Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) lashed out at Scott Brown's Massachusetts senatorial campaign on Monday for adopting "intimidation tactics" that he deemed "reminiscent of the dangerous atmosphere of Sarah Palin's 2008 campaign rallies."
In a post to his own site, Kerry insisted that reports of out-of-state tea party protesters showing up at Brown rallies, the vandalizing of Martha Coakley signs, and the threats of violence and rape directed at Coakley herself were "not how we do business in Massachusetts."
Since Sarah Palin burst onto the national scene we have seen this explosion of political dirty tricks and threats of violence following in her wake. This so-called Christian woman has awakened deeply held prejudices and barely contained rage, and provided a direction for it to be unleashed.
We saw it during the campaign, with signs calling Obama a Muslim and a terrorist.
We see it in the Teabagger rallies with signs that call the Democrats socialists and Obama a fascist.
We see it from her supporters on Facebook as they threaten the judges who ruled to keep public Tripp's custody case.
I, my fellow Alaskan bloggers, and others have seen it unleashed in threatening e-mails and calls to our place of employment in an attempt to shut us up.
And now we see the same tactics in Massachusetts.
In the case of Brown v. Coakley, there have been several incidents that have party members somewhere between concerned and outraged. On Sunday, an attendee at a Brown event called for the candidate to stick a curling iron up Coakley's butt. The next day, a comment was left on Facebook from a woman hoping that Coakley would get shot.
So look, if you live in Massachusetts run, don't walk, to your nearest polling place and vote to protect the legacy of Ted Kennedy from these hate filled, anti-American thugs. If they win there, they will be more energized then ever and stopping them in the future will be just that much harder.
Our country is much too good to allow the tactics of the likes of Sarah Palin to prevail. We stopped her here in Alaska, so now it is up to the fine folks in Massachusetts to follow our lead.
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ReplyDeletePalin Says Fox Deal Wouldn't Keep Her From Running in 2012
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/01/19/palin-says-fox-deal-wouldnt-keep-her-from-running-in-2012/
BE AFRAID - OR THRILLED, the idiot has spoken.
I just HAD TO come back and post this comment from same link:
ReplyDelete"The only people who despise her are chumps like yourself....because
she speaks the TRUTH...and you chumps can't handle the truth....
because the truth..."OH SO HURTS"....doesn't it?!
I would support her in a heart beat.....because Obama has done a
good job at destroying this great country of ours....yeah; so what
if he inherited a deficit that Bush left behind; Yo man wanted this
gig...and he got it....but instead of making it better...yo man made
it "WORSE"....and he isn't through making it worse; the man is foaming
at the mouth with power; he needs to be stopped before we are all out
on the streets begging for work and food! But of course you dopes don't
see that; or don't want to see it...because you dimwits are so arrogant
and ignorant....it's shameful....!!! Obamas' days are sooo numbered!!!!
GO SARAH PALIN....GO SCOTT BROWN....!!!!
You rotten libs are TOAST!!!"
Gotta love the constant namecalling and such.
so this is the best ma. can do? surely doesn't bode well.
ReplyDeleteI am worried about this MA election and what it portends for our nation if Brown wins.
ReplyDeleteCoakley might not be the most charismatic candidate, but why should that mean more than her credentials?
Why are MA voters so apathetic? The forecast is for about half of the registered voters to show up. Those voters (about 2.2 million of the over 4 million eligible to vote) will truly have an impact on health care and all other progressive issues for the entire country.
Just being too lazy to take the time to vote for a candidate is no excuse.
I am exhausted from going to health care reform rallies in all types of weather, writing emails, sending faxes, making calls and generally trying to educate misinformed or incurious colleagues, but I can still drag myself out to vote. Voting is the only real tool, the only real hope we have of getting the type of government we want and need.
Most of us don't have enough money to influence things so unless we band together with our donations and our votes, we go backward.
I no longer have any patience for anyone who wants change but won't get off his or her bottom to go out and vote for change. I am getting angry, not just at the self-absorbed politicians who might favor corporations and large contributors, but am also getting very angry at self-absorbed voters who simply won't make the effort to vote in local, state or national elections unless there ii is a Presidential election year.
