https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2010/01/14/martha-coakley-disses-fenway-park-shaking-hands-with-bostonians-no-really/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 01:31:42 -0400<![CDATA[Given the serial fiascoes of the Martha Coakley for Senate campaign &#8211; veering from gaffe (her claim that there are no terrorists in Afghanistan) to comedy (misspelling her own state&#8217;s name in an attack ad) to ham-handedness (a staffer barrelling over a Weekly Standard reporter trying to ask about the Afghanistan gaffe) to outright panic in her communications with national Democrats, who are now tapping into their House campaign fund to prop her up &#8211; you would think, five days before Election Day, that the second coming of Shannon O&#8217;Brien has run out of ways to hand Scott Brown an upset victory in the race for what was for decades Ted Kennedy&#8217;s Senate seat (but, as Brown has reminded us, remains the people&#8217;s seat to do with as they wish).]]>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:15:02 -0500<![CDATA[Dan McLaughlin]]>https://redstate.com/dan_mclaughlin/2010/01/14/martha-coakley-disses-fenway-park-shaking-hands-with-bostonians-no-really-n41130