Originally Posted By Sport Goofy << There are simply an endless number of reasons to criticize Martha Coakley today. >> You provided a list of gaffes that is pretty much typical of all campaigns. The lack of campaign events was based on the pre-Christmas polls. No one on either side predicted that Brown could turn Tea Party appearances into widespread enthusiasm. You can list a number of gaffes on the Brown side as well, but the loser gets all the criticism. In this case, I think the criticism is too harsh. There is certainly a lot of hindsight that can be applied, but prior to the holidays no one was saying that Coakley was doing anything wrong.
Originally Posted By Mr X ***But the poll dug deeper and asked people why they opposed it. Among those Brown voters, 23 percent thought it went "too far" -- but 36 percent thought it didn't go far enough and 41 percent said they weren't sure why they opposed it.*** Wow, that's depressing. Seems as though a dogged Republican talking point as simplistic as "it stinks, and you don't need to know why so we'll change the reason every time it suits us depending on the question posed", works well. Baffle em with B.S. as a political