Inevitable: Coakley wraps herself in MLK cape
Hey, who knew Dr. King’s dream was for his children to one day be dependent on government from cradle to grave for everything from their health care to college tuition to mortgage payments?
Martha Luther King Coakley wasted no time using the MLK holiday today to cast herself on the side of civil rights (read: universal entitlements) and her opponents on the side of ending “The Dream:”
Coakley, in her remarks, linked her candidacy to the legacy of King and Edward M. Kennedy. “If you send me to the Senate, I will be guided by those values,” she said. “It’s not about me anymore. It never was. It’s what Martin Luther King stood for. It’s what Ted Kennedy stood for.”
And more:
“I’m running for the United States Senate because Dr. King’s work is unfinished; his dream is unrealized,” she said.
“Tomorrow we act on the dream and we make sure that we allow me to continue that work,” Coakley said. “We remember the dream tomorrow and we will act on the dream tomorrow.”
And more. Get out the barf bag:
Democrat Martha Coakley is asking Massachusetts voters to send her to the U.S. Senate to continue the type of work that filled the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Speaking at a King birthday breakfast, Coakley said Monday that “if Dr. King were here today, he’s be standing with us.” She says he’d especially want the country to pass President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.
How did Democrats greet Coakley’s shameless exploitation of the holiday and tomorrow’s prospects? “Grim” and “glum” were the operative words:
Among the crowd were glum Democrats, who have been pressed overdrive in recent days to rescue Coakley from faltering in what has become an unexpectedly close race.
Mayor Thomas M. Menino was grim when asked how the contest is going.
“It’s going,” he said.
Going south, according to the very latest Rothenberg update:
While special elections often come down to turnout – and they therefore are more difficult to predict than normal elections – the combination of public and private survey research and anecdotal information now strongly suggests that Republican Scott Brown will defeat Democrat Martha Coakley in tomorrow’s race to fill the remainder of the late-Sen. Edward Kennedy’s seat.
Brown is running extremely well with Independents in the Bay State, and unless Democratic turnout exceeds everyone’s expectations, Brown is headed for a comfortable win. Move from Toss-Up to Lean Takeover.
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‘It’s going’ down the tube for martha! Vote MA for Scott, thank you from people who love their Repbulic.
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Yes, MLK was a big proponent of everyone being enslaved by an out of control and overreaching Central Government. He would want our currency to be worthless. He would want us to be so far in debt that nothing but national collapse could rescue us. Those were his main points, weren’t they?
We must remember Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a registered Republican!
Go Brown!
This woman and her party have no shame. They are completley devoid of any moral compass. It’s all about winning and power and has nothing to do with what Dr. King espoused.
Nothing more satisfying to a conservative than panic in the eyes of liberal socialists over the rejection of their socialist, elitist, anti-American agenda. This is also sending a message to Republicans that want to compromise with liberals. Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
These people are as lame as they are corrupt.
“I’m running for the United States Senate because Dr. King’s work is unfinished; his dream is unrealized,” she said.
“Tomorrow we act on the dream and we make sure that we allow me to continue that work,” Coakley said. “We remember the dream tomorrow and we will act on the dream tomorrow.”
OK, so Martha’s taking over for MLK right? I think that I’m going to lose my breakfast.
Also, an excellent point b-cat, he’s rolling over in his grave once again as his name and legacy are distorted for dems.
pant on the ground pant on the ground Coakley looking like a fool with her pant on the ground. Vote for brown mass.
Look for them to start offering free crack and cigarettes next.
RedDog, you can bet the vans and buses are already gassed up and stocked for tomorrows “democrat alley trawl”
Gee, I hope Hillary didn’t didn’t wipe out the whole north east’s stock of cigs while shopping for the Haitians…
Obama single handily destroyed any false beliefs independents had about racism and Dr King’s alleged unfulfilled dreams. His dreams are alive in well in the Conservative self empowerment movement and non-existent in the Liberal train wreck. The uninformed Independents are no longer accepting the race card and they don’t accept being called a racist for any trivial matter that arises. I thank Obama for destroying his own party. The Democrats over played their dirty left hands (sorry for the Islamic pun). Game over.
MLK’s dream was a one party government? If he were alive today, he would be denounced by every liberal democrat. He would be Rush Limbaugh.
