Coakley’s worst enemy: Her tongue
Martha Antoinette (Photoshop credit: Ruby Slippers)
The listless, hapless Massachusetts Senatorial campaign of Martha Coakley has turned…
GAFFETASTIC!
We already know how she feels about glad-handing at Fenway Park: It’s beneath her.
And now, the latest: She told radio talker Ken Pittman that Catholics with consciences shouldn’t work in emergency rooms.
COAKLEY: “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.”
Is this also her official position as state Attorney General of the Bay State? Catholic medical professionals might want to ask.
Also of interest: Coakley’s comments in the same interview about her role in the notorious rape case of a 23-month-old toddler. The comments begin at about the 6:30 mark. She suggests that the mother of the child may have been “potentially guilty in that case” — which begs the question (unasked by the host) of why Coakley didn’t pursue criminal charges against her:
Power Line has collected Volume I of Quotations from Chairman Martha.
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As damning, if not more, is what Coakley won’t discuss. Pioneering investigative columnist Dorothy Rabinowitz spotlights Coakley’s role in the Gerald Amirault outrage and reports that Coakley refuses to comment:
Attorney General Martha Coakley—who had proven so dedicated a representative of the system that had brought the Amirault family to ruin, and who had fought so relentlessly to preserve their case—has recently expressed her view of this episode. Questioned about the Amiraults in the course of her current race for the U.S. Senate, she told reporters of her firm belief that the evidence against the Amiraults was “formidable” and that she was entirely convinced “those children were abused at day care center by the three defendants.”
What does this say about her candidacy? (Ms. Coakley declined to be interviewed.) If the current attorney general of Massachusetts actually believes, as no serious citizen does, the preposterous charges that caused the Amiraults to be thrown into prison—the butcher knife rape with no blood, the public tree-tying episode, the mutilated squirrel and the rest—that is powerful testimony to the mind and capacities of this aspirant to a Senate seat. It is little short of wonderful to hear now of Ms. Coakley’s concern for the rights of terror suspects at Guantanamo—her urgent call for the protection of the right to the presumption of innocence.
If the sound of ghostly laughter is heard in Massachusetts these days as this campaign rolls on, with Martha Coakley self-portrayed as the guardian of justice and civil liberties, there is good reason.
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I think she suffers from cranial-rectal inversion.
Separation of Church and state is twisted by liberals to undermine all morality. Doesn’t anyone understand it’s true intention?
That would close a few hospitals…Hahaha
OT
Another one Bites the dust…
For the past 60+ years family owned New England retailer of electronics, appliances, bedding, and more, Bernie’s has called it quits and will be going out of business closing all 15 stores and putting 350+ people out of work. Change!
http://www.courant.com/business/hc-berniesbankrupty0115.artjan15193318,0,3627660,full.story
Fortunately for her there are no Catholics in Mass. Oh wait,
Chowdah-head.
Coakley also prevented the heart donation of a Massachusettes man who died as the result of a beating.
Link.
http://www.theheart.org/article/277603.do
Is there a limit on how many Gaffes Martha Coakley can have in one week?
Former President Bill Clinton is scheduled to campaign for Martha Coakley on Friday in Boston and Worcester.
But Bill Clinton is the UN Special Envoy to HAITI.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Despite-earthquake-UN-Haiti-envoy-Bill-Clinton-to-stump-in-Massachusetts-81521657.html
Um…Shouldn’t Bill be a little more focused on Haiti this week?
Keep talking lady……keep talking. With every statement, voters leave you.
So keep yappin’.
Is she admitting here that she considers herself a Catholic without a conscience? That would certainly make her morally qualified to follow in Ted’s footsteps.
Isn’t a psycopath one who exhibits amoral behavior without empathy or remorse, or in other words, one who has no conscience? What could go wrong at a Catholic hospital staffed only by people without consciences? And what happens to the care of old mamas and papas when Obama’s
death panelmedical advisory board puts pressure on the hospital to reduce medicare costs?She could have also said that Catholics with consciences shouldn’t run for office as Democrats. Democrats are not allowed to vote their conscience and depart from the party line when it comes to things like abortion and stem cell research.
I’d like to see Coakley make a statement like that about Muslims: “Muslims with consciences who don’t want to come in contact with pork or alcohol shouldn’t work in stores or restaurants.” But she wouldn’t have the courage to say that. It’s one thing to lose your seat. It’s quite another to lose your head.
Wow! Democrats do want to limit opportunities for people: Anyone with a working conscience need not apply!
