoTxa-M4NM
Sir John Gielgud reciting that Shakespeare quote in a Union Bank of Switzerland commercial. See the related videos for other great quotes.
Martha knows she doesn’t have to campaign. It’s all about the counting. And who does the counting? Democrat party loyalists.
In another couple of decades Americans will lose trust entirely in elections, and clamor for a man on horseback. If we’re very lucky it’ll be some dutiful West Point grad, but I expect instead we’ll get the fascist we deserve. My only consolation will be laughing at the liberals who called Bush a fascist as we wait in line to be shot.
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Today’s WSJ contains this Dorothy Rabinowitz column
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575003341640657862.html
on the Amirault case and Ms. Coakley’s loathsome role in this outrage.
As the eternal pessimist I must say even a Massachusett(e)s Miracle may not stop Obamacare if the Dums carry out their threat to either rush the bill through or hold up Brown’s confirmation. Still, Brown’s noble effort deserves some Karmic reward and congratulations.
If Brown wins, I gotta admit it will reaffirm my faith in a higher power….
I can sort of relate to, and sympathize with, the Blue Mass reluctant and painful endorsement: “Coakley sucks, but hold your nose and vote for her anyway because not voting for her is a vote for Brown.”
Legions of us on the other side of the spectrum were told the same thing about the unfortunate but critical “need” cast our vote for John McCain.
It is terrible when there is nobody on the ballet you want to vote for.
Immediately losing the “Ted Kennedy Memorial Senate Seat” to a Republican will put a stake through the Kennedy/Camelot vampire heart.
I’ll find a hammer, y’all bring a stake. Or several.
“Yes, you have to vote for Coakley.”
I wonder if they’ll become so upset by Election Day that they’ll actually add the logical “…or we’ll KILL you” to that sentence.
The comments section over at Blue Mass Group was kinda fun. If you don’t visit places like that from time to time, you can begin to suspect that the only people who believe that nonsense are lefty trolls on right-wing sites.
Nope, they’re real. All the exaggerations of conservative opinions are fully in play over there. These folks really believe it.
If you don’t visit places like that from time to time, you can begin to suspect that the only people who believe that nonsense are lefty trolls on right-wing sites.
same with rad femnarzi’s, and Raza type groups…
we like to think that they dont have the representation they actually do, or that its waning. but as i have alluded to before, for something that is dead and waning we sure are jumping as if they were the monster in a horror movie that cant die.
remember communism and socialism is dead and disproved…
so why arent we talking about glow in the dark jellow and more benign things?
personally if that is dead, i want to be dead that way… sure beats the concept of dead is dead, dont it?
as a side bar…
comment at
neoneocon.com/2010/01/13/haiti-devastated-by-earthquake-and-more/#comment-140971
wait..
anyone want to time how long before someone says that it was caused by AGW and that the US owes them social justice funds?
blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/timblair/index.php/dailytelegraph/comments/pact_with_gaia/
Actor Danny Glover believes that the Haitian earthquake was caused by climate change and global warming:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2ft5JkNWJA&feature=player_embedded
Says Glover: “When we see what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen, this is the response, this is what happens, you know what I’m sayin’?” His obscene opinion would be bigger news if Glover had — in the manner of others — idiotically blamed a less-fashionable deity.
[i think he is alluding to us being smoted by gaia for doing what we naturally do, since technically we are not extra-universal, and so are created by gaia to be what gaia wanted us to be!!!! -artfldgr]
and we all “share the same IQ” department:
Angry Haitians set up roadblocks with corpses in Port-au-Prince to protest at the delay in emergency aid reaching them after a devastating earthquake, an eyewitness said.
So, in these people’s minds, it makes sense to protest that you aren’t getting aid fast enough… by blocking the people from getting aid to you…. with corpses! MB
Although Brown’s 4-point lead over Democrat Martha Coakley is within the Suffolk University/7News survey’s margin of error, the underdog’s position at the top of the results stunned even pollster David Paleologos.
“It’s a Brown-out,” said Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center. “It’s a massive change in the political landscape.”
The poll shows Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, besting Coakley, the state’s attorney general, by 50 percent to 46 percent, the first major survey to show Brown in the lead.
