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MSNBC radio host, Ed Schultz, states he would cheat in the Massachusetts special election in order to get a Democrat elected:
http://washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercooler/2010/jan/16/ed-schultz-id-cheat-keep-brown-winning/
HowardCohodas
01-18-2010, 09:41
A union hack willing to cheat to get their person elected.
There's a news flash.
Here's another: Dewey wins at Manila. :rolleyes:
I'll wager this will election be decided in the court house vice the ballot box. There's too much at stake to let the people decide this one.
I hope I'm wrong.
I'll wager this will election be decided in the court house vice the ballot box. There's too much at stake to let the people decide this one.
I hope I'm wrong.
Good point. If Brown wins by double digits it might prevent that from happening, if not we might have another Minnesota on our hands.
Team Sergeant
01-18-2010, 11:20
MSNBC radio host, Ed Schultz, states he would cheat in the Massachusetts special election in order to get a Democrat elected:
http://washingtontimes.com/weblogs/watercooler/2010/jan/16/ed-schultz-id-cheat-keep-brown-winning/
That's OK, I'd kill to keep my Constitutional Freedoms.
If the far-left along with the unions keep pushing their "socialist" agenda they just might open a can of
industrial strength "whoop-ass" not seen for 200+ years.
HowardCohodas
01-18-2010, 11:28
That's OK, I'd kill to keep my Constitutional Freedoms.
If the far-left along with the unions keep pushing their "socialist" agenda they just might open a can of
industrial strength "whoop-ass" not seen for 200+ years.
Sign me up. I may be an old fart, but there is still fire in my passions.
dr. mabuse
01-18-2010, 12:26
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greenberetTFS
01-18-2010, 13:25
Sign me up. I may be an old fart, but there is still fire in my passions.
HC,
"I'm with you".:D Ready,willing,but not quite so able.......;)
Big Teddy :munchin
dadof18x'er
01-18-2010, 13:33
Sign me up. I may be an old fart, but there is still fire in my passions.
put my name in the old farts tally, I'm tanned,rested and ready....just got back from the gym!:lifter
Good point. If Brown wins by double digits it might prevent that from happening, if not we might have another Minnesota on our hands.
I'm praying Uncle Teddy will be rolling in his grave Tuesday night. :D
HowardCohodas
01-18-2010, 18:18
I'm praying Uncle Teddy will be rolling in his grave Tuesday night. :D
Hopes Teddy's legacy is "rolling" and a pseudonym of Gypsy... I'm in love. :lifter
Considering the lengths to which the Dems in DC have gone to get the Health Care bill along this far I'd put nothing past that parties leadership.
Voter fraud in Mass would be dealt with a wink and nod from DC....
I'm sure any mention of fraud will be a vast right wing conspiracy not seen since BJ's were considered proper oval office ettiquette.
Hopes Teddy's legacy is "rolling" and a pseudonym of Gypsy... I'm in love. :lifter
:D
This is who the dims want in office... :rolleyes:
http://townhall.com/columnists/JillianBandes/2010/01/18/coakley%E2%80%99s_top_ten
Coakley’s Top Ten
by Jillian Bandes
Here are ten things you should know about Democrat Martha Coakley going into Tuesday’s Massachusetts Senate election.
1. She stated explicitly that pro-life Catholics shouldn’t work in the medical professions; in other words, Catholics have no right to act upon their conscience while performing their jobs. That’s a clear violation of freedom of religion. In Coakley’s words: “You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.”
2. She stated explicitly that she doesn’t believe there are any more terrorists in Afghanistan: “The mission in Afghanistan was to go in because we believed that the Taliban was giving harbor to terrorists… they’re gone. They’re not there any more.”
3. She stated explicitly that obtaining endorsements from Democratic politicos are more important than winning the support from the actual constituents of Massachusetts. Coakley angrily said political endorsements were preferable to “standing outside Fenway Park, in the cold, shaking hands” – precisely what her opponent, Republican Scott Brown, was doing.
4. The same statement revealed that she was unaware of the importance of Fenway Park, and the Boston Red Sox, to the people of Boston, the most important city in the state. Boston is perhaps most well known for the dedication of its fans to both the ballpark and its team.
5. Her campaign aide (an Obama presidential appointee) roughed up a reporter during a campaign event. Coakley claimed to not have seen the incident, despite a photo that was published later on showing that she stared directly at the reporter while he was on the ground. She still refuses to apologize or even condemn the action taken by her staff.
6. While a District Attorney, Coakley pressured an appointed governor to ignore recommendations of a parole board, which had overturned convictions on a mother and daughter on charges of child abuse. They had been convicted along with the mother's son, despite the fact that no evidence of the crimes ever existed, and the only testimony provided was coerced from young children. The parole board not only insisted that the trio was never guilty, but that no crimes had ever been committed in the first place. But Coakley pushed the sentencing of all three, and was more lenient on the mother and daughter, because such crimes are “usually” the result of “a primary male offender."
