An eight-hour train ride on two hours sleep? Yeah, I can do that, for a “far-right teabagger”:
Martha Coakley is running to fill the rest of Ted Kennedy’s term, and her opponent is a far-right tea-bagger Republican. . . .
The special election is coming up on Tuesday, and it’s going to be close. Read Vicki’s message below, then make a contribution of $25 or more to Martha Coakley’s campaign today.
Thank you,
Chuck Schumer
(Hat-tip: Hot Air.) See? All Chuck asks is for Democrats to give him $25 or more to stop that “far-right teabagger” — and all I ask is for you to give me $25 or more so I can cover that “far-right teabagger” while he stomps Martha Coakley into whiny little liberal smithereens. We’re all teabaggers now! Some quick reads while I’m riding the rails:
Today’s contributors to the Shoe Leather Fund include Dudley in Richmond, Fredric in New Jersey, William in Falls Church and Nathan in Missouri. Here’s hoping you’ll chip in — every $5 or $10 helps pay the medical expenses if I get beat up by Coakley’s staff.
For the next six days, I’ll be crashing on the Massachusetts sofa of Da Tech Guy in between our road excursions to cover Scott Brown’s final push to victory Jan. 19.
Brown has been caught in a vice. His support from teabaggers was critical to becoming competitive . . .
On the other hand, that conservative support has come at a cost. . . . The teabaggers demand ideological purity, and he’s had to deliver. . . .
That interpretation is nonsense, of course. I hashed this out yesterday: It’s Massachusetts, and Brown’s conservative supporters understand that. Nobody expects Scott Brown to vote like Jim DeMint or Tom Coburn.
Acceptance of the Kos spin requires a false perception of “teabaggers” and other conservatives as rigid, irrational, ill-informed fanatics. It also requires a severe misunderestimation of how broad-based the anti-Obama backlash really is, as Ed Morrissey says: “Democrats in Massachusetts appear demoralized, independents are fleeing, and it’s the GOP that has the energy at the moment.”
UPDATE: OK, wanted to get that posted as quickly as possible and now will fill in the background with updates. This incident had been mentioned in an earlier post, but as William Jacobson says, this photo could decide the election. Like the beating of Kenneth Gladney by SEIU thugs, it illustrates the blatant lawlessness of the Democratic Party in the Obama age.
UPDATE II: McCormack believes the goon who shoved him is Michael Meehan, an experienced political operative and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee staffer reportedly sent Monday “to assist the Coakley camp with messaging.”
UPDATE V: DSCCC spokesman Joseph GoebbelsBaghdad BobEric Schultz issues a statement: “It is no surprise that Washington Republicans are trying to use every dirty trick they have to throw the Coakley campaign off their stride . . .”
When McCormack asks the staffer whom he works for, the staffer replies, “I work for me” . . . which would be a sweet line if delivered by Clint Eastwood or a member of organized crime.
Hmmmm. Is he trying to say the Democratic Party is disorganized?
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One of those candidates is Florida 22nd District candidate — and my fellow Atlanta native — Allen West:
Long before he was a politician, the Republican candidate vying for Ted Kennedy’s U.S. Senate seat posed nude for the centerfold of Cosmo. Scott Brown won our “America’s Sexiest Man” contest and appeared in the June 1982 issue. In those days he was a 22-year-old law student at Boston College who was cramming for finals just days before stripping down for our photographer.
(Hat-tip: I Own the World.) This September item at Cosmo‘s Web site was almost certainly an opposition-research hit from the Coakley campaign. The Democratic idiots probably figured that the revelation that Brown had posed nude when he was 22 would hurt him with the “value voters.” But for every stuffy prude who was offended by the Cosmo pictures, the Republican candidate picked up at least three votes from chicks with a non-partisan admiration for his bod.
Hey, I can relate. The Great Speedo Scandal of 2009 failed to derail my quest for blogospheric success. Don’t hate me for my freedom.
UPDATE: You know who really digs a sexy right-wing dude? Little Miss Attila.Just sayin’ . . .
Darn that Ace! How does he always get the sexy nude beefcake photos before I do? It’s almost like he spends all his spare time looking for that stuff. But that makes no sense, because if that was the decisive factor, Charles Johnson would have had this photo before either Ace or even Hillbuzz.
Ad spending by the candidates, party committees and outside organizations in the final week of the Massachusetts Senate special election will go over $6 million . . . Scott Brown (R) dropping just short of $2 million in the final week while state Attorney General Martha Coakley (D) is spending $1.5 million. While Brown is outspending Coakley, Democratic-affiliated outside groups are making up the difference, with the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in for $831,000 and the Service Employees International Union spending $685,000 on ads. . . .
You might think that someone with such transparent ties to a brutally corrupt organization like SEIU would hesitate to make guilt-by-association smears. Think again:
Brown’s embrace of radical tea party groups for funding coincides nicely with his willingness to accept the millions in television ads from shadowy out-of-state organizations with links to Karl Rove
Speaking of desperation, I’m still rattling the tip jar for my Massachusetts trip. I’m hoping to leave Thursday and every $10 or $20 will help. Thanks to Eric in Arvada, Theodore in Stone Creek and Steve in Colorado Springs for their contributions to the Shoe Leather Fund yesterday.
Coakley slept through December, has an arrogant attitude of entitlement which must put off voters, is mired in the past with her Bush-Cheney Derangement Syndrome, and doesn’t seem to understand that the voters are pissed off at the political establishment of which she is a part. The optics of Coakley going to D.C. [Tuesday] for a lobbyist fundraiser are horrible.
On a private conference call with DNC chair Tim Kaine and top Dem donors this afternoon, Dem Senate candidate Martha Coakley acknowledged that GOPer Scott Brown’s surge was “frightening,” said top Dem donors had been complacent, and promised a last burst of TV ads to close out the race.
“It’s a little frightening how much traction he’s been able to get so quickly,” Coakley said on the call . . .
Coakley staffers said afterwards that they didn’t know who the guy was who was hassling McCormack in the video. Really? He was just a passerby who decided to push him into a sidewalk railing and demand his credentials?
Hassling a reporter and demanding credentials? These Coakley thugs are worse than the BCS fascists!
I’m amazed you’re not broadcasting live, showing us you’re “grieving”! That’s totally something trash like you would do!
And:
You should try and get custody of her daughter. That’d be GREAT publicity, all you crave in life!
In related celebrity lesbian news, a forthcoming movie, Chloe, “features 24-year-old Amanda Seyfried in a hot relationship with 49-year old Julianne Moore.” Because lesbian is the new black, I guess.
UPDATE: A commenter points out that Tila Tequila is, technically, bisexual — apparently, she’s only gay when there’s a profit motive. Also, she’s very eager for her Twitter followers to know about her latest interviews:
I interviewed with Radaronline.com & they did a 4 piece segment on me. 1st one goes up 2night. Then Tomorrow interview at EXTRA airs w/Mario
—6:12 a.m. ET
I only did these interviews to answer everyone’s questions. So many questions but no anwers . . .so I am here to give everyone the answers.
— 6:13 a.m. ET
Then once after ALL of these interviews airs, everyone knows the TRUTH, I can have my closure & start next chapter of my life. Im ready now.
— 6:14 a.m. ET
And you thought I was shameless!
UPDATE II: Just in case anyone actually gives a damn about Tila Tequila — and I can’t imagine why you would — Radar Online has now published its interview with the no-talent “star”:
In a tearful and emotional interview, reality TV star Tila Tequila opens up to RadarOnline.com exclusively about the heart breaking moment she discovered her beloved fiance, Johnson and Johnson heiress Casey Johnson, had died.
Visibly upset, with mascara running down her face, Tila tells RadarOnline.com the only reason she wasn’t with Casey at the time of her death was because Johnson had urged Tila to make up with her family and go home for the holidays.
It’s obvious that Tila holds herself, along with Casey’s family, to blame for the tragic death of the woman who Tila touchingly calls her “wifey”.
Wow. She was that close to a legal common-property relationship with a multi-millionaire heiress. No wonder she’s emotionally distraught.
Tila Tequila: The Only Celebrity Morally Inferior to Perez Hilton.
Today’s contributors to the Shoe Leather Fund include Dudley in Richmond, Fredric in New Jersey, William in Falls Church and Nathan in Missouri. Here’s hoping you’ll chip in — every $5 or $10 helps pay the medical expenses if I get beat up by Coakley’s staff.
