High anxiety: DNC dispatches helper to Boston. SEIU and White House next?
Humming High Anxiety…
Politico’s Ben Smith reports that the DNC is sending a senior press aide up to Boston to help out Democrat Sen. candidate Martha Coakley.
Can Purple Shirt Commanding General Andy Stern of the SEIU be far behind?
How about the White House? Maybe we’ll get our reverse Midas wish, after all!
At a weekend fundraiser for Coakley, “listlessness” was the operative word:
Democrats turn out for Coakley
Attendance at the fundraiser for the attorney general was light, but organizers claim it was a success.The fare was light, and attendance was even lighter, but enough contributions came in to enable the organizers of yesterday’s fundraiser for state Attorney General Martha Coakley to claim the outcome was a favorable one.
“I think it was a success,” reported organizer Nora O’Brien. “We raised more than $1,500, and that’s a good figure.”
Local Democrats had hoped for at least 100 attendees. O’Brien estimated the number was close to that. But in reality, Sunday’s event paralleled the listlessness with which voters statewide have treated the upcoming election to fill the unexpired Senate term vacated by the death of former Sen. Edward Kennedy. Coakley, the Democratic candidate, now leads Republican challenger Scott Brown by a relatively moderate nine points in the most recent statewide poll.
O’Brien said she was told by several male Democrats that scheduling the fundraiser for Sunday afternoon during a playoff appearance by the New England Patriots would probably deflate attendance. O’Brien admitted, however, that she isn’t a football fan. “I said ‘Who are they?’ ” she said, referring to the team that lost its playoff game to the Baltimore Ravens. Perhaps more importantly, Coakley was not there…
On the Scott Brown front, there’s a “Red Invades Blue” moneybomb fundraiser online today.
And front-line state troopers endorsed him today:
Martha Coakley may be the state’s attorney general, but her Senate rival is vying to match her law-and-order credentials.
Republican Scott Brown was scheduled Monday to receive the endorsement of the State Police Association of Massachusetts.
It represents rank-and-file troopers.
Association President Richard Brown says “the terrorist threat in this country is real and Scott Brown will always come down on the side of protecting our nation.”
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By all means, carry on with doing what is hurting her campaign…morons. Hahahahahah!
Nice map. Don’t forget that there is a large swath, largely to the north and west of 495, where things get more purple than blue. The real bastions of liberal stupidity center on Boston, out to 128, and down into the SE part of the state.
There are exceptions, of course, but this is a pretty good distribution.
BTW, what is the RNC sending to Massachusetts, other than a fruit basket and a congratulations-bouquet to Coakley?
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Oh yeah, they are geniuses. They know what Massachusetts wants. These people are supposed to be our ‘leaders’. They have no common sense.
It’s almost like a comedy. But they just keep spending money and acting like they know what they are doing.
I expect a light voter turnout, which is why the Republicans really need to push their support out to the polls.
Win or lose the effort in MA will distract and bleed the Democrats.
It’s all good.
I predict Sheriff Joe will be up there this week.
They will need to. We can expect to see Teddy Kennedy, JFK Jr., and Eunice Schriver all voting in this election.
SE Mass is purple too, McCain the rino actually won a bunch of towns down here. The chosen ones’ victory in my town was 50.5-49.5 so don’t be calling us blue!
Brown is the best candidate for the USA, they are in full panic mode now. Priceless. Let’s shock the world in 8 days.
Shouldn’t the tip of the cape be rainbow colored?
In any case, I am interested to see what, if any, ground game Republicans have in a state like MA. I would have to imagine that, due to atrophy if nothing else, it is pretty weak.
The people of Massachusetts, and Boston specifically, should be ashamed at how far from our founding fathers they have strayed. Absolutely ashamed.
LOL! Good one!
Keep talking, libs.
Great news! Such endorsements are extremely reliable indicators of which candidate is trending upward among average voters!
GO SCOTT!
Probably a 5% margin of victory is required to have an ACORN proof recount victory for Coakley.
OT sent to info@gop.com
Doesn’t know enough about the state and the people she’s asking to represent, and too lazy to find out, who the local football team is…during football season. What a maroon!
huh? O’Brien is not the one running. She is just a person holding a fundraiser in some little town in Western Massachusetts, one that the candidate was not even attending.
granted it wasn’t Coakley who said that about ‘who are the patriots’. But it was an organizer. You would think everyone would be into it with all their success. They almost went undefeated two years ago.