7. She’s using the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s memory to raise campaign cash, earning over a million dollars by appeals from Kennedy’s widow. Meanwhile, her opponent, Republican Scott Brown, has earned nearly the same amount simply by appealing to the hearts and minds of Republicans in Massachusetts and across the nation.
8. She’s relying on President Obama to campaign for her during the eleventh hour, despite kicking her feet up the other three months of her campaign – apparently because she thought Massachusetts voters would blindly vote for whatever Democrat was thrown in front of their faces.
9. She’s an outspoken advocate of the health reform bill which, in it’s latest iteration, will exclude union members and government workers from taxes on health insurance plans while taxing other classes of Americans; this will further incentivize union membership and funding of Democratic candidates.
10. She will provide the crucial 60th vote for Senate Democrats, allowing them to maintain the Democratic supermajority, and pass health care.
HowardCohodas
01-18-2010, 21:10
Then President Obama mocking Brown and his driving around in a pickup truck. Imagine if it was a Republican President mocking a Democrat who was driving around in a pickup to meet people, trying to win a seat that a Republican had held for decades, good grief, the media would be railing about the rich, elitist Republicans who are completely out of touch with the American people.
If Obama didn't have such a tin ear he would have praised Brown for owning a truck made by the company he bought for us. Especially since GM's strategy is now ... tada ... make trucks.
:D
This is who the dims want in office... :rolleyes:
http://townhall.com/columnists/JillianBandes/2010/01/18/coakley%E2%80%99s_top_ten
Coakley’s Top Ten
by Jillian Bandes
Here are ten things you should know about Democrat Martha Coakley going into Tuesday’s Massachusetts Senate election.
1. She stated explicitly that pro-life Catholics shouldn’t work in the medical professions; in other words, Catholics have no right to act upon their conscience while performing their jobs. That’s a clear violation of freedom of religion. In Coakley’s words: “You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.”
2. She stated explicitly that she doesn’t believe there are any more terrorists in Afghanistan: “The mission in Afghanistan was to go in because we believed that the Taliban was giving harbor to terrorists… they’re gone. They’re not there any more.”
3. She stated explicitly that obtaining endorsements from Democratic politicos are more important than winning the support from the actual constituents of Massachusetts. Coakley angrily said political endorsements were preferable to “standing outside Fenway Park, in the cold, shaking hands” – precisely what her opponent, Republican Scott Brown, was doing.
4. The same statement revealed that she was unaware of the importance of Fenway Park, and the Boston Red Sox, to the people of Boston, the most important city in the state. Boston is perhaps most well known for the dedication of its fans to both the ballpark and its team.
5. Her campaign aide (an Obama presidential appointee) roughed up a reporter during a campaign event. Coakley claimed to not have seen the incident, despite a photo that was published later on showing that she stared directly at the reporter while he was on the ground. She still refuses to apologize or even condemn the action taken by her staff.
6. While a District Attorney, Coakley pressured an appointed governor to ignore recommendations of a parole board, which had overturned convictions on a mother and daughter on charges of child abuse. They had been convicted along with the mother's son, despite the fact that no evidence of the crimes ever existed, and the only testimony provided was coerced from young children. The parole board not only insisted that the trio was never guilty, but that no crimes had ever been committed in the first place. But Coakley pushed the sentencing of all three, and was more lenient on the mother and daughter, because such crimes are “usually” the result of “a primary male offender."
7. She’s using the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s memory to raise campaign cash, earning over a million dollars by appeals from Kennedy’s widow. Meanwhile, her opponent, Republican Scott Brown, has earned nearly the same amount simply by appealing to the hearts and minds of Republicans in Massachusetts and across the nation.
8. She’s relying on President Obama to campaign for her during the eleventh hour, despite kicking her feet up the other three months of her campaign – apparently because she thought Massachusetts voters would blindly vote for whatever Democrat was thrown in front of their faces.
9. She’s an outspoken advocate of the health reform bill which, in it’s latest iteration, will exclude union members and government workers from taxes on health insurance plans while taxing other classes of Americans; this will further incentivize union membership and funding of Democratic candidates.
10. She will provide the crucial 60th vote for Senate Democrats, allowing them to maintain the Democratic supermajority, and pass health care.
Aside from THIS list, I think the "Bomb" that Coakly dropped about Curt Shilling (of the Boston Red Sox's "bloody sock" fame) is a ......... Yankees fan, is going to blow up in HER face.