I second Papa Louie’s suggestion. Candidate Coakley would then be hailed as having the courage of her convictions!
While not a Mass. voter, if there is ever a compelling reason not to vote for this person, this WSJ Op ed says it all.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575003341640657862.html
Keep in mind that Mass. is the state which enthusiastically sent the Swimmer back to the Senate time and again after leaving a young woman to drown while seeking the best way to save his political ass.
The voters in that state or so thoroughly steeped in Dem leftism that the lack of scruples and character shortcomings of Coakley just don’t matter.
The Looney Left Leaning Liberals in Mass. deserve the government they elect. It is sad that government affects the rest of us.
we all need brown to win .just look at what happen to germany in the 30 s that one party running everything worked good huh
And remember Papa, it was that famous check bouncer, Chuck F. U. Schumer, who said that pro-life Catholics shouldn’t be Federal judges!
The far left, as demonstrated by this Coakley character, are not fit to govern Free People. Their views reflect those of dictatorships of countries, like communist China, Cuba or North Korea.
You Typical White People have been treating Our Uniqueness shabbily. Yes Sir/Ma’ma If this were Illinois King Richard the II would have it all wrapped up by now-the Massachusetts Machine is failing Our Imperialness. We are not amused.
A symptom of all hard-left Democrat politicians.
I’ve read that Brown is now leading in the polls.
Could the people of Massachusetts FINALLY be coming to their senses!?!?
That would be a first, but don’t hold your breath.
The thing that strikes me about this situation is that you have a career politician hack (Coakley) who has never really had to run a campaign and is probably of mediocre talent as a DA who is being beaten into the ground by a guy who has fought harder, scrappier and smarter with less money and no machine. It shows the hardening of the political arteries for many democrats in seemingly liberal safe areas, which might make for good conservative unknowns to think about running when they otherwise wouldn’t and couldn’t win. Think political Darwinism.
Perhaps some of them. This bunch does not remind me of the stout people at Concord and Lexington. That state has gone from resisting the Red Coats to riding the Kennedy/Kerry coat tails and paying for the privilege.
But perhaps the worm has turned-we shall see.
This will certainly tick off the medical community of MA. Keep them coming, Croaker.
Playing off of Coakley’s comments: “Catholics with consciences shouldn’t vote for Democrats.”
i just got this it.s off subject but everyone needs to read this HR2454 cap&trade bill http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/thinking-about-selling-your-house-a-look-at-hr-2454-cap-trade-bill-wow-home-owners/question-685737/ee this
Is she related to Biden?
I don’t have warm fuzzy feelings that the Massachusetts voters will do the right thing. How long was Kennedy in office?
here is a better link http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-2454
Isn’t there a large Catholic population in MA? Irish immigrants in Boston come to mind.
1. Open mouth.
2. Insert foot.
3. Chew vigorously.
Typical liberal, botoxed and brain dead.
Nor should any other Christian. Those without a conscience will continue their bloody work. Await Director Oliver Stone’s Showtime miniseries “Secret History of America” which puts Stalin and Hitler “in context” to justify all sorts of brutality.
Too bad that pig gets the respect he does. More than one Viet Nam veteran has been told he does not understand the Viet Nam war as they have not seen the Hollyweird takes. I think the fools really believe it. They will be the people voting for Coakley.
Question: If Coakley were taken to the hospital in dire straits would she wait for a humanist doctor to stop the bleeding? “Quick-put a tourniquet on her mouth”.
wait, this just in, the massachussetts democrat machine has announced they will put forth a new candidate, and the laws of the state will be changed to allow this, ala new jersey. the election will have to be postponed until november, but the state has a temp senator that was likewise boosted into office with dem machine political law rigging. no harm, no foul, just politics as usual. sarc off!
The fence the “moderates” have been sitting on is crumbling. Couldn’t happen to a better bunch of opportunist.
That was no gaffe, it was a Democrat saying what she actually thinks. This is what happens when liberals slip up and say what they believe, although I’m sure she will claim it was a gaffe, or that she misspoke as is now the fashion.
Gaffetastic? Perhaps, but I would charaterize her as heartless, cold and bordering on cruel.
There is a darkness within her. I truly mean that.
martha is brain dead because her head is so far up her butt that she strangles herself every time she strains.
Don’t laugh. They essentially forced the venerable Catholic Adoption agency in Massachusetts to close its doors because it wouldn’t place children with homosexual couples.
