Quotes of the day
posted at 10:51 pm on January 14, 2010 by Allahpundit
“In October 2005, a Somerville police officer living in Melrose raped his 23-month-old niece with a hot object, most likely a curling iron.
“Keith Winfield, then 31, told police he was alone with the toddler that day and made additional statements that would ultimately be used to convict him.
“But in the aftermath of the crime, a Middlesex County grand jury overseen by Martha Coakley, then the district attorney, investigated without taking action. It was only after the toddler’s mother filed applications for criminal complaints that Coakley won grand jury indictments charging rape and assault and battery.
“Even then, nearly 10 months after the crime, Coakley’s office recommended that Winfield be released on personal recognizance, with no cash bail. He remained free until December 2007, when Coakley’s successor as district attorney won a conviction and two life terms.”
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Ken Pittman: Right, if you are a Catholic, and believe what the Pope teaches that any form of birth control is a sin. ah you don’t want to do that.
Martha Coakley: No we have a separation of church and state Ken, let’s be clear.
Ken Pittman: In the emergency room you still have your religious freedom.
Martha Coakley: (…stammering) The law says that people are allowed to have that. You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.
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This is a terrible woman. And it has nothing to do with politics.
BadgerHawk on January 14, 2010 at 10:53 PM
Hey, Coakley has her eye on the real dangers to America you wingnuts – teabaggers, catholics, and red sox fans.
18-1 on January 14, 2010 at 10:53 PM
Does she realize that Massachusetts is the second most Catholic state there is?
Between this, and the Fenway jab, she surely doesn’t expect to get elected.
Enoxo on January 14, 2010 at 10:54 PM
I’m going to experience an epic schadenfreude overdose next week.
DaveS on January 14, 2010 at 10:54 PM
Hopelessly adrift.
Starlink on January 14, 2010 at 10:54 PM
What an idiot.
Terrye on January 14, 2010 at 10:55 PM
Coakley is hearing The Brown Note.
heh
Jeff2161 on January 14, 2010 at 10:55 PM
So she’s incompetent. She’d fit right in the Odumbass administration.
txag92 on January 14, 2010 at 10:56 PM
I’m now convinced she’s purposely throwing this race so Obama can say her loss was because she was a really REALLY bad candidate, and that this in no way reflects on the nation’s view of Obamacare.
Weight of Glory on January 14, 2010 at 10:56 PM
Let’s not forget that this woman is cool with keeping innocent people behind bars if it will further her political career.
Honestly, how could an informed person vote for someone like this?
BadgerHawk on January 14, 2010 at 10:56 PM
And this is before Obamacare…
SouthernGent on January 14, 2010 at 10:56 PM
Thursday, January 14, 2010
A new poll in Boston:
“It’s a Brown-out,” said Paleologos, director of Suffolk’s Political Research Center. “It’s a massive change in the political landscape.”
The poll shows Brown, a state senator from Wrentham, besting Coakley, the state’s attorney general, by 50 percent to 46 percent, the first major survey to show Brown in the lead. Unenrolled long-shot Joseph L. Kennedy, an information technology executive with no relation to the famous family, gets 3 percent of the vote. Only 1 percent of voters were undecided.
Even if you’re a Democrat, somewhere deep down you know that Martha Coakley wasn’t what your party needed at this stage in the political cycle – a grim hack career pol embarrassingly stupid and inarticulate on matters domestic (if you’re religious, don’t work in an emergency room) and foreign (my sister can see the Middle East from her house) who reacts to awkward questions by complaining the press is stalking her and standing by as aides send them crashing to the sidewalk, and whose entire campaign has no rationale other than hereditary entitlement.
Jayrae on January 14, 2010 at 10:56 PM
PLEASE SEND DOUGH TO SCOTT BROWN. Defeat Martha
OmahaConservative on January 14, 2010 at 10:57 PM
The rest of the story is the cop’s father was a Teamster Boss who was/is a big Democrat fundraiser. So, in other words, she was “doing a favor.”
How do you think she got the Senate nomination? Lot’s of favors. Lot’s off people not prosecuted in return for support.
It all blew up right in their dirty, filthy, corrupt faces.
TheBigOldDog on January 14, 2010 at 10:57 PM
I HOPE SHE FAILS.
blatantblue on January 14, 2010 at 10:59 PM
A fitting successor to the Swimmer, whether she wins or not.
notagool on January 14, 2010 at 10:59 PM
Looks like ACORN is going to have whistle up twice as many ‘zombie votes’ as their previous estimate.
Hmmmmm.