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sportsprose/2010/01/curt_schilling_blogs_about_bei.html
:munchin
With over 75% of the vote in, it's a 7 point margin in favor of Brown. :lifter
Well done and congrats to Senator Brown!
Take note all you Democrat politicians, ignore WE THE PEOPLE at your own peril...you could be in the unemployment line come November.
HowardCohodas
01-19-2010, 20:40
With over 75% of the vote in, it's a 7 point margin in favor of Brown. :lifter
I've got so much to do tonight and I can't tear myself away from the TV. This is such a guilty pleasure. And it's change I can believe in.
Snaquebite
01-19-2010, 20:44
Massachusettes voting Republican...There IS hope...
HowardCohodas
01-19-2010, 20:47
Massachusettes voting Republican...There IS hope...
I don't think Massachusetts voted Republican, I believe Massachusetts voted anti-big government irrespective of party.
GnSurfin
01-19-2010, 20:50
Congratulations Senator Brown, well deserved. The first good thing to come from this state in quite some time.
HAPPY 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY MR. PRESIDENT !!!!!
From The American People (via Massachusetts)
:munchin
Snaquebite
01-19-2010, 20:52
I don't think Massachusetts voted Republican, I believe Massachusetts voted anti-big government irrespective of party.
I agree
Well....looks as if the Dem "Blame Game" is ALREADY in full swing.
:munchin
Dems cast blame at each other over Senate campaign
WASHINGTON – The buck stops ... Well, it was hard to tell just where the buck stopped Tuesday when it came to the Democratic party's loss of the Massachusetts Senate seat that had been held by Edward M. Kennedy for nearly half a century. Days before Republican state Sen. Scott Brown officially captured the seat over Democrat Martha Coakley, Washington to Boston began dodging blame and pointing fingers at each other.
Cool-headed analysis of what was driving independents from Coakley to Brown? No. The issue was who botched Democrat Martha Coakley's Senate campaign more: her state people or national Democrats.
Most spoke the classic Washington way, under the cloak of anonymity. But President Barack Obama's senior adviser took precise, public aim at Coakley's camp as Brown closed in on the late Sen. Edward Kennedy's seat.
"I think the White House did everything we were asked to do," David Axelrod told reporters. "Had we been asked earlier, we would have responded earlier."
But the signs had been there. In the bluest of blue states, the election was seen, at least in part, as a referendum on Obama, on health care reform, on the Democratic majority that had controlled two of three branches of government for a year.
And the Republican candidate was surging.
What of Obama himself?
"Surprised and frustrated," reported White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, promising more presidential reaction Wednesday. "Not pleased."
Democrats could agree on the obvious: Somebody had taken the seat for granted, had underestimated the public's anger over the economy, over the Democrats' health care overhaul, over plain old arrogance in Washington.
Coakley pollster Celinda Lake acknowledged some missteps on the part of the campaign, such as failing to have enough money to go on the air early on to more sharply define Brown. But she said the problem was Washington and the Democratic Party. And she said the president's effort to overhaul health care was not defined enough to earn the support of some voters.
Disgust with Democrats runs so deep, Lake said, that the Coakley campaign was unable to persuade voters that the candidate had spent her career as a prosecutor going after Wall Street.
"People didn't believe it, and they didn't vote for her becase they think the Democrats in Washington are not putting up economic policies that serve Main Street and working families," she said.
Retorted a White House ally:
"If they thought there was a problem with health care or the nationalization of the race, why did they ask the president to come campaign for her?" asked the operative, who demanded anonymity to speak about internal party sniping.
For a week, high-level Democratic operatives panned Coakley's performance as so weak that even a personal appearance by Obama couldn't save her. The White House joined in Tuesday while people were still voting in Massachusetts, blaming Coakley and dismissing the notion that the toxic political environment had been a factor.
Coakley's campaign fired back in a point-by-point memo that blamed that very environment.
And, her aides added, if Coakley took the seat for granted, so did the high priests of the national party — the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic National Committee. Her lead, Coakley's supporters argued, dropped significantly after the Senate passed health care reform shortly before Christmas, and even more after the Christmas Day attempted bombing in Detroit that Obama himself said was a failure of his administration.
"DNC and other Dem organizations did not engage until the week before the election, much too late to aid Coakley campaign," read one bullet point by a campaign operative brought in to work on the campaign. Please don't pass this on, the adviser wrote.
"I'm not looking to get in a (fight) with the White House, but neither do I want to get steamrolled," this adviser wrote.
Too late.
"A pack full of lies and fantasies," shot back a senior national party official quoted by The Huffington Post. "The candidate in this race and the campaign have been involved in the worst case of political malpractice in memory and they aren't going to be able to spin themselves out of this with a memo full of lies."
