Subscribe to Moronmeter!Ah, I See, Martha Coakley is Just a ‘Bad Candidate’…
As a follow up to Friday’s post on the special election in Massachusetts to fill Ted Kennedy’s old Senate seat, it seems that the defense of choice for Democrats hedging their bets on Martha Coakley losing is that she is a ‘bad candidate’.
This is Democratic operative Bob Shrum from today’s Morning Joe:
One thing I find fascinating is the insistence by Democrats that it is better to elect a bad candidate and/or politician, just to preserve their power. It simply comes off as, “We don’t care about having good leaders, as long as we are the leaders.”
I don’t know about anyone else, but it doesn’t really make me inclined to vote for someone whose own party is saying she isn’t a good candidate.
Of course, I’m pretty sure Republicans would be saying the exact same thing if a usually reliable Republican seat was in danger of going over to the Democrats… “Don’t vote for the Democrat! Vote for our candidate, even though he sucks, he’s still a Republican!”
I can’t wait to see how this plays out – especially if it is a nail bitter.
It will be interesting to see Republicans screaming about any delays in seating Brown and Democrats trying everything they can to forestall it.
Kind of like the 2008 Minnesota Senatorial election, in reverse.
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