Are there enough graveyards in Mass.?
CPT. Charles on January 14, 2010 at 11:00 PM
Has anyone calculated the ACORN factor in this one? It is still theirs to steal shamelessly ( Franken) cough……..
bbz123 on January 14, 2010 at 11:00 PM
It all blew up right in their dirty, filthy, corrupt faces.
TheBigOldDog on January 14, 2010 at 10:57 PM
because she didn’t have the Kennedy money to make it all go away.
unseen on January 14, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Seven Percent Solution on January 14, 2010 at 11:02 PM
Quit reading my mind bbz123 . . . ;)
CPT. Charles on January 14, 2010 at 11:02 PM
Sadly there are many ill-informed and just plain stupid people that vote and nothing can be done to change it.
thomasaur on January 14, 2010 at 11:02 PM
They got in when they were different people and times were different. Enough favors were owed to keep them in. Those days are over.
TheBigOldDog on January 14, 2010 at 11:03 PM
Bingo!!!!
dmann on January 14, 2010 at 11:03 PM
The new Meme, “she was a terrible candidate”.
UncleZeb on January 14, 2010 at 11:03 PM
Glad your mixing ‘em up, there.
Jeff2161 on January 14, 2010 at 11:04 PM
People have been dying in Mass. for 300+ years.
thomasaur on January 14, 2010 at 11:04 PM
I’d recommend Coakley get hammered and drive off a channel bridge with Michael Meehan.
That should bring the voters around.
The Ugly American on January 14, 2010 at 11:05 PM
At this point, I am starting to think Scott Brown needs to start running like a front-runner. He probably only needs to avoid a mega-gaffe in order to win this thing, since Coakley seems to have taken lessons on off-the-cuff remarks from Joe Biden.
Doodad Pro on January 14, 2010 at 11:05 PM
If Massachusetts is mostly as “Catholic”-lite as Teddy Kennedy and John Kerry, believe me, what Coakley said won’t make much difference to them.
marybel on January 14, 2010 at 11:05 PM
Wouldn’t it be nice if the “Tea Bag” influence visited Massachusetts from surrounding States next Tuesday just to visit, have lunch, and spend the day…
… getting in the faces of all the SEIU/ACORN election stealers that are flooding in from all over the country?
The bright light of the Sun shining on an election in Massachusetts for all to see?
Glory to God!
Seven Percent Solution on January 14, 2010 at 11:06 PM
I am REALLY glad that this woman is being MORALLY exposed in this race. It is past time that we return to some sane moral basis in this nation. For too long political machines have divorced character and morals from public policy, and a dumbed-down population has acquiesced. If we can turn that trend around, we can restore the foundations of this nation. That is my prayer.
paul1149 on January 14, 2010 at 11:06 PM
She’s truely an awful candidate.
Brown has had an amazing run of fortune for this race. He’s running against a complacent incompetant who never ran a campaign before, during a time when voter anger at Democrat overreach is at a high while the economy is in the toilet and the Democratic governor unpopular. All these things, plus the fact that Brown is a charismatic candidate who is running a good campaign, have put him within striking distance in Massachusetts.
Revenant on January 14, 2010 at 11:06 PM
She’s terrible politically, too.
LibTired on January 14, 2010 at 11:08 PM
This woman is the archetypal corrupt hack.
rrpjr on January 14, 2010 at 11:09 PM
Wow…this woman may as well be voting for Scott Brown.
Dopenstrange on January 14, 2010 at 11:09 PM
A run of fortune……and nObama won on merit?
dmann on January 14, 2010 at 11:10 PM
It’s not a done deal yet.
https://www.icontribute.us/scottbrown/
galvestonian on January 14, 2010 at 11:10 PM
Okay, I didn’t need to know about the crime. God help that poor baby.
I hope this destroys Coakley’s career, the enabling pig.
atheling on January 14, 2010 at 11:11 PM
Waterloo has arrived. It may not even be close on Tuesday.
davek70 on January 14, 2010 at 11:11 PM
Coakley never should have entered the senate race.
She should have stayed out of the spotlight.
This has exposed her and not only will she lose the senate race but more than likely lose her AG spot. W
What a scum!
katy on January 14, 2010 at 11:12 PM
This goof Coakley related in anyway to Mike Nifong?!!!
What a friggin’ shrew!!!!
pilamaye on January 14, 2010 at 11:12 PM
Oohh that last comment pis$ed me off! Ok, no last rites for me, if I get them at the hospital. No TV on with the Catholic chapel that’s located inside the hospital, with two masses per week, where some employees pray and get the Body of Christ through the Holy Eucharist.