Brown, a state senator, waged a door-to-door campaign that capitalized on voter dissatisfaction. He turned his pickup truck with 200,000 miles on it into a symbol of his workmanlike effort. He launched the campaign's ad war on Dec. 30 with a spot that commandeered the political potency of the Kennedy name. It opened with black-and-white footage of Kennedy's brother, President John F. Kennedy, arguing for an across-the-board tax cut. Then it cut to Brown finishing the speech.
All this as Coakley, the state attorney general, paused.
After winning a four-way primary with 47 percent of the vote, Coakley cut back on her appearances and disappeared entirely Christmas week, confident she needed only community and political activists and their networks in what was projected to be a low-turnout special election.
When she re-emerged, it wasn't to shake hands or rally supporters, but to sit on the stage at inaugurations for newly elected Democratic mayors. There was no stump speech, only press releases. And she balked at debates.
In a span of weeks, Brown had erased Coakley's double-digit lead.
The Democratic establishment in Washington snapped to attention, airlifting so many aides from Washington to help Coakley that after a while, her own campaign officials hardly recognized anyone walking around headquarters.
In the end, the verdict may not entirely be about any one party member or candidate.
"The Democrats have the White House. The Democrats have the Senate, as well," said Griffin Smith, 24, a teacher, who voted for Obama last year. "I would like to have more of a checks-and-balance system."
Best news I've heard in a while.
The DNC machine will be out in full force to try and distance the President from this...but it's going to be hard...because they can't muzzle EVERYBODY on their side. Was it the President's pushing of his agenda? ... not campaigning hard enough and showing interest in this race? Both?
No matter the reson or the spin this is the beginning of a train wreck.
dadof18x'er
01-19-2010, 21:29
HAPPY 1 YEAR ANNIVERSARY MR. PRESIDENT !!!!!
From The American People (via Massachusetts)
:munchin
Cyber cigars to all:D:lifter
I think we are looking at another possible GOP Presidential contender for 2012 with Brown too.
I got that same feeling too.
Don't know about 2012, but a defiant Future POTUS.
I got that same feeling too.
Don't know about 2012, but a defiant Future POTUS.
Lots of eyes on Brown now. It's up to him if he can keep them.
Me personally? I would have tied-in the American Revolution starting in Massachusetts against "big government" and "taxes" in my speech. Nevertheless, I thought he did a good job.
Me personally? I would have tied-in the American Revolution starting in Massachusetts against "big government" and "taxes" in my speech. Nevertheless, I thought he did a good job.
I agree.
In fact, as I was watching his speech on FOX, I was also reading that "crawler" at the bottom of the picture, and some GOP Politician said, (I missed who said it) "This is a 'Shot Heard 'Round' the World."
I agree.
In fact, as I was watching his speech on FOX, I was also reading that "crawler" at the bottom of the picture, and some GOP Politician said, (I missed who said it) "This is a 'Shot Heard 'Round' the World."
To me that whole (obvious) metaphor is a softball waiting to be hit out of the park...but tonight, Brown decided to take the pitch.
I agree.
In fact, as I was watching his speech on FOX, I was also reading that "crawler" at the bottom of the picture, and some GOP Politician said, (I missed who said it) "This is a 'Shot Heard 'Round' the World."
To me that whole (obvious) metaphor is a softball waiting to be hit out of the park...but tonight, Brown decided to take the pitch.
Right after I read that I thought to myself, the only thing that would have made it even better was, if Brown's HQ was IN Concord instead of Boston.
But, he has his truck and can just drive up the road to it. :D
:lifter :lifter :lifter :lifter
To the healthcare bill: "DIE!"
I think we are looking at another possible GOP Presidential contender for 2012 with Brown too.
I certainly hope not. The people of MA voted him in to do a job, and if he is going to run for POTUS in 2012, he will too busy campaigning to do that. We all bitched and moanded when Obama did that, why should we think it woukld be okay for Brown?
2016 should be plenty of time for him to get his feet wet in DC politics and then run for POTUS. IMHO.
greenberetTFS
01-20-2010, 14:20
I certainly hope not. The people of MA voted him in to do a job, and if he is going to run for POTUS in 2012, he will too busy campaigning to do that. We all bitched and moanded when Obama did that, why should we think it woukld be okay for Brown?
2016 should be plenty of time for him to get his feet wet in DC politics and then run for POTUS. IMHO.
I agree with afchic,he needs to get some experience first...............;)
Big Teddy :munchin
I certainly hope not. The people of MA voted him in to do a job, and if he is going to run for POTUS in 2012, he will too busy campaigning to do that. We all bitched and moanded when Obama did that, why should we think it woukld be okay for Brown?
2016 should be plenty of time for him to get his feet wet in DC politics and then run for POTUS. IMHO.
Absolutely agree 100%.