Anyone else tired of this crap? Sorry to use profanity, but honestly, I am fed up. I cannot listen to people gripe about their plight when they won't bother to vote. - Ks Sunflower
Seriously, these political parties need to remember "civil discourse"
ReplyDeleteand start discussions on the ISSUES
There is too much wasted time with mob mentality preventing possible "productive results or solutions"
As most folks who actually know her can attest, Martha Coakley is not a dimwit or lacking in charisma. Do not believe what the teabaggers tell you on those two points. Coakley is no s'error palin.
ReplyDeleteIf her campaign has performed poorly, it is because of the idiots who are running her campaign. The same thing happened to her once before. But she did not learn her lesson, and it is because of that unlearned lesson that MA is where it is now.
Coakley is a good candidate and she will do a good job as Kennedy's replacement. She is not just a vote on healthcare.
Scott Brown on the other hand... he's truly representative of his followers.
Gryphen, I'm sorry to say this, but you could have brought her down and didn't. Now look where we are. This falls squarely on the shoulders of Alaskan bloogers.
ReplyDeleteI know you are loyal to your sources, but what about loyalty to the country?
Kerry is a friggin trouble maker. You can just taste his desperation.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone notice on Bree's page Scarah's twitter she calls Brown an Independant, I thought he was a Repub? I guess she doesn't known the diff!! DUH!!
ReplyDeleteDear Trolls,
ReplyDeleteAfter the Massachusetts election tonight, President Barack Hussein Obama will still live at the White House in Washington, DC.
Suck it up, buttercup!
I cannot believe that the Democratic Party in MA has been so blind or as someone just said on MSNBC "asleep at the switch". This is total insanity that Coakley was so complacent that she thought just because she was a Democrat she didn't have to do anything to secure Senator Kennedy's seat. I know the voters in MA are pissed off but I hope they do not just sit this one out to prove a point. This makes me sick, sick, sick. I too, hope the people in Massachusetts do indeed follow Alaska and stop the tactics of Palin, Brown and Rethuglicans.
ReplyDeleteanon @8:38,
ReplyDeleteI just read that Obama wants 1.35 billion for education. I sure hope that the poster of that comment can benefit from it.
I used to live in Mass and happened to be there this weekend so I can share some interesting tidbits about this election.
ReplyDeleteFirst, if Coakley is the best that the Mass Dems can do, obviously they need to regroup after depending on the Kennedy powerhouse for so long. If Brown is elected, it will ultimately create a strong reaction and the pendulum will likely shift in a big way the next time around. Furthermore, following Alaskan's lead in unmasking SP, I bet the good folks of Mass. will keep a fire under Mr. Brown.
Second, in addition to the above mischief described in Gryphen's post-- there is more. The ballot will have a third party candidate who's name is..... Kennedy and is NO relationship to THE Kennedys of Mass. So this has Rove/Cheney-type operation written all over it. It's clearly a tactic to draw confused voters away from Coakley.
Massachusetts is a wonderful place, it will be very interesting to watch how this all comes out.
I live in Ma and voted for Coakley. I can not believe how short people's memories are. 8 years of hell, we expect President Obama to fix it all in one year, and then to dare vote a person that has ties to tea parties makes me ill.
ReplyDeleteI advocated for President Obama. Made phone calls held signs. If the people of Ma do this after how hard Ted Kenndedy fought for us I don't know what to say.
I know the trolls are on a diet here but no matter what happens today. Palin will never be President.I still think people are not that insane. Even Faux will be rid of her soon. So the laugh is on your trolls.
Don't forget that MA is the same state that relected Mr. Magic Underpants as governor, too, also.
ReplyDeleteI think some voters (and yes, there are uninformed ones everywhere) might think Scott Brown is Kennedyesque, unfortunately. Not quite the bloodline, of course, but because the RW is so hypocritical, the Cosmo spread won't hurt him at all--he's a Republican, y'all!
It's pretty obvious by the closeness of this race that either MA is losing its progressive base, or people are lying about being flip-floppers.
Grandma68
Hey all Americans who want a better quality of life, come to Canada.
ReplyDeleteWe'll take as many of you as want to come.
Guess what? Palin is going on Fox tonight to ANALYZE the MA election results (I think on greta's show).
ReplyDeleteIF she tries to "analyze" vs. read a prepared statement, get ready for major virtol/word salad.
My guess is she will read something written by the producers.
If not - then still another trainwreck in action.