That’s even more of a slap in the face to Catholics and other religious people, especially considering that there are plenty of non-religious adoption agencies that will place children with homosexuals.
And her lies about the conscience clause that Scott Brown proposed are an insult to every thinking person.
My first reaction was to laugh – good one, AzN!
My second was to say, Please, don’t! If she wants to commit political suicide, by all means, let her keep talking.
I posted this at Red State. Coakley has managed to insult Fenway and Catholics, but she still has a busy weekend in front of her. I’ve managed to find out part of her itinerary leading up to the election.
Today is Friday, she’ll need to head around Cape Cod and point out how much she has always hated chowder. If pressed, concede that Manhattan style is tolerable.
Saturday, she needs to start ripping hard on the Irish. Call them all drunks. Pledge to see all Irish taverns put out of business. Also point out that she never thought ‘Cheers’ was funny.
Sunday, she can run TV ads during the playoff games saying that she is happy the Patriots are out of the playoffs. Call Tom Brady filthy names. When asked about her position on football, make sure to bring up Spygate.
Monday, its back to old talking points. Speak out against the Red Sox long and hard. Blame Bush/Cheney for the World Series titles in 2004 and 2007 and pledge to bring the ‘Curse of the Bambino’ back to Boston. Use the numbers ‘1918′ and ‘27′ a lot.
Afterward, play with Ted Williams’ frozen head on camera – hire a ventriloquist to make him give you an endorsement. (Note to staffers: Get in touch with Hillary re: her old Yankee cap from 2000 – a must have for the final 24 hours.)
Tuesday morning: Fly to D.C. Never set foot in Massachusettes… Masachusettss… Vermont again.
A tourniquet on her neck might do more good.
Good morning, Wayfaring Stranger! You must be feeling pretty good this a.m., seing the latest polls. I am!
We are so close to victory, I can taste it! I truly believe the ONLY way this idiot woman can win is by fraud and corruption. If the polls are watched carefully and these people are kept in the spotlight, I believe the cockroaches won’t be able to gather and contaminate the Constitutionally guaranteed free election!! Anyone caught trying to tamper with the election must be arrested and jailed for treason, because that is exactly what it would be.
Remember, the SEIU and ACORN will be voting early and often, and rounding up homless people with Tony Romo’s (or maybe Carl Yastremski’s or Tom Brady’s) voter registration card to vote in exchange for a pack of smokes or a 40 ouncer.
Brown needs to win by about 5% of the legal Massachusetts residents who are alive and over 18 and only voting once, or this goes to the recount, and the added Mothra Croakely ballots waiting in someone’s
garagewarehouse.That’s not exactly good news. They’re much better at fraud and corruption than we are.
Good morning to you too, happyscrapper!
We’re feeling energized, hopeful, put never, ever complacent. As I mentioned in another thread, the fact that Re-pub-li-can Scott Brown – that’s an approximation of the way the voices in Coakley’s ads practically spit out the word
– the fact that he’s running such an amazing race for the senate seat that Obama and the Dems persist in calling the Kennedy seat [remember that JFK held it before Teddy - that's a story in itself] seems to be encouraging conservatives to consider running against other entrenched Democrats.
So we live in hope.
My Grandmother was born in 1904 in Marshfield, MA to an Irish immigrant servant girl and a young Yankee man in the family she worked for, and was the youngest of three.
On the father’s side, the Lanes, they go back to colonial times, and had forefathers that fought for the Union.
My grandmother worked in the first Howard Johnson’s, my Aunt Ruthie, descended from Irish immigrants, married to a Syrian Christian and living in the North End, a couple of blocks from the now demolished “Orange Line” elevated station by Boston Garden, that crossed the river and went to Edward Everett Square up in Charlestown, took me to my first Red Sox game.
Grandma is buried in the old cemetery in Marshfield, after living 99 years. The night before the burial, we ate lobster rolls in Plymouth.
It would be so awesome if the state that gave us Paul Revere and the Minuteman, John Adams and John Hancock, Lexington and Concord, could be a national pride again instead of a laughingstock.
Which is why keeping the klieg lights of public scrutiny focused on this election is so important. Even those on the other side are murmuring against any backroom shenanigans – and they are focusing those complaints toward the usual suspects on the left.
So I agree, fraud isn’t out of the question. But I think they’d have a much harder time getting away with it this time.
Those old Orange Line trains were cool. Grandma lived in North Quincy, and when I was first visiting, they didn’t have subway service yet, one took the bus to Fields Corner. Then the train to Columbia. My Great-Aunt Mary Lydon, the only relative I ever knew that spoke with the “Old Country” accent, lived in the projects between South Boston and Dorchester, right where the train goes into the subway tunnel.
