Not Just A Bad Candidate
Yes, Martha Coakley had two of the worst weeks a campaign could ask for, short of a bimbo eruption or federal indictment. The line is going to be that it's all her fault: if only Mike "you're screwed" Capuano had won the primary, Brown would still be an unknown state senator in Wrentham, and even I don't know where that is.
Baloney, I say.
Not to say the candidates aren't different: Coakley was hack insider wholesale politics; Capuano is pure retail, and he comes in three unique flavors: "angry," "really pissed," and "fucking bullshit." Capuano would have kissed every baby inside state lines, known which team Curt Schilling pitched for, and personally challenged Scott Brown to a bare-knuckles boxing match on center ice at Fenway.
But let's not forget: Coakley beat him like a gong in the primary, 47-28. If I were running against Capuano, I'd have just one question: "What have you been waiting for!?" Unlike Martha Coakley, Mike Capuano has had two years in Washington to do something about jobs, and for two years he's marched in lockstep with the House leadership.
The Democrats hold the largest majority of the Federal government in decades. I listened to liberals complain that mean nasty Republicans were filibustering healthcare in 1992. I've listened to them complain about Newt Gingrich hamstringing Bill Clinton in 1995. I listened to them gnash their teeth and rend their garments when the GOP took the Senate back in 2002. I listened to them howl in 2007 that they were being force-fed the agenda of the most unpopular president in history, mere months after dealing his party a historic defeat in the midterm elections. In short, they blame everyone and everything, except their own agenda.
So thorough is the delusion that they are now preparing to blame the Republican smear machine for losing in Massachusetts, where Ghandi could run on the Republican ticket for Registrar of Deeds and lose to some Democrat's brother-in-law with two DUIs.
This election was not just about Martha Coakley--that's good for 15, 20 points maybe, not the 35+ she gave up since this shindig began. It wasn't a vote against the president Obama promised to be, the one who carried Massachusetts by over 25%. It was a vote against the president he's become, the one who still blames his predecessor for every problem, who flew frantically into town two days before an election to deliver a speech full of mockery and spite against an opponent who came barely up to his ankles.
Baloney, I say.
Not to say the candidates aren't different: Coakley was hack insider wholesale politics; Capuano is pure retail, and he comes in three unique flavors: "angry," "really pissed," and "fucking bullshit." Capuano would have kissed every baby inside state lines, known which team Curt Schilling pitched for, and personally challenged Scott Brown to a bare-knuckles boxing match on center ice at Fenway.
But let's not forget: Coakley beat him like a gong in the primary, 47-28. If I were running against Capuano, I'd have just one question: "What have you been waiting for!?" Unlike Martha Coakley, Mike Capuano has had two years in Washington to do something about jobs, and for two years he's marched in lockstep with the House leadership.
The Democrats hold the largest majority of the Federal government in decades. I listened to liberals complain that mean nasty Republicans were filibustering healthcare in 1992. I've listened to them complain about Newt Gingrich hamstringing Bill Clinton in 1995. I listened to them gnash their teeth and rend their garments when the GOP took the Senate back in 2002. I listened to them howl in 2007 that they were being force-fed the agenda of the most unpopular president in history, mere months after dealing his party a historic defeat in the midterm elections. In short, they blame everyone and everything, except their own agenda.
So thorough is the delusion that they are now preparing to blame the Republican smear machine for losing in Massachusetts, where Ghandi could run on the Republican ticket for Registrar of Deeds and lose to some Democrat's brother-in-law with two DUIs.
This election was not just about Martha Coakley--that's good for 15, 20 points maybe, not the 35+ she gave up since this shindig began. It wasn't a vote against the president Obama promised to be, the one who carried Massachusetts by over 25%. It was a vote against the president he's become, the one who still blames his predecessor for every problem, who flew frantically into town two days before an election to deliver a speech full of mockery and spite against an opponent who came barely up to his ankles.
posted by The Snob at
8:14 PM
1 Comments:
Well-written, snob. I caught your blog link with your comment on the Econlog web site that I share with Arnold Kling and Bryan Caplan.
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