I would want my organizers knowing what the people I wanted to represent cared about. They should have both had expensive ads during those games in their markets. They should have been AT the game too. . . with their families.
Seriously, how do you get to be a campaign strategist? How does it pay? After Rudy’s Florida strategy, Thompson going to NH to talk about TN, and this I wonder what qualifies someone to do this job.
Sometimes I think that you can’t win if you elect any of them. I wish none of them would win. None of them should. It is a shame that someone has to sometimes.
And the Pats lost their first home playoff game in almost 30 years.
You’re right.
Must turn down the Johnny Copeland while reading!
Are you thinking that is somehow prophetic?
I’m hoping for a total collapse of the Democrats’ “progressive” pusch and the prosecution and conviction of it’s principals.
Amen to that.
Dr. Vicktor Lillolman: Working? Hmm, working. Working is a big word. I’m a consultant. It’s a fancy title for a part-time job.
Victoria Brisbane Coakley: I’m sorry, please forgive me. I’m just SO close to my menstrual cycle that I could SCREAM.
One can only hope. I dispise the Pats and their fans.
Oh. You mean in political terms? One can only hope…. I keep thinking of flying pigs and dimwits though.
For Chaps…
(Meanwhile at Coakley Campaign Headquarters)
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, “biblical”?
Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!
Analysis by Scott Rasmussen
Now if we could get GD Amerikkka Wright to go to Boston and support Coakley….
He’ll whip those typical white people into shape. Justice Bros next.
Arizona Cardinals won sunday. I taped the game so I can watch it when they decide to revert to their losing ways.
Even if Brown were 20 points ahead it wouldn’t make any difference. Remember, they are in liberal territory where any “additional” votes required to win for the Dem can always be delivered even if Obama and his Chicago thugs have to bus thousands into Boston and set them up in public housing.
And don’t forget Barney Frank’s gay brigade from around the country. They’ll be arriving in “Mass” also.
I go to dinner with the Cardinals beating the dog-tar or whatever out of the Packers, and I come back and the game is tied?
I don’t think Arizona is long for the playoffs…
Because my in laws are Mexican (we don’t visit anymore since the passport and murdered people at the border anymore), I am kind of hoping for a battle of the Mexican-American QBs in the Big Game, Antonio Ramiro Romo against Mark Sanchez.
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I lived near Baaahstan for a year–in 1969. The corruption was tremendous even then–and I couldn’t believe what poor service all state agencies I dealt with provided to taxpayers.
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And it is a very liberal union supporting state. And lots of dead people are on payrolls and are voting–real zombie territory.
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I think they will vote the DimocRAT lady in. After all–even after Teddy Kennedy’s Chappiquidic trick–and the “justice” system giving him a slap on the wrist–and after no jail time for Mary Jo K’s death–the people kept voting him back into office. One of my daughter’s friends made a similar mistake–without water–that resulted in the death of a young man. She is still in jail in Texas 4 years later–a first offense.
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Hope and Change isn’t working out real well for the U.S.A.–and I’m afraid the same applies for Mr. Brown’s election in Taxachussetts. It was good to return to Texas and sane government after my year in liberal heaven.
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John Bibb
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If you are talking about the RNC by itself, yes, it is weak. In case you hadn’t noticed, the overwhelming majority of what the Dems/libs fear has been generated by conservatives outside of the RNC structure without the permission of the RNC.
If the Repubs were left solely in charge of last years ‘relationship’ with Obama and a Democrat Congress, you would have had nothing to fear Chap, and you’d be catching more Z’s… right now.
the massachustts tenured college staffs and the unfireable gubmint staff make any republican’s task real difficult. but if ever there was a time when the commies of taxachusetts MIGHT be defeated, it is this year. the people are scared and mad.
But that is kind of my point. Say what you want about the RNC, but they are usually the ones with the institutional knowledge, caller lists, absentee voter lists, etc… that are crucial to a GOTV drive in the last days of a campaign. I am not saying there is not a ton of enthusiasm out there. I am just wondering if there is any structure in place that can effectively feed off of that. You look back at 2008, and there was a similar problem. McCain’s campaign was sorely lacking in ground game and grassroots infrastructure at the beginning of the campaign. He selects Palin, and suddenly there is a groundswell of support and motivated volunteers who showed up to campaign headquarters to find that, at least initially, there was no real plan and not enough resources to take advantage of the new enthusiasm. You heard story after story about this.