A few Summers later, when the train to North Quincy was finished, and before they tore down the elevated to Charelstown, I’d go into the city, and stand in the front of the elevated train car as it came out of the tunnel, took two very sharp turns, and went on to Charlestown.
Living in Massapequa, NY, at the time, I was jealous how many times our snow turned to rain and we had Catholic school, and Boston stayed all snow.
Amen, Ed. Amen.
My Aunt Frances in Glendale, NY lived on an elevated subway line, which I rode a few times.
But I digress.
Frances Robinson had metastatic breast cancer for about six years, and honest to goodness, cheerfully awaited the days she’d see Jesus and her parents.
She lived about 5 years longer than the doctors expected, and was almost always cheerful, despite the pain, which she had assumed was arthritis before her diagnosis.
She was also a Republican, and a devout Catholic. My Dad was an FDR Democrat and WW2 vet, and in the Transport Workers Union, and never realized the anti-communist Democrats like Scoop Jackson and Harry Truman didn’t exist in that party anymore.
As a Virginian, I empathize. Luckily, we here in VA still have many Southern sensibilities. Gov. Kaine’s last day is tomorrow and he can go do his no. 1 job heading the DNC. DLTDHYOTWO.
Have no worry! It doesn’t matter what this brain-damaged moron says. The Democrats are hard at work right now manufacturing and hiding countless ballots that will be “discovered” throughout the state over the next few weeks. Elections aren’t won without a little preparation, you know…
Ed, you’re taking me down memory lane, only for me it was taking the bus and then the old train from the north shore down to Somerville to visit family there.
One year we had so much snow in February that a total of two weeks worth of school was canceled, not including the scheduled winter vacation week that coincided with Washington’s birthday, Feb. 22nd – no generic ‘Presidents’ Day’ back then!
February 1978 it was all snow in Massapequa, over 25 inches, even NYC got 18 inches, and I missed 5 straight days of Catholic school.
Oh, the wind was fierce too. Homes in Fire Island washed away by the ocean.
Happy Times.
I pray to God for that.
That is essentially the email I sent as an idea to the Brown campaign several days ago:
One might wonder where the defamation of character/slander lawsuit can be filed by said mother.
Anybody know for which party the East Boston feline “Sal Esposito” is voting?
I would expect him to vote DemoCAT…
Don’t forget her pathetic prosecution of a Somerville police officer living in Melrose raped his 23-month-old niece with a hot object, most likely a curling iron.
http://www.boston.com/yourtown/melrose/articles/2010/01/06/some_saw_coakley_as_lax_on_05_rape_case/
For the children, indeed….
Lets see, should Catholic Hospitals have emergency rooms? I think we have been too soft on allowing abortions. I had a debate with someone about Waterboarding as torture, yet he was defending partial-birth abortion. Lets see innocent baby, ok to torture and kill. Killer of innocent babies et al. no intensive interrogation to find his cohorts. There is NO MORAL high ground for the left.
There is no moral ground for the socialists…period.
Hasn’t been for 40-45 years, if not longer.
In fact, if one has the temerity to invoke morality in a discussion; well, as the saying goes, “Them’s fightin’ words” to socialists. (I know, “morality is just one word….)
There is no moral ground for the socialists…period.
Hasn’t been for 40-45 years, if not longer.
In fact, if one has the temerity to invoke morality in a discussion; well, as the saying goes, “Them’s fightin’ words” to socialists. (I know, “morality is just one word….)
Apologies for the double post.
What does that even mean? What a kook. If she gets elected even Robert Mugabe has a shot.
Jonah Goldberg- right on!
Errah, Martha quit talking you’re killing yourself. I’ll give ole Martha a ride to the voting booth next week.
Errah the moral highground for most democrats is somewhere between the public’s respect for attorneys and whale dookie.
Errah, I’ve already sent in my absentee ballot for next week and will also be showing up at the polls.
Isn’t it just about time for Martha Coakley to offend yet another group?
It would be just her style to now say something derogatory about the military…
Oh, I’m talking about a decade before the Blizzard of ’78, Ed.
We got hit with one snowstorm after another, piling up the snow so high that the swingset in our yard was almost buried.
8th Grade in 1978.
Internship in 1978.
Got to run the service alone for a couple of days (lived next to the hospital) because the resident could not make it in (police had closed the roads).