..and unlike Rosa Parks,
MarciaMartha went from the front of the bus, to the back of the bus, to under the bus.Now now be nice: some of her best friends are colored folks. Just because she doesn’t stand outside in the cold shaking hands does not mean she does not have “street cred“.
Please Elect Marcia so she and Patrick “Patches” Kennedy can be proud of their country, please? Shovel Ready Teddy would be proud (if sober).
Things Dr. King definitely stood for were self determination, perseverance and individual freedoms . . . the very things these leftist Democrats are trying to strip from the people. The civil rights movement was in no way an endorsement of the nanny state socialism the Democrats are trying to shove down our throats.
Bad move Marcia. MLK was dark skinned and spoke with a negro dialect. You’ll have to talk like Hillary… “Ah ain’t no ways tahred…I come too faahr!”
Oh, Martha isn’t totally opposed to standing outside in the cold to shake [some] hands.
Even if Brown wins this one, in the heart of the collectivist darkness (Massachusetts), it may not mean as much as some conservatives think it means.
There are many independents who lean leftward but are aghast at how far the Democrats will go when there is no balance of power. So they vote Republican to take away Reid’s 60 vote supermajority in the Senate.
It’s not because they are born again conservative independents. It’s because they don’t want the extreme leftists to continue to have such unrestricted power.
They realize it was a major mistake to elect such overwhelming Democrat majorities to go with a leftist Democrat President.
So it may not translate as well into a major conservative landslide in November as some conservative pundits seem to be thinking.
Don’t get me wrong. I very much hope I’m wrong and that a major realignment favoring conservatism is now taking place.
I’m just saying the struggle has just begun. This is Concord, not Yorktown.
Why didn’t she just come out and say “Vote for me tomorrow or I’ll tell God to destroy the rest of Haiti Wednesday!”
(BTW, I didn’t know MLK wore a cape… kidding.)
Seen on another news blog a few hours ago:
“If you want a good laugh, tune in to MSNBC and watch all the long faces”.
Whatever we may think of RINOs, it would be an upgrade to go from extreme liberal Democrat to centre-right Republican. If he votes against ObamaCare, he will be worth voting for.
Scott Brown also attended the King birthday breakfast.
Yes, Martha. If King were here and he could vote in Massachusetts, he’d vote for Scott Brown. King was a Republican after all
There is some great info. on King in this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Questions-About-American-History-Supposed/dp/0307346692/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263836076&sr=8-1
He was a wealth redistributor!
He wanted super-equality..
Correct.
Hopefully, this will be the first 2 x 4 to the face of our domestic enemies; and the first of our victories in regaining and restoring our wonderful nation.
Someone want to tell her that MLK was a Republican?
Naaa, Virginia and NJ were like Concord and Lexington; the opening rounds.
God willing this will go our way like the Battle of Cowpens.
Apparently there is no limit to the lowness lefties will stoop to in their obsessive pursuit of power and control. MLK would be outraged.
Hasn’t anybody noticed that Coakley claims the legacy of MLK without any specifics of what that legacy is? Hmmm.
A last-minute appeal to race by a desperate donk is like watching the end of Team America: World Police when Kim Jong Il orders Alec Baldwin to sway the crowd back in his favor: Baldwin tries to comply by croaking a few of the old, tried-and-true bromides (“Er, Corporations! Global Warming!”), but it’s too late — everyone already knows the truth.
Now, if only Brown would complete the movie comparison by ending his last campaign speech along the lines of, “Help me f*** these a**holes!”
Speaking at a King birthday breakfast, Coakley said Monday that “if Dr. King were here today, he’d be
standing withslapping the s**t out of all of us.Speaking at a King birthday breakfast, Coakley said Monday that “if Dr. King were here today, I would know what my A– would feel like on the business end of Dr. Kings shoe”
FIFY
Please vote for Marcia (Luther King) Croakley!
El CorrectO Roland (little Spanish for the uninitiated) but at the moment we fight the fight we are in. With Marcia splitting the vote with Martha things are looking a tad better.
On to the Cowpens.
“I’m running for the United States Senate because Dr. King’s work is unfinished; his dream is unrealized,” she said.
Yes, I too look forward to the day when black people have opportunities in this country. When the black man has the same rights as everyone else. When the black child is able to get an education. Some day. Some day.
And whose fault is that? It is the fault of the race-mongering, grievance whores of the Democrat Party.
