Leading Mass Blue Blog: "Yes It Sucks But Vote For Coakley Anyway"
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, January 14, 2010, 6:26 PM
Oh, this is rich…
The leading Massachusetts liberal blog Blue Mass Group is encouraging voters to plug their nose, bite their lip and vote for Martha Coakley.
“Yes it sucks. Yes You have to vote for Coakley”
Best line: “Meanwhile, Harry Reid races to catch Ben Nelson’s and Joe Lieberman’s farts on Capitol Hill.”
Let’s get this out of the way. You might not want to vote for Martha Coakley. You might think she deserves what’s she’s getting after an absentee, self-satisfied campaign (why should I bail her out?). You likely want to send a message to everyone from the attorney general all the way to every Democratic official in Washington, DC. Odds are you didn’t vote for her in the primary. And, you might be wondering if it’ll make a difference who wins this Tuesday.
You got every reason to be pissed, but it needs to be clear: not voting for Coakley is the same as voting for Brown. And voting for Brown is a very, very bad thing.sabutai :: Yes it sucks. Yes you have to vote Coakley.
Pissed? Me, too. Not just because I supported Mike Capuano. I’m frankly pissed about Washington, DC. Things are going very wrong — President Obama was absent from the process as the public option was killed, and would rather tax public servants in the middle class with so-called “Cadillac health insurance” then ask the wealthy to pay their fair share. Health care reform is heading toward a route where more money comes from the middle class, with about half going to people who need health care, and half going to the insurance companies. Oh, and Guantanamo is still open while American soldiers walk the streets in Baghdad and Kabul. Remember Employee Free Choice? Meanwhile, Harry Reid races to catch Ben Nelson’s and Joe Lieberman’s farts on Capitol Hill.
Fired up.
Hat Tip R. Grant.
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bill-tb commented:
Suckage is bad for your nostrils.
I wonder what Joe Lieberman thinks now that everyone knows that Heritage has exposed where the public option was hidden from view in the Senate bill — It’s going to be the responsibility of the OPM.
Betsy Ross commented:
Wow….and they think Sarah Palin is dumb….
bwaaaahhh…..take breath……haaaaaah…
snort…snort…
karen commented:
I prefer my popcorn with butter and salt, thank-you very much! Hahahaha. Pass the popcorn!
shibumi commented:
If I recall correctly, “Yes, he sucks, but you have to vote for him,” didn’t work out so well for John McCain.
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zanne commented:
Just vote Dem. Sure it’s all wrong and it won’t help. But, but…Jonestown talk. One more little sip of the bad brew.
squeaky commented:
OT but hypocrisy fits in just about anywhere.
with hollywood, it’s really about them…wouldn’t putting a major oil company out of business hurt the little guy……
[Alec Baldwin, award winning actor and wannabe leftist political commentator, called on Congress to sink congressional health care legislation today, saying he would rather the federal government "Put a Major Oil Company Out of Business,"]
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lachlan-markay/2010/01/13/hollywood-turning-against-obamacare
retired military commented:
Please cross post this thread on wizbang. The 2 just have to be seen together.
http://wizbangblog.com/content/2010/01/14/homeschoolers-the-new-terrorists.php#comments
Fundamentalist Protestant adults who were homeschooled over the last thirty years are not politically disengaged, far from it. They vote in far higher percentages than the rest of the population. They mobilize readily. The “army” in which adult homeschooled citizens are soldiers has enormous clout: homeschoolers were called “Bush’s Army” in 2000 and 2004 for good reason. Their capacity for political action is palpable and admirable, although doubly constrained: it is triggered by a call for action by church leaders, and in substance, it is limited to political action the aim of which is to undermine,limit, or destroy state functions that interfere with family and parental rights. Nevertheless, and by their own accountings, these citizen-soldiers in the “homeschooling movement” and the various political campaigns in which they are enlisted have no clout in the army in which they serve. They are as effective as they are, and as successful as they are, because they engage in politics in the same way that soldiers participate in combat. They don’t question authority, and they can’t go AWOL. With little education, few if any job skills, and scant resources, their power either to influence the lines of authority within their own sphere, or to leave that sphere, is virtually nil.
NeoKong commented:
Try clicking on the Blue Mass link and read beyond the fart comment. Those people ain’t too happy with Martha. They seem rather despondent. I like despondent.
I smell low voter turnout.
I love the smell of low voter turnout in the morning….it smells like…victory.
moonbat killer commented:
liberals are the most pathetic beings.
Brendon Carr commented:
You know, if *I* were working on the Scott Brown campaign, I’d put this endorsement on television.
Militant Conservative commented:
Target achieved, fire for effect. Powder is dry.
Even the independants and the conservative democrats do not like where we are headed.
Bring the rain. This is gonna be a massive wake up call to the NOTUS. LOL
Daniel commented:
A message to those Massachusetts Democrats with a conscience:
Hold your nose, lie to your party when they ask you who you are voting for – walk into your election site – - and vote for a real honest person who has not been lying to you.
Stephen Monteith commented:
I don’t vote for candidates that I don’t like. When the ’08 primaries reached Virginia, even though Mitt Romney had suspended his campaign the week before, I still voted for him; because that’s why we vote. You’re not throwing it away by voting for someone who has no chance of winning. Do you have any idea how many people don’t vote in any given election? If we had one hundred percent turnout every time, then there would be an entirely different group of leaders in Washington right now; and this country would be on a much better footing.
sujalea commented:
The writer used the term “insurance companies” as a if there is something inherently wrong with insurance companies. That “half the money going to insurance companies” quote is just sheer ignorance. I guess they don’t understand that the insurance companies of this country employ millions of people. Employees with good paying jobs where they can help people. I have worked in different aspects of the industry for the last 20 years. All I have ever met are good people who want to do the right thing.
Leslie D. Martin commented:
“…You have to vote for Coakley”?
I thought the left-wingers were all about “choice”. Where’s the choice is “have to”? I thought the left-wingers were all about one person not imposing their beliefs on another. Where’s the “not imposing beliefs” in “have to”? I thought the left-wingers were all about “tolerance”. Where’s the tolerance of Brown, his beliefs, of Brown’s supporters, of those who believe in the freedom to vote their conscience and of those who disagree with left-wingers in “…voting for Brown is a very, very bad thing…you have to vote Coakley”?