Why did the haters and the hecklers win?

[Ken Burch]

How could Massachusetts lower itself to voting for the candidate of ugliness?

And how can we ever recover from this?

[KittyWampus]

1. by choosing candidates who will actually, you know, CAMPAIGN?

[cliffordu]

3. There ya go. Maybe they should be able to spell their states, too.

[Jennicut]

4. LOL. I don't think the voters can be totally blamed if they thought Coakley didn't care about them.

[Ken Burch]

7. But goddamnit, they KNEW no Republican ever did.

And they all knew Brown had no redeeming features.

[rwheeler31]

2. This is going to be tough on the people of Mass,

Friendships will be lost.

[Ken Burch]

5. Massachusetts pissed on Teddy's grave tonight.

Nobody who voted for Brown has any right to say he or she ever supported what Teddy was about.

[anonymous171]

8. What does Ted Kennedy have to do with any of this?

[Ken Burch]

11. It was his seat...Less than six months after he died fighting for the people of Mass

They voted for someone who hates everything Teddy stood for. There was no excuse for that. With those votes, they said that nothing Teddy did ever meant anything to them. Nobody who voted for Brown has any right to have a picture of any Kennedy up in their home after tonight. They've said that they just want ugliness.

[anonymous171]

12. I don't even know how to respond to that.

[Ken Burch]

14. It's hard to believe Massachusetts won't just go all the way hard right now

Why should anyone think this is just a one-off?

I'd like to think somebody there will fight back...but why should I?

[Jennicut]

20. Do you know New England at all? We always do this. Lots of Dems with one prominent Rethug.

Hell, in CT we have had a Dem legislature for years and we have a moderate Rethug Gov. Twice we elected two different moderate Rethugs. Mass had Rethug govs 4 times in row. Now they have Patrick, a Dem, for Gov.
Mass is not moving right. People are worried about the economy and confused and upset over what the Dems offered on health care. Too much deliberation and not enough clear cut action.

[HipChick]

10. Already done

[OHdem10]

6. Simple: Passion and Intensity always win.

[MrsCorleone]

17. Slight amendment: Corporate funded passion and intensity always win.

[Danger Mouse]

9. Coakley's hubris. That's why.

[JVS]

13. Because "it's only been a year" might work on DU but not in MA

[sendero]

15. There's your absurd assumption..

... there aren't enough haters and hecklers in MA to do this.

It was people who are tired of watching bankers pay themselves multi million dollar bonuses while they struggle to survive.

It is people who are outraged that the architects of this economic disaster are being REWARDED because they are "too big to fail" while the rest of America struggles.

You are SOOOOOOOO out of touch with what people are feeling right now if you think this election came down to a handful of miscreants. Your marginalization is similar to that the DLC issues about the left, and just as full of shit.

[Ken Burch]

16. If they wanted to vote against the bankers, why vote for the party OF the bankers?

They voted for the guy who's side of the aisle would give the bankers even MORE, and then wouldn't ask for any of it back.

Your post would be valid if, say, a Green or socialist candidate had taken 20%...but nobody could've thought voting for Brown would stick it to the bankers, for fcuk's sake.

And in a DECENT state, the "curling iron" outburst would have DESTROYED Brown's campaign.

[sendero]

19. News flash..

... as of last november, the Dems ARE the party of the bankers. Get a fucking clue already. We bailed out GS because GS has infected our government.

People voted last Nov to END THAT, and WE DIDN'T, NOT AT ALL. That is the entire problem.

[krabigirl]

22. Wow, so they vote Republican? Yeah, that makes sense!

idiots

[RedCloud]

18. Maybe we should tea bag repugs and clamor for more intelligence from them,

Or just fucking go nuts as that seems to mobilize people who have pent up shit.

[PDJane]

21. I've been watching from the beginning.

I'm going to tell you that this decision has simply confirmed my opinion that a majority of Americans vote for pretty, without a clue what's behind the face, or that they're ignorant enough that their voter registration card should be taken away.

This man voted for health care in his own state, but will vote against health care reform for the country. There has to be a better way to deal with the excess population than having 43,000 poor people die unnecessarily every year.

Fiscal conservatives will destroy what Matthews calls 'entitlement' programmes, i.e., anything that keeps people from starving on the streets.

He voted against aid to 9/11 recovery workers because it was too expensive; didn't seem to hamper his efforts to build a golf course in his area, however.

He tried to deny emergency contraception to rape victims. In 2005, Brown sponsored a legislative amendment that would have allowed medical personnel to deny emergency contraception to rape victims if it "conflicts with a sincerely held religious belief." The amendment didn’t pass, but Brown owned it. It was attached to a bill that he ultimately voted for, which required emergency rooms to provide contraceptives to rape victims.

He made the claim that Obama was born out of wedlock. That was on Rachel Maddow last night.

He has joined with the tea party bunch, appeared at their rallies......and then tried to deny any affiliation with them.

He wants a constitutional ban on gay marriage. He has said that two women raising a child is 'not normal.' He should get out a bit more.

He opposes a fee to get bailout money back from big banks.

Oh, yeah, he's posed nude for playgirl.....at least his mouth was shut during that episode, and they didn't give us a picture of the calesthenics involved in putting his foot in his mouth, although that might have been interesting.


What in the name of all that is holy or unholy posessed the people of mass. to vote this idiot in? I don't like Coakley's attitude, so I'll show her and vote for this twerp?

What in hell is in the water down there?