No prayers for recovery for family and friends, no matter what religion. Will tell Mr. PPF to not say anything religious, remotely, in the OR in case all hell (pun intended) breaks loose, either with the patient or his equipment.
Will advise my family to not pray for me next time I go in (I have a Bart Simpson-file type at the hospital). Keep blabbing Coakley, Twitter, Facebook and blogs are gonna bring you down!
BTW this is the prayer that’s given at the chapel, in case you want to use it:
A PRAYER FOR HEALING
LOVING GOD,
YOU INVITE ALL WHO ARE BURDENED TO COME TO YOU.
ALLOW YOUR HEALING HAND TO COME UPON ALL.
TOUCH SOULS WITH YOUR COMPASSION.
TOUCH HEARTS WITH YOUR COURAGE.
TOUCH MINDS WITH YOUR WISDOM.
TOUCH BODIES WITH YOUR LOVE.
TEACH US TO TRUST YOU FOR OUR DAILY BREAD.
EMBRACE US AND THOSE FOR WHOM WE PRAY THIS DAY.
WE ASK ALL BLESSINGS THROUGH CHRIST OUR LORD.
AMEN.
ProudPalinFan on January 14, 2010 at 11:12 PM
FTW
RedNewEnglander on January 14, 2010 at 11:14 PM
I’d call it more a case of spontaneous human combustion.
neurosculptor on January 14, 2010 at 11:15 PM
If she loses, the President and his minions will blame Coakley, that’s why he phoned it in, that and he’s a negative.
Heaven forbid any idea that Barack Obama has destroyed his own party should get out.
Speakup on January 14, 2010 at 11:16 PM
It wasn’t rape rape. It was curling iron rape.
- Whoopi weighs in
fogw on January 14, 2010 at 11:16 PM
This woman seems inconvenienced by the fact that she has to campaign for this Senate seat. That how Zero came across when he campaigned for the Presidency.
joejm65 on January 14, 2010 at 11:17 PM
Martha Coakley on freedom of religion:
“You can have religious freedom but …“
neurosculptor on January 14, 2010 at 11:17 PM
Who vetted this Martha candidate? Who green lighted this gal to carry the Mass senate seat? Must have been people of the same caliber similar of the vetters who did Obama. The only difference is the media coverage is slightly getting better right before the election this time round. Somebody in the DNC had to know about this.
Americannodash on January 14, 2010 at 11:18 PM
…… and Queen Hillary.
fogw on January 14, 2010 at 11:18 PM
I was taught that, in legal circles, silence isthe same as assent. Coakley’s silence regarding this pedophile should sound like screaming to the voters.
AubieJon on January 14, 2010 at 11:18 PM
That reminds me, I wanna see the nags on the View with Scanner like exploding heads.
Holger on January 14, 2010 at 11:18 PM
We called Tom DeLay “The Hammer”.
Perhaps we should call Martha Coakley “The Curling Iron”.
JohnGalt23 on January 14, 2010 at 11:20 PM
Has anyone sent this rape story to BOR? If not, we all need to cause he absolutely rocks when it comes to exposing politicians and judges who do this kind of crap.
Here’s his e-mail addy.
oreilly@foxnews.com
Knucklehead on January 14, 2010 at 11:20 PM
The best the left has…
ROFLMAO!!!
Roy Rogers on January 14, 2010 at 11:21 PM
Indeed. Change only a few of those factors and Coakley would have won this race in a walk, IMO. Thankfully, they broke in Brown’s favor instead.
Depends on how you classify merit. Personally, I believe Obama has been an utter failure as a policymaker and as a statesman, but he was an excellent campaigner. In the rubric of today’s politics, being an excellent campaigner may be the only merit needed to be elected to the highest office.
Revenant on January 14, 2010 at 11:21 PM
Yep, she expected to name drop Kennedy here and there and the serfs would dutifully line up and pull the lever for her.
The handshake remark was a killer, it showcased the contempt Coakley has for “commoners” and the thought of actually having to….*shudder*…shake their hands.
Bishop on January 14, 2010 at 11:21 PM
It’s not even so much that…She just never struck me as a strong enough candidate, and doesn’t seem to handle interviews too well.
As I’ve said before, it seems the Dems in Mass just considered any Dem a “gimme” for Kennedy’s seat.
I really hope the entire country wakes up finally and sees these liberal Democrats for who and what they truly are. And that this epiphany lasts for a while.
