Booman blames the woman. Quelle surprise. The counter-narrative:
Coakley was doing fine until the national Dems:
1. Made her throw the base under the bus by reversing her pro-woman stance on abortion in the Dem's health insurance reform bills, and then:
2. Made the election into a referendum on a bill that not only makes failure to buy junk insurance a federal crime, but is worse than the system MA already has.
Coakley didn't help her own cause at her Versailles
fundraiser with Big Pharma lobbyists, either.
Maybe if Coakley had run as the attorney general who forced Golden Sacks to give $60 million back to the taxpayers she would have won. But she didn't run that campaign, even if she thought of doing it, and the national Dems would probably think that was populist, like that's a bad thing.
Debacle ponies for everyone!
NOTE How in the name of sweet suffering Jeebus could any party -- even, say, the Communist Party during the Breshnev era -- lose to a Cosmo pinup boy?
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She ran a fine campaign, though
agreed on all your points. On her behalf it's nearly impossible to run against the standard bearer of your own Party with any credibility. But this election was all about Obama and the Democratic leadership, health care, bailouts, and the recession the Obama folks inexpilicably allowed themselves to be shackled with through their piss poor handling of the bank failures, and the stimulus spending. Obama has screwed up so big and so early it's hard to comprehend. The only thing Obama seems able to sell is himself. Wow. Now the Obama people did tell me Obama had the potential to rewrite the electoral map for years to some, but somehow I don't think this is what they had in mind.
The liberty of democracy is not safe if people tolerate growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism.---FDR
Good to see you, wish it were
under better circumstances. Yeah, Coakley was in an impossible situation, as such, this was a slow motion train wreck.
If there's any good news, it's now clear that no D who supports BHO's crony capitalism is safe. Let's see how many figure it out for the primaries and general.
Haw
Pacific John, I was just going to link to your quote.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Bwahahaha!
Learn from this? I don't think so. This weak crop of Democrats are going to learn that they need to lean more to the Right from this. Unbe-freaking-leavable. Oh, and that Coakley was a terrible candidate. of course.
The liberty of democracy is not safe if people tolerate growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism.---FDR
Forget BooMan, read Yves
in her funny and insightful reaction to Politico's take she sums up:
We will push and push and push until some larger force makes us stop.
The Obama presidency can't fail. It can only be failed.
"She was a complacent candidate and it cost Obama and the Democrats dearly."
I think
people know better.
Throw progressive Martha under the bus
because really, that's where actual progressives actually belong.
And before you do that, be sure to cast these oddly effective Psychic Scream spells:
got in race too early
got in race too late
too complacent
too ambitious
not ambitious enough
too Obama
not Obama enough
flip-flop Stupak
too hot
too cold
too entitled
not entitled enough
Lucky the mainstream media never focused on her actual record. Then she'd really be in trouble. Oh wait.
Reporter to Mahatma Gandhi: What do you think of Western Civilization?
Gandhi to reporter: I think it would be a good idea.
Is flip-flop Stupak not part of her record?
Obviously it carried more weight for some than for others, but she traded her idealistic position to play ball with the big boys, like a deal to master the guitar at the crossroads.
It doesn't wipe out her worth or her record, but it made her untrustworthy to those of us who see the Dems as a deadly racket and a roach motel for progressive energies.
Lambert
That is TOO funny. We better laugh now because it's going to get really bad.
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