The Brown moneybomb is now up to $273,000. They have a goal of raising $500,000, so get out your checkbooks.
http://www.brownforussenate.com/red-invades-blue
Ed you’re dreaming, either that or you bumped your head walking to the john this morning. It could easily be ‘zona and Pittsburgh again, although the Boys have a line on it.
Pitt, the team that didn’t even make the playoffs?
I’m fearing that this race will be rigged. The entire state is rigged.
Even if Scott Brown wins, I’m sure there will be a way for SEIU, the Sec. of State, governor, the Feds, Eric Holder or someone to reverse it on some “technicality”.
We’ve raised $259,444.04 so far!
Or yes “refresh button”
We’ve raised $311,819.22 so far!
The real power base lies with the unenrolled voter in Mass. I know: I’m one of them. Lots of Brown signs and bumper stickers, very few for Coakley, at least in western Mass.
Something like 51% of voters in Mass are unenrolled. These are the ones who will decide on Brown vs. Coakley, not the far left moonbats! A win for Brown is a win for America. Maybe with Brown we will finally see some of that bi-partisan leadership in DC LOL
From my understanding, there would be even more signs and bumper stickers but they were so popular, the campaign ran out.
Just maybe that flat screen I bought for last year’s Super Bowl will finally be useful. I bought it to watch the Cardinals WIN-the dummies.
Just read on Boston Globe: Cokelay, is already comparing Brown with Bush and complaining about the evils of Bush-Cheney. How predictable.
Contribute as you can!
Chap, I think this has been the perennial problem of the Republican Party leaders and subordinates for many years, they have devolved to a party more interested in keeping what power they can get, rather than pursuing an ideology.
When Rush Limbaugh remarks similarly and calls it the “minority party mentality” whatn he is really referring to a mentality that is essentially:” Thank you for voting for me, now get the F**k away from me so I can get all the opportunities at hand to me now”. In short they just want to take the easy way out of everything. I believe that this is because for too many of the Republican elite, they already are (at least in their minds) personally and financially secure, and feel that they really don’t need political representation to get what they want-they just use their connections-and anyone who demands more than that when contributing or working the phone banks is dissed, at least in private. I think that for the Republican leadership, their thinking is that the marginal cost of pursuing an agenda is greater than the marginal benefit to them, and thus resist any change. Also, as a result, I believe that the Republican Party has been infiltrated by Progressives who may just as well be considered Democrat as a result of the Republican Leadership fixation on self over ideology.
Under normal circumstances, with what has been already generated by people outside the Republican establishment, the national Republican apparatus should be planning and licking its chops
for 2010, and yet we hear Michael Steele AKA “Shakey” (my nickname for him) sounding so unconfident, he almost sounds unhappy that people really want him to work as leader.
Steele reminds me of General McClellan during the War Between The States (1861-1865), what conservatives need is their General Grant.
Yes,by the way, Steele should be fired.
I take it you mean the McClellan to whom Lincoln wrote:
http://usmilitary.about.com/library/miljokes/bllincolnandmcclellan.htm
If Brown is like Bush I am even more glad I donated to his campaign.
Right now the money bomb is over $400K!
Funny the clueless organizer also thought that $1500 for the fundraiser was great. That should buy about 2 30 second TV spots late at night.
Here’s to hoping they continue to have the same level of ‘success’ for the rest of the week.
I really don’t think Coakley will lose here. I just don’t think that citizens of MA care that much about national politics. Their representatives are some of the worst in the nation to a person.
Kerry and Kennedy had to have been the worst Senate duo from any state. They care so little about anyone but themselves, it would be nice to have a rep with conviction and integrity.
4pm – Scott Brown just raised over half a million dollars, and the day is far from over!
Go Scott!
I donated to Brown last night. Didn’t know he had the fundraiser bomb going today. But I just saw he raised his goal of $500,000 in one day (today). Yeeee Haaaa
Yes, Michelle documented the liberal politicians in MA to stall his certification should he win
What is really astonishing about this race is what it reveals about the Democratic Party in MA. Everyone on earth (and a few people on Mars) knew Ted was dying and wasn’t likely to be around for long. yet this is the best they could do?
Just shows you that for far too long, garnering Ted’s support WAS the campaign strategy for most MA politicians. Because of that, MA Democrats now find themselves without a functioning party. Ted’s death has left a much bigger vacuum than anyone there ever imagined or expected.
Never mind Massachusetts;
for the good of America,…from your mouth (keyboard) to God’s ears.
A little off topic but this is a great ad by TheLadders.com that could just as well be used by conservatives to criticize what is wrong with the “big tent” GOP.