Scott Brown's candidacy and campaign is what we can expect in every state from now on. The TeaBaggers are going to take over unless...each and every one of us does all that we can.
ReplyDeleteSarah publicly endorsed Brown, so did he TeaBaggers and yet he's still going to win!! His supporters have been on FB for weeks begging for her to endorse him and begging others to work phone banks, etc. I guess those tactics are working. Makes me sick. Sick
@dsmyre -
ReplyDeleteDear Trolls,
After the Massachusetts election tonight, President Barack Hussein Obama will still live at the White House in Washington, DC.
Suck it up, buttercup!
Bravo! This bears repeating. Hope you don't mind if I spread it around. Thanks.
Dear Anon 12:28. Thanks for the invite! :) We may have to keep that in mind if the creeps have their way.
ReplyDeleteDear Trolls...Suck it up ButterCup!
ReplyDeleteplan B...if Martha doesn't win the special election...Nancy say's“Let’s remove all doubt,” she added. “We will have health care one way or another.”
Yep....JUST DO IT!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/health/policy/19health.html?hp
Don't know if this has been posted yet Gryphen, but looks like there is trouble in Teabagger Convention Land with some grifting off the proceeds going on by top level organizers. Much said about the Queen in this one. No wonder she chose to go with them instead of CPAC, they're grifters too.
ReplyDeleteYou're a grifter
I'm a grifter
We ought to get together, I like the way you think.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/1/19/826914/-Nashville-Teabagging-Event-Erupts-Over-Accusations-of-Grifting-by-Organizer
I'm a Massachusetts voter too, and just got back from voting for Coakley. The polling place was very hard to get to -- big traffic jam in a place that never has traffic jams at all! I agree that the Dems were a bit too complacent until about a week ago. I have personally had at least a dozen robocalls plus numerous in person calls. Many of us are trying very hard to make sure Brown doesn't win...that would be a travesty.
ReplyDeleteI just read an opinion piece by Kevin Cullen for the Boston Globe.[http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/01/19/for_coakley_ominous_sign/ by Kevin Cullen]
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting, but the real emphasis should be on reading the comments posted about it. At present there are almost 300 comments - most of them full of anger and vitriole towards the paper, the author, liberals, Democrats, et cetera.
It was amazing how many comments were empty - with the explanation that the comment had been removed. That's how much creepy stuff is out there ready to burst.
This is the legacy of the Rove-Bush-Cheney years with the extra push by Beck-Limbaugh-Palin and other Faux News Xperts: hate, raging, unthinking hate.
We cannot sit back and let this movement get any larger or we might as well give up. To me, these folks represent more of a threat to the America I love than any Islamic extremists. Our home-grown, white, bigoted ultra-conservatives will destroy our country from within if we don't keep standing up against them.
It is so discouraging and exhausting to keep trying to keep sanity and civility as a part of our country's culture but it is necessary between the fanatics and the apathetic. We may be our own last hope.
@anon 8:38 - Her fans are as mean, nasty and ignorant as Palin.
ReplyDeleteBrown calls himself an "independent" Republican, but independent is the only wording you will see in his ads. He has voted with the Repubs 96% of the time - sounds like a regular ol' Republican to me.
ReplyDeleteViolence, fomenting violence, and threats of violence have no place in a democracy and can destroy it.
ReplyDeleteIt must be stopped.
Isn't Massachusetts the state with the worst health care system, one in which people are fined who can't pay and the costs have gone up more than all other states? Why wouldn't the people be ready to get rid of that?
Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteDear Anon 12:28. Thanks for the invite! :) We may have to keep that in mind if the creeps have their way.
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I've loved Canada since I was 5 and visited Vancouver the first time of 3 and Montreal as well. Have liked all the Canadians I've met. Americans, not all of them. Thanks for the invite!
Voter turn out is likely to be highter than 70% and it was a messy snowy/rainy day. We are not apothetic. However, I'm not sure what the high percentage means. Keeping finger crossedl
ReplyDeleteMA Race:
ReplyDeleteRocket Science and Diebold Mysteries Rather Than Simple, Observable Democracy in MA Senate Race
Election experts file public records requests; Pre-marked ballots reported in two towns...