A PajamasMedia/CrossTarget Poll has Brown up by 15%!!!!!
Here for details:
http://pajamasmedia.com/rogerlsimon/
Pittman: Right, if you are a Catholic, and believe what the Pope teaches that any form of birth control is a sin. ah you don’t want to do that.
Coakley: No we have a seperation of church and state Ken, lets be clear.
Pittman: In the emergency room you still have your religious freedom.
Coakley: (……uh, eh…um..) The law says that people are allowed to have that. You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.
Legions of us on the other side of the spectrum were told the same thing about the unfortunate but critical “need” cast our vote for John McCain.
Even the casual blog reader must come across these attempted justifications for the assistance by some on the Right in elevating Obama to the Whitehouse and the Democrats to a huge majority in Congress. They alternate between claiming Obama wants to subvert American democracy and congratulating themselves for their betrayal in the last election and never seem to realize the inherent contradiction. I’ve resolved to challenge these little salutes to silliness whenever I stumble across them.
If McCain and the Republicans had won over Obama and the Democrats then Brown probably wouldn’t be needed today. Yes, it WAS a “critical need,” and yes, the commentor and “legions” like him did a very stupid thing. Let’s all hope and pray they DON’T do it again the next time around.
Who is this “they” are your referring to?
I was a good little soldier and held my nose until it hurt, and voted for McLame.
And yes Brown and people like him would indeed still be needed today.
What planet are YOU from?
“I’ve resolved to challenge these little salutes to silliness whenever I stumble across them.”
And I’ve resolved to respond to holier than thou, sanctimonious douchebags.
Who is this “they” are your referring to? I was a good little soldier and held my nose until it hurt, and voted for McLame. And yes Brown and people like him would indeed still be needed today. What planet are YOU from?
Here’s the comment in full:
I can sort of relate to, and sympathize with, the Blue Mass reluctant and painful endorsement: “Coakley sucks, but hold your nose and vote for her anyway because not voting for her is a vote for Brown.”
Legions of us on the other side of the spectrum were told the same thing about the unfortunate but critical “need” cast our vote for John McCain.
It is terrible when there is nobody on the ballet you want to vote for.
The commentor compares reluctantly voting for Coakley to reluctantly voting for McCain — as if there were no difference between liberal-leaning voters reluctantly voting for Coakley and certain disappointed conservative-leaning voters reluctantly voting for McCain. Their lack of enthusiasm helped sink the McCain/Palin boat. Many of them did not hold their nose — indeed, many of them(“legions”) stayed home on voting day. And of course, it should be pointed out that elections are never won with reluctance.
There were disappointed Hillary supporters on the other side but after an initial show of disappointment they campaigned vigorously for Obama, flooded the polls on voting day and enthusiastically pulled the lever for the Democrat’s choice. I cannot help wondering what might have happened if the commentor and his “legions” had done the same.
The primaries are designed to pick one candidate from among many. No matter who wins the primaries there are always disappointed supporters of candidates who were not nominated. But once the primaries are over and the nominee picked it is expected that voters on all sides will get behind the candidates.
But the commentor didn’t do that — no, the commentor held his nose and look at the result: A Progressive(or worse) in the Whitehouse, a Progressive-controlled Congress and a nation well on its way to a weak European-style economy and foreign policy – with all our hopes for ditching an abomination of a national healthcare bill hanging on a special election in Massachusetts.
As on the commentor’s planet, on my planet our preferred candidate also did not win the primaries but we quickly swallowed our disappointment, gave money to the GOP and the McCain/Palin ticket, enthusiastically campaigned among our friends and family for the GOP ticket and marched to the polls, our McCain/Palin buttons proudly displayed. Would that some others could have done the same.
I worry that the same lack of judgement will prevail among the commentor’s “legions” in the next Presidential election. The fact that McCain-haters among the Right still, even at this late date, try to lamely justify their behavior during the last election should give all of us cause for misgivings.
Y’know, if some blogger told ME, “Yes it sucks but you have to vote for XYZ”, I might just say in my heart-of-hearts, “Oh, ya THINK so? What if *I* don’t wanna, butthead?” Then I’d go vote for whoever-I-damn-well pleased.
If the Republican Party doesn’t work to abolish open primaries, the same thing will happen again next time.