Pot Luck Dinner
--Who Knows What Will End Up On The Table?

I think the special election held in Massachusetts yesterday was more a referendum on Martha Coakley than anything to do with Barack Obama or national health care reform--despite what Sean Hannity and the rest of the talking knuckle-heads on the national new programs are saying. What else do they have to say? 'We're spending all night covering an election in Massachusetts but it really doesn't mean a whole lot outside of Massachusetts?'..Of course they over blow it. Why? Because there are a dozen news channels that need to soak up enough advertising to pay Wolf Blitzer and the jackass who repeatedly says 'no-spin' on his foolish right-wing opinion show (can not remember his name because he is a pointless, hollow fleck of shit). But I digress.

Martha spent a good amount of money on attack ads. We all know you can get away with this these days--UNLESS YOU ARE INVOLVED IN THE ONLY ELECTION GOING AND THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE GOING FOR YOU IS THE DEMOCRATIC LEGACY OF YOUR STATE AND THE SEAT.



It was the wrong angle Martha and you never readjusted the plan even after polls clearly showed you were slipping.

There were a variety of areas to exploit Scott Brown which she neglected. For example...he is pretty slippery on the social issues that typically bring the churchies out. He is pretty obviously anti-gay marriage and pro-abortion. Why didn't she pound him there to get him to commit or get off the pot? I did hear about a few ads she ran that were grossly exaggerated and contrived; taking such a weak shot made it easy to deflect. The social issues are usually the rope with which idiot right wingers hang themselves in the eyes of 'book-readers and what such'.

Also, she was DA of a great state and was involved in some big cases--she could have spent money telling us about that
'I put that baby-shaking little British au pair behind bars because I don't tolerate baby-shaking!'.

Or even just run adds pointing out that Scott Brown is inexperienced and hasn't really done JACK-SHIT. You don't have to be Fellini to find a way to undermine a guy who has such little experience.

Perhaps the biggest miss was (and I hate to steal this from the pundits, but it is true) that she never really identified herself to the public in any big way. All Scott Brown had to do was defend himself against the attack ads and he was seen as the bigger person. He was just trying to avoid getting pushed around by an old lady with a big war chest. She did seem to hover above us, apparently expecting the seat to get handed to her.

Unfortunately, it will take some time to fix this aberration--if no one brings anything to the pot luck dinner table we all go hungry I guess.