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7655
Coakley Campaign Sounding Alarm On Ballots Irregularities
Reports Of Ballots Pre-Marked For GOPer Scott Brown
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/01/coakley-campaign-to-sound-alarm-on-reported-ballots-pre-marked-for-scott-brown.php?ref=fpa
Amazing how many trolls are out in force today on all sites--no wonder the GOP coffers are running low! ;-) They've also been calling progressive radio shows--yet again--with scripted comments (you can tell by the way the nervous callers are reciting them). Fortunately, the hosts are picking up on it immediately. All to discourage Dems from going to the polls in MA. I'm still holding out hope that few are buying into this barrage of misinformation, theatrics and hysteria--the turnout has been much better than expected, so we'll see.
ReplyDeleteAlso (too) the race may not be over tonight or even tomorrow as the bulk of the voting machines being used are supposedly hackable, and there are some questionable tactics being reported (refer to the commenter above). Perhaps this window will allow the HC bill to be pushed through.
And, as someone else mentioned above, Pres O is STILL in the WH and will be, no matter the outcome in Massachusetts. IMO, this race is just doing more to expose the GOP machine for the childish, malevolent--and monied--operation it is. Despite all the hype, I think this is slowly starting to sink in, judging from the people I've spoken to this past weekend (in rural PA, believe it or not). And, BTW Sarah--them's I spoke to DON'T LIKE YOU. AT ALL.
And many, many thanks for the generous invitation to move to Canada! You guys up North must be shaking your heads in disbelief over all this.
Another Ma voter checking in. Some context:
ReplyDeleteBoston Globe commenters are, generally speaking, hateful conservatives trying to get a rise out of more liberalreaders.
The curling iron threat is related to achild sexcrime case Coakley investigated. Not a random threat, and exceedingly hateful.
I saw a lot of Coakley signs in my liberal town, but a lot of Brown signs too. Just holding my breath now, hoping brown supporters turn out to be a loud-mouthed minority.
Onething, MA has excellent health care, but Expensive. Everyone here wantsto see a world-famous specialist at one of our many outstanding academic medical centers. The state is working on the next step inuniversal care, bundling paymentsto control costs.
ReplyDeletePeople who earn above a certainincome do have to pay a small penalty if they choose not to carry insurance. The whole premise of insurance is that it is leastexpensive when everyone carries it. For those of us lucky enough to have insurance, there was nochange withthe law.
I'm a faithful reader, Gryphen, but exactly who in Alaska stopped Palin? And when? If you all stopped her in Alaska, I sure missed it.
ReplyDeleteOh boy here we go again and isnh't diebold the same one that had things wrong during the presidential election so they had to use paper ballots ?
ReplyDeleteSharon in Florida said...
ReplyDeleteScott Brown's candidacy and campaign is what we can expect in every state from now on.
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You are exactly correct, Sharon. We are already seeing it in pennsyltucky - a state with the highest number of known hate groups in the country. Even mainstream republicans are showing some hesitation in registering to run because they know will be hounded and hammered by teabaggers running under the banner of freedom and pretending to be republicans.
Time to shut them mofo's down. I don't know about anyone else, but I am not ready to live in an Iran-type country.
This is the same way things ran in the special NY dist 23 election held late in 2009. . . .the crazeeees have big mouths(we need to be louder) to make the uninformed voter think this is the popular way to go...but this crazy crap(palin,beck were involved) turned NY dist 23 democrat for the first time in over 150 years. . . .
ReplyDeleteThere's too many unregistered independants in Mass, and that was Coakley's poorly managed campaign's achille's heel. Complacentcy is the worst type of apathy, Coakley basically handed the votes over and took a christmas break, and gave Brown an unchallenged lead.
ReplyDeletePlease, Alaskans, get the dirt out on Palin and bring her down!
ReplyDeleteThat saying.."the bigger they are, the harder they fall", well what are you waiting for? Let's have a drumroll for Sarah/Todd expose....please.
ReplyDeleteBTW, if you need factcheckers, we can quickly get the job done for you.
I for one am tired of feeling helpless.
Evidently, Mass voters prefer males, with hair, and symmetrical smiles. Dem's look around. Find someone who looks like this. Run that guy. Give them what they want. Start today. It's unfortunate but even in that historic district we still have to give them a white man, with hair, in shape (sort of) and symmetrical smile. Get busy. Give 'em what they want just let them choose a democrat next time. :(
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