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Calibration check on Brown/Coakley.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  January 18th, 2010 at 02:00 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

You’re at the MLK Day Breakfast in Boston and the two candidates for Senate are talking.

  • One candidate uses the opportunity to make a stump speech.
  • The other candidate – who did not – later criticizes the first one as being ‘inappropriate.’
  • One candidate ‘received polite, seated applause’ but enjoyed a ‘tepid reception at a stronghold of Democratic politics.’
  • The other is ‘received warmly, shaking hands and taking pictures with well-wishers during pauses in the morning’s event.’

Quick: which one is the Democratic candidate, and which other is the Republican one?

Yes, indeed, we live in interesting times.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to Moe Lane.

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  • swami7774

    He wasn’t asked to. Coakley was, and did. The organizers are now scrambling to defend her use of the forum as a political event.

    Can’t remember this happening before.

  • USNJIMRET
  • ceili_dancer

    n/t

  • David_Rasbold

    as it looks increasingly like the result, look for the media and Obama to pivot the whole storyline to Haiti. I can see the responses now to questions about the impact of Brown on the political landscape: “We believe that it’s more important to focus on the human suffering of those in Haiti, than to talk about the politics of an election in Mass. Our priorities are with the families of those… blah, blah, blah.”

    Nevermind, that the dems sent Clinton and Obama up there to campaign in the middle of the Haiti response effort. Despite that Obama and his cronies are looking to use Haiti as a political football to advance their own political agenda.

    Haiti is to Obama and dems a potentially useful distraction to avoid the tough questions and confront the reality of their disastrous policies.

    Sad that Obama and dems would use the suffering of Haitians for political theatre and kabuki. But, this is of no suprise.

  • Mary Beth

    Those rules only apply to the GOP…not to the elite.

    If Brown had spoken, it would have been entirely inappropriate and worthy of scorn to politicize the event.

    But this is MAH-THA! She’s a Democrat. Rules don’t apply to Democrats.

  • SteveLA

    Harry Reid was unavailable to speak to this group too, in that special dialect he is so conversant in.

    I was going to post a famous scene from Airplane dealing with dialects, but as Nancy once said…”Just say No”.

  • Section9

    Brown’s stock is going to rise astronomically within the Party if he wins. Assume Rubio wins in Florida and Brown pursues a “center-right”, small-government posture in Mass that makes him popular with the voters, despite his pro-choice position. Do he and Rubio square off down the road?

    That’s the way it looks to me early on.

  • lostconservativeintaxachusetts

    He got up to speak and made it political as well… I’ll summarize:

    “I’m only going to remind you to vote tomorrow. I don’t need to tell you who to vote for. We all know who our President needs as the next Senator from Massachusetts”

  • 6eorge Jetson

    exposure would have helped Joakley.

    The Haiti media attention might have helped Marcia’s election prospects more if the media had not already covered Joakley.

    For Scott Brown, any coverage of Joakley is good coverage. She just can’t help it.

  • 6eorge Jetson

    by the content of their character, and not their color (of their party, in this case), may be at hand here.

    In the depth of their capabilities, Brown is a slam dunk.

  • SteveLA

    Section9

    If Brown wins, he’ll probably play well in the non social conservative areas of the country, like CA and other areas of the country. Rubio if he wins the Florida seat will appeal in the South, maybe the SE where there is a large Hispanic population.

    Coming into the election of fall in 2010, Brown can be a great asset to R’s running against D’s where the seat changed in the last election, so he’ll probably gain a few political chits from being out on the stump. Rubio having not won his election is going to have to stay home in Florida to win his race, so not so much to gain at the national level. 2012 will be very interesting to see how both play across the country as the “new face” of the R brand.

    If, as I suspect, both Brown and Rubio are smart, there will be no “square off” in the future. They’ll agree on what they agree on and respectfully disagree on other issues like abortion and work together to beat Democrats.

  • http://beaglescout.wordpress.com Beaglescout

    If that is what Section9 is talking about. We certainly should not be running a sitting senator any time in the near future.

  • SteveLA

    I see both serving a long time in the Senate, the next generation so to speak.

    My comments went to doing the hard work I expect both to do at some point in the future; getting out on the stump for down ticket politicians which is part of party building. There is no big gun elected R right now, that can excite people and I can’t see any sitting R that would do a lot of good in down ticket races right now. Despite what Bots from any of the factions on this side of the ditch might say, nothing like a winner of a Senate seat, especially one once held by the “Liberal Lion of the Senate” to help win races.

  • dnlchisholm

    Update – The Brewing Cauldron in Massachusetts: htp://mittromneycentral.com/2010/01/18/update-the-brewing-cauldron-in-massachusetts/