Senate candidate Martha Coakley wins key backing from Bill Clinton

[FrenchieCat]

Source: Boston Globe



By Matt Viser, Globe Staff

Attorney General Martha Coakley has earned a key voice of support: Former president Bill Clinton has recorded a telephone message that will be blasted out tomorrow to 500,000 voters urging them to elect her.

"Martha Coakley will go to Washington to fight every day to create good jobs with good benefits and to get health reform with a strong public option," Clinton says in the message. "You can trust her to get results in the Senate just as she has as your Attorney General. This election is very important to Massachusetts. So don't forget to vote tomorrow and please vote for Martha Coakley."


In a US Senate campaign that has included numerous endorsements, Clinton’s is the most prominent and comes at a key moment before primary voters head to the polls on Tuesday.

It could also help galvanize some of Coakley’s most ardent supporters. Coakley is hoping to become the first female US Senator from Massachusetts and has courted many of the women who were active in the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, the former president’s wife and the current secretary of state.



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[bertman]

1. Does this mean she's a DLC Dem? My guess is YES.

[No Elephants]

4. She's DINO. If she were not a civil servant in Massachusetts, she'd probably be a Republican. Not

too bright, either.

[bertman]

6. No big surprise, I guess, since Big Dawg supports her. He and Hillary and the DLC

mighty seem to feel that the corporate way is the ONLY way. Very sad. Infuriating actually!

Thanks for the appraisal, No Elephants.

[Alexander]

2. Yeah, Clinton sure helped Gavin what's-his-name win in California.

Oh wait...

[No Elephants]

3. Coakley never did a progressive thing in her life, until she started eying Ted's seat. Of the

four Democrats running for his seat, three claim his legacy. She never mentions him. And Ted's family members were hurt by her because she ramped up to run for Ted seat before he died. So it figures that Bill would endorse her.

Bill's endorsements lately seems to be on the basis of his grudges--in California because he thought it might hurt his old foe, Jerry Brown, a liberal, and in Massachusetts because it spites the family of Ted Kennedy, an early primary supporter of Barack Obama and a liberal.

Coakley got over a million dollars from Emily's List alone, she is the only candidate with statewide name recognition (from all her years as a prosecutor), and she is the only woman in the race, all of which helped her. (Massachusetts likes to vote for women and minorities.)

She started the race as a huge favorite. However, as the campaign progressed, the gap began to close. I suspect that is because she is an intellectual lightweight, a fact people picked up when the saw the the four candidates in debates and round table discussions. However, the other candidates are out of time. The primary is tomorrow and she is still the favorite, although by a lot less than she was when the race began.

It's hard to tell if Bill Clinton's endorsement, coming this late, will matter much. Massachusetts did go for Hillary heavily in the primary. However, the DLC types are already behind Coakley, as she is a DINO.

Too bad most voters do not know enough about things like deregulation, "too big to fail," derivatives and the Great American Job Drain, to understand that the policies of Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton put us into this economic black hole, almost as much as Dummya's war profiteering. It's hard to say whether Ronnie was more responsible than Bill, or vice versa, but Bill was supposed to be one of ours. (And it would be interesting to study how much Bill hurt Gore's candidacy, but, unless someone did study that, it's just speculation.)

Ah, the good ole DLC, aka Republicans II, which gave us, among others, Joe Lieberman, Rahm Emanuel, DADT. DOMA--and helped pave the way for the second Great Depression. It would be such a shame if that's where Ted Kennedy's mantle falls tomorrow, against the wishes of the only members of the Kennedy family who have spoken out (and endorsed Mike Capuano).

[CoffinEd]

5. Oh great!

Now I can expect my voice mail to be overflowing with recorded messages from Martha and Bill. By the way, I agree with all of the previous comments and, for the record, my wife and I plan to vote for Mike Capuano.