Wait......wait.....Coakley LITERALLY went on vacation!?!?!?!?!?!?

[uponit7771]

My friend is sayin she got paid...or somethin....no damn way...

Really?

TIA

Edit: K, it's real, I HONESTLY and SINCERELY thought people were being figurative by saying she went on vacation but Coakley LITERALLY went on vacation while a centerfold model worked his but off...

My goodness1!! Were was the DNC?!?!!!?

[Justitia]

oh please, not with this bullshit circular firing squad already. -eom

[uponit7771]

5. I'm honestly asking, I thought folk were being figurative!!!!

[KittyWampus]

10. this isn't circular. It's aiming at the one person who had a duty to perform and bailed out.

[Justitia]

13. So, you got the official Rahm talking points too. Just released: "it's all ONE person's fault"

Yeah right. Just like Rahm, ducking responsibility for anything - always.

[KittyWampus]

16. apparently you got Hamsher's note and everything is Rahm's fault. Coakley did not campaign

you can't blame that on Rahm.

[Justitia]

18. Guess you aren't watching MSNBC just now. Rahm HIMSELF sent out the criticism points.

Nice try sliming Hamsher, tho.

Rahm appreciates your DLC support.

[uponit7771]

21. She....went ......on.......vacation!!! During a special election with an astroturf backed candidate!

[Justitia]

25. Yeah, I heard it the first few exclamation points ago!!!!

If you think a vacation sunk a Democratic seat we held for 30+ yrs, explain George Always-On-Vacation, Yet-Elected-Twice Bush to me.

[uponit7771]

30. Like Maddow said; " ...it was message not policy..." the DNC doesn't get the right message out and..

...it looks like while she was on vacation Brown used his media inside (his wifes resources) to define Coakley and the sexist (no a woman could NEVER get away with what he did) pics didn't hurt for notoriaty either.

Letting reThugs define dems have ALWAYS been the dems downfall; in message politics if you counterpunching your losing.

[uponit7771]

17. Dude!!! If you go on vacation during a special election while your candidate has astroturf backing..

...and happens to be a centerfold model then ....well....shit...

[Justitia]

19. "dude"! I'm sure that's totally it! The winner is a total hottie who stays home at Christmas!

:eyes:

[KittyWampus]

23. and your position, it was all Rahm's fault. On some level, you have to know how silly that is.

[Justitia]

28. Who the fuck said that? I acknowledged the talking points had been sent out by Rahm.

Per MSNBC.

But, go ahead and defend him.

[uponit7771]

24. You forgot the astroturfed backing of Brown....he had the money and the press...where was the DNC?!!

[Justitia]

29. That's a point of agreement. -eom

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Yep. Over the Christmas Holidays..she was on an actual VACATION.

This was while the Brown folks were campaigning their asses off.

[uponit7771]

2. WHAT THE FUCK!?

[itsrobert]

6. I'm now hearing it was after the New Year's holiday.

Strange way to honor Ted Kennedy.

[napi21]

3. As I understand it, she believed people didn't want her bothering them during

the Holidays, and she did go on vacation.

[uponit7771]

4. You guys are bs'ing.......WHAT DID THEY EXPECT?!?!?!?!

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

20. Sort of amazing, isn't it?

Couple of guys on Hardball (one Dem, one Rep) both agreed that this is probably the most poorly-run campaign in modern political history.

This isn't meant to be the proverbial circular firing squad, but Coakley and her staff bungled what should have been a slam dunk. She had a 20-30 point lead only a month ago and squandered it.

[uponit7771]

33. Who was her campaign manager?! That person should be put out of the business for this screw up! TIA

[TheWraith]

7. Yeah, in the middle of a special election. Idiotic, no? nt

[KittyWampus]

8. Yup. She was running against a teabagger backed by vilest scum of the earth

and she did not campaign.

What I've read about her tonight has me apoplectic.

[uponit7771]

11. Come on yaw....yaw've GOT to be kidding!!! Where was the DNC?!!?!?!!?!?>?!!?>!?!?!

[KittyWampus]

14. that's the next question. And I honestly wonder if Coakley ever even asked Washington for help

or if THEY finally stepped in.

[uponit7771]

15. I don't think Obama would've withheld any help at all, but the DNC's daily tracking would've kept...

...them in the know...where the FUCK was simple political science and math!?!?

[leeroysphitz]

9. She may have been out to lunch sometimes as well... n/t

[uponit7771]

12. wow....my goodness, someone in the DNC's head should roll over....wow...who was her manager?!?!?!?

[Canuckistanian]

22. Hey, those reservations are hard to get

She might have missed her chance for another month, so she had to confirm right away.

[uponit7771]

26. mmmmmmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyy goodness!!!! The head of the DNC should be kicked in the ass too IMHO

...their daily tracking could've seen she was in trouble and told her SOMETHING

[Tailormyst]

27. She was a horrible candidate.

She was the one the "powers that be" annointed. They were so very, very wrong.

[avaistheone1]

31. The powers?

Usually the powers on the Senatorial races are the DLC...

[Tailormyst]

yup

And once they decided she would be the one, the other primary candidates just could not compete, although Mike did put up a good fight. That's how it seemed to me anyway.

[Justitia]

32. How about the voters that voted for Brown? No responsibility for electing a loser TeaBagger?

Did someone hold a gun to their heads?

[Tailormyst]

38. Of course they are responsible

But if the party does not look at this race and learn from it, what do you think is going to happen come November?

[Justitia]

40. I totally agree. Which is why it is counterproductive to try to scapegoat one person.

It's clearly bigger than that.

[Tailormyst]

41. it's not one person- it was the whole "machine"

They chose her to be the candidate. She was a horrible horrible choice. She ran a terrible campaign, had terrible help from the national party (if any) Dozens of things went wrong to create today's results. If we don't fix things, November will be ugly.

[TheBigotBasher]

42. The "powers that be"

did not want her, she had a good Primary campaign and a very poor election. Going on holiday during an election makes you look entitled to the seat.

[Tailormyst]

44. Yup- she thought winning the primary won her the seat.

She was so confident she switched her position on HCR right after the primary. It was a big mistake. I know 3 people who voted against her for that reason.

[greatscott15]

34. About Obama

Unfortunately this was a referendum on Obama (primarily healthcare). Even if she ran a good campaign, I think she would have lost by 1-2 points still.

If economy doesn't recover, Obama may have real trouble in 2012.

This is a political equivalent of the Haiti earthquake

[uponit7771]

35. Ummm, looking at the facts this person was a VERY VERY STUPID candidate and the last couple of

..times the dems won it was never a referendum on reThugs so I don't believe our very sloppy M$M memes.

The economy will recover and all Obama has to do is point to reThug policies that got us here and Obama never had 60 votes to begin with so agenda wise he'll get what he wants passed.

[TheBigotBasher]

47. This is a 100k majority

with a low turn out in the best areas. This is bad campaigning. How many votes were lost by running a candidate who pretty much thought the election was over when she won the Primaries? So much so she went on holiday during the campaign?

[MiniMe]

36. More than that, she called Curt Schilling a Yankees fan, and

she made fun of Brown for shaking hands at Fenway Park when it was cold outside. She only made 19 appearances between the primary and the special election, Brown made at least 60.

[uponit7771]

37. My goodnes, ....she was beat on the ground and he had inroads to themedia...I'm still askin...

...where was the DNC throughout all of this.

Simple day tracking could've told them SOMETHING wasn't right...

[Jennicut]

39. Even if people want to blame Obama and Rahm for everything, Coakley needed to campaign better.

And she didn't. And that hurt her, too.

[Tailormyst]

43. Its no one persons fault, it is an indicator of something really broken within the party

I have alot of thoughts on what that is, but tonight I am not calm enough to put it into the right words.

[uponit7771]

46. It's not ALL one person fault but if you go on vacation during a special election with an astroturf

...backed candidate then you'd share a lions portion of the onus.

[Zenlitened]

45. Trying to find a link for that, one that's not based on a quote from Scott Brown.

Having no luck.