JetBoy on January 14, 2010 at 11:22 PM
Somebody go dig Ted back up because not only is he gonna need to vote, he’s gonna need run for his own old senate seat. Martha is done.
Americannodash on January 14, 2010 at 11:22 PM
Shouldn’t the election be postponed because of the death and destruction in Haiti?
Saw that on HuffPo. But don’t you fret none, there were far more “Coakley and/or Obama can suck it, this Massachusetts liberal is staying home” anger posts about healthcare/big pharma/no public option.
Marcus on January 14, 2010 at 11:24 PM
Sad, Very Sad, that a person like this has gotten this far in politics.
BDU-33 on January 14, 2010 at 11:25 PM
I mean we’re talking about a cross between a box of rccks and bag of hammers. Afganistan is Taliban free?
Americannodash on January 14, 2010 at 11:26 PM
Agreed.
Revenant on January 14, 2010 at 11:26 PM
Uh yeah but the messed up part is she could still become a United States Senator
sonnyspats1 on January 14, 2010 at 11:27 PM
On the audio she said the cop had been out of the union for a year. No mention of the father. Then she said the guy ended up being convicted, so that shows what a great job she did. The interviewer several times had to stop himself from arguing with her and just move on to the next question.
pedestrian on January 14, 2010 at 11:27 PM
The law says that we’re allowed to have our religious freedom???
No, feather-brain, God gives us the right to believe the religion of our choice; The Constitution prohibits government from abridging that right.
She’s not qualified to be dog catcher, how the hell did she get to be State Attorney General?
Socratease on January 14, 2010 at 11:27 PM
those of you that are relgious. Pary to God that Brown wins. Pray for deliverance from the Obama nightmare.
unseen on January 14, 2010 at 11:29 PM
You mean other than both being Democrats?
roy_batty on January 14, 2010 at 11:31 PM
New poll: Brown up by four
A Suffolk University poll released Thursday evening shows Republican Scott Brown four points ahead of Democrat Martha Coakley as he continues his improbable surge in the Massachusetts Senate special election.
The poll reports Brown is leading Coakley, 50 to 46 percent, just within the margin of error. Independent candidate Joe Kennedy received 3 percent.
Suffolk pollster David Paleologos told the Boston Herald even he was surprised by the poll’s results, noting that their models show a likely high turnout of independent voters next Tuesday, which is likely to benefit Brown. The results also showed Brown leading in all the state’s regions except Suffolk County.
Brown’s favorability ratings are also higher than Coakley’s, with 57 percent saying they have a favorable opinion of the state senator and just 19 percent having an unfavorable opinion. Forty-nine percent say they have a favorable opinion of Coakley, while 41 percent have an unfavorable opinion of the attorney general.
Against the backdrop of an election that could possibly play a decisive role in the health care debate—a point both parties have begun to press on their supporters—51 percent said they did not support the health care bill, with 36 percent supported it. Sixty-one percent said they didn’t believe the government could afford such a plan.
A plurality of respondents also believe Brown fared better during the televised debates between the candidates, with 41 percent saying they believed Brown won, compared to just 25 percent for Coakley.
The survey was conducted Jan. 11-13 and surveyed 500 registered voters, with a margin of error of 4.4 percent.
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Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31534.html#ixzz0ceTqHL0G
takeamericabackin10 on January 14, 2010 at 11:33 PM
Push Comes To Shove
Christien on January 14, 2010 at 11:34 PM
lol.
When the Dems finally realize this meme isn’t working, they’ll probably switch to “The local Democratic parties are terrible at picking candidates.” Because surely isn’t the case that Democrats have horribly stupid, unpopular positions. Because Democrats are always right.
darii on January 14, 2010 at 11:36 PM
Any updates on whether the Dems could effectively delay Brown being sworn in?
darii on January 14, 2010 at 11:37 PM
More Implosion documented at Ace of Spades. The Tagline is: Martha Coakley: yea, I will deny someone a life saving heart transplant for political reasons.
What a disgusting troglodyte the woman is.
Holger on January 14, 2010 at 11:39 PM
She’s just a creep, another clueless affirmative action fraud.
Mojave Mark on January 14, 2010 at 11:39 PM
remember, one out of two people are below average intelligence.
uber on January 14, 2010 at 11:40 PM
Turns out she also blocked the donation of a heart to better ensure her case – something that probably led to someone else dying too for lack of a heart:
http://minx.cc/?post=297044
manofaiki on January 14, 2010 at 11:41 PM
In honor of the Boston Red Sox who recently won the World Series for the first time since the Great Bambino and in honor of another historic event, Brown getting elected…
I present…
The Dropkick Murphy’s singing Tessie
Holger on January 14, 2010 at 11:44 PM
And this is the candidate who the Dems are counting on to “help save the American health care system.” Hell, at least Teddy Kennedy was sloshed when he left the girl to die. This woman let a man die while sober.
darii on January 14, 2010 at 11:47 PM
This story simply is missing too much to make sense.