Actually…….FYI
MLK was pro affirmative action and believed that government should use its powers to provide just opportunity to get blacks back on their feet.
One has to wonder if his views would change if he was brought back?
That said… Good luck Brown. He has got me hoping for change!
he’s be standing???
Is that a typo or did Bill advise Coakley to adopt a negro dialect?
Just because MLK was a Republican because he knew the Democrats would find a way to re-enslave his children, that doesn’t have anything to do with Martha Coakley’s co-op of an icon for her own purposes, would it?
Unfortunately she’s right but not the way she thinks. For most Dems/libs/journalists (from the Dept of Redundancy Dept), folks are still judged by the color of their skin and not the content of their character. She’s not posititioned at all to help fulfill the dream in that regard.
Only when doing magic tricks.
But would he be standing there beside himself?
“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial “outside agitator” idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.”
and
“An unjust law is a code that a numerical or power majority group compels a minority group to obey but does not make binding on itself…By the same token, a just law is a code that a majority compels a minority to follow and that it is willing to follow itself…”
“First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice…”
“I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fan in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.”
“Society must protect the robbed and punish the robber.”
“More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people. Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be co-workers with God, and without this ‘hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation. We must use time creatively, in the knowledge that the time is always ripe to do right.”
“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself…”
And so on.
Al Sharpton
Chuck Schumer
Hillary Clinton
Barack Obama
Charlie Rangel
Jesse Jackson
Robert Byrd
the late Ted Kennedy
Marcia, Martha, Coakley
Nancy Pelosi
Harry Reid
Waxman
Specter
Franken
Jefferson
Landrieu
Emmanuel
Boxer
Etc.
These are the LAST people who should remind us that they should be judged by the quality of their character.
A filthier crew have never run this country.
*Coakley with the typical liberal pablum; Dr. King would be ashamed with what has occured 40 years hence; The liberals have created(with some RINO help) a liberal plantation, basically destroying the black family and any semblance of self reliance in the one country that actually nurtured it as a basic principle.
*Coakley is looking for boots on the ground tomorrow, but all she’ll get is “pants on the floor”!
Disgusting. If Dr King were alive today and held to the same views he preached then, he would not be seen in the same room as Obama. Obama is a mockery of everything King preached when he talked about content versus color. Obama was voted into office because he was, well, half black anyway. He was not voted into office based on his character.
Inevitable: Republican lets racial lies and omissions and brainwashing memes fly without responding with the truth about Democrats and civil rights legislation, about Democrats and the KKK, about Democrats and MLK’s animosity toward them, about Democrats and “Whites Only” and how they brought it about, about Democrats and the Ghettos that they run to keep the blacks down, about Democrats and Margaret Sanger, about Democrats and their years-long plan to use the blacks for votes since they (sadly, to them) can no longer keep them as slaves.
And not one Republican office-holder in 40 years can tell the truth to blacks in America, because Republicans have NO BALLS, and no conviction, and not one of them will answer any of these Democrat/KKK bastards/bytches with anything but a shake of the head and SUBMISSION.
When will a Republican grow a set, and tell Black Americans what has been done to them for the last 50 or so years BY THE DEMOCRATS? Until that happens, (R) is NO BETTER THAN (D), and is merely a silent enabler of the continuing slavery of black America to the Democrat party.
I’m so mad right now I could spit.
I seriously doubt that Dr. King would be supporting Martha and I know that he was a Republican, not a Dimocrap.
The Dims have been abusing Dr. King since John Kennedy was President and it’s a shame that most Black Americans can’t see the Dimocraps for what they really are.
Yep, she accuses Brown of heartily agreeing with a rape slur then wraps herself in Martin Luther King comparisons. What a wacky campaign.
Emotional blackmail does not work on me. Low income people of all races who vote for democrats deserve what they get and I have no sympathy for them. State control and shrinking the federal government will solve all our problems.
And, I might add, mindlessly vote for disgusting politicians whose policies create death, disease, fatherlessness and homelessness for those very children.
It would surprise you of the number of caring folks out there that try with all their might to educate their black brothers and sisters of real history and how it relates to this present mess. Sadly, few want to hear, much less will believe.
The Senate seat really IS the PEOPLES’ seat. Finally, Teddy (the swimmer) has a seat that is MUCH warmer.