Little Annie Coakley
Date: January 18th 2010
Little Annie Coakley
The election today in Massachusetts is fascinating because of the national repercussions, because people are viewing it as a referendum on President Obama, and because Americans never get tired of a good underdog story.
And let’s be clear, Scott Brown’s rise from being the no-chance-in-hell candidate to the hey-he-might-actually-win-this-thing candidate – in one short month – is a great underdog story.
All that aside, tomorrow’s election is also fascinating for another reason: how incredibly bad Martha Coakley has been as a candidate. She’s condescending, aloof, dishonest, and almost cartoonishly ill-informed. “Little Sure Shot” she’s not. During the one debate she acquiesced to, she said the following in response to the question, “How do you think we succeed in Afghanistan?"
“I'm not sure there is a way to succeed.”Not a good answer. Here’s the main thing about being a candidate for high office: you are supposed to have solutions. Why else would people vote for you instead of the homeless bum lying on the sidewalk out front? He doesn’t have solutions either, but at least by sending a bum to Washington they’d be returning him to the mother ship.
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