AnninCA on January 14, 2010 at 11:48 PM
Coakley = I vote a straight Democratic ticket, what more could you want in a candidate? It’s not like I really have to think about anything.
GarandFan on January 14, 2010 at 11:48 PM
She ends the radio interview by saying “Some of my best friends are Republicans.” LOL! Nice. For some reason I don’t believe her.
terryannonline on January 14, 2010 at 11:48 PM
Maybe she knows Colin Powell or David Brooks?
darii on January 14, 2010 at 11:49 PM
Probably an Ivy-League Law School plus brain dead voters.
chemman on January 14, 2010 at 11:50 PM
This is the best the Democrats could come up with? Really? They though that Ted Kennedy’s old seat was a sure thing for any Democrat to pick up?
What is Coakley’s message if she isn’t running on fighting crime or national defense SEE there are no terrorist in Afghanistan.
What is Coakley running on? I mean besides SEIU fumes :)
Dr Evil on January 14, 2010 at 11:50 PM
It’s Dede Skuzzyfuzzy dressed in Coakley
Kini on January 14, 2010 at 11:51 PM
Heard this morning that the state wouldn’t certify the election for at least 15 days. Precincts have to wait 10 days for absentee ballots plus have another 5 days to certify the vote to the state.
chemman on January 14, 2010 at 11:51 PM
Given Coakley’s weakness for vicious felons, she would make a great running mate for Mike Huckabee in 2012.
bigred on January 14, 2010 at 11:52 PM
Ron Paul is her BFF.
terryannonline on January 14, 2010 at 11:53 PM
I can’t see how she can run on health care in Massachusetts, everyones’ already covered to the detriment of the State’s coffers.
What exactly is her big sales pitch – what is she going to do for Massachusetts no one else can? I mean besides raise everyone’s taxes.
Dr Evil on January 14, 2010 at 11:54 PM
And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations..
El_Terrible on January 14, 2010 at 11:54 PM
Why do I have to do all the heavy lifting? Not that I mind…
OmahaConservative on January 14, 2010 at 11:54 PM
Cause I do it whenever I go to the bathroom.
Thank you, I’ll be here all night. Don’t forget to tip your waitress.
Holger on January 14, 2010 at 11:56 PM
I’m not even talking about politics. I can object to someone’s politics and still think they’re a good person. I have a ton of respect for Feingold even though I agree with almost none of his policy positions.
This is just a terrible woman. She went out of her way to keep a man who she knew was innocent behind bars to prove she was tough on crime, while letting a man who tortured and raped a toddler go because he had family connections.
This is simply an awful, awful woman. If the tables were flipped, and Coakley was the Republican, I would pull the lever for the Democrat.
BadgerHawk on January 14, 2010 at 11:58 PM
We gotta let someone at Fox News know about it!
This woman is not only clueless when it comes to foreign policy. She’s also unjust and cruel. This cannot be said enough.
Hey, MA: is this the person you want to see representing you as a U.S. Senator? Think about it, long and hard. You will regret choosing her.
newton on January 14, 2010 at 11:59 PM
Not so long ago, I was at a utility company for business — employee who’d assisted me began to engage in some small talk after the business was concluded and was going on as to how she favored John Edwards for the Presidency.
I asked her how, why, remaining polite in doing so. Woman “just (thought) he was someone (she) would like to see elected.” That was the extent of her understanding of who Edwards was and why she “liked” him.
Never underestimate the extent to which many people are not only badly informed but who are literally uninformed, and, base their voting decisions on visual observations and some sort of emotional fascination with someone else’s image and imagery.
Lourdes on January 15, 2010 at 12:00 AM
looooool!
darii on January 15, 2010 at 12:02 AM
Are they so used to getting their way that this is all they could come up with???
Jesus….
BigWyo on January 15, 2010 at 12:03 AM
I think I saw Coakley once go shopping with her new BFF Joe Scarborough.
terryannonline on January 15, 2010 at 12:05 AM
It ain’t over till the last vote is counted, and then considering all that ACORN and SEIU have done recently it still ain’t over at that point…..(needless to say, I’m not about to trust the democRATS!)
Vntnrse on January 15, 2010 at 12:07 AM
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