After dining on a large plate of crow...

[MUAD_DIB]

I wish to apologize to those DUers whose opinions I believed to be faulty and scoffed at.

It is true that Coakley's campaign was less than vigorous. I voted for Capuano in the primary and supported Coakley; believing that no self-respecting Massachusetts residents would vote for a Republican to fill Ted's seat in large numbers.


I was wrong.


Now we have two years until we take the seat back. Let's hope that we do.


~Muaddib

[LakeSamish706]

1. The only way we will get the seat back is if we run somebody that is worthy of it

and will do the work in order to win it. Not go on vacation during the campaign.

[Recursion]

2. Khazei is our guy

Or somebody currently under the radar. As much as I like Capuano, anybody with as much time in Washington as him is damaged goods right now.

[Tesha]

3. Coakley would have done a great job for MA

she just doesn't have the glamour Brown does
she didn't have good advice on campaigning
she took the Democrats for granted
she was up against the "tax on health insurance"

oh, and she was honest...

[glowing]

4. Is it 2... or is it 6? 2 because of a special election or 6 because that is the normal # of years a

senator has.. and Obama and D.C. pushed to get a dem into the senate seat for that 60th vote on HCR... it was a wasted effort since nothing moved and the bill stinks to everyone as an insurance/ pharma give-away. They would have had better numbers had they not pushed for the law to be changed just for the Dems.. they should have gone thru with the special election only; instead of tampering. When D.C. messes with in-state issues, it looks and feels corrupt no matter what party does this... And honestly, what does MA have to worry about... They have state mandated health care. Why do they want to pay more for the rest of the country to have what they must take themselves. As far as I have heard from people I know in the state, the premiums keep rising and the amt that is covered is less.. and they messed with other social programs to help pay for the reforms which hurts the people who can least afford it. If MA was looking at a Medicare for all policy that would actually help them, then Coakley might have had a better chance.. But Brown's message of no change is actually better for MA residents... I would think Jobs and help with mortgages would be a bigger issue for MA residents. MA has seen their jobs first taken down south to avoid Union wages and then taken out of the country; first to Mexico and then to China. If they don't do something about the jobs/ trade issues, the dems are going to lose. Its a big deal. Most people understand NAFTA and the rest of the job hemorrhaging programs are all crap... What did we get in return, loss of jobs and poisoned, cheap crap merchandise in return.

[Tailormyst]

5. Maud'dib

After alot of thinking during a sleepless night, I am ready to start today. Do you know if Mike C. is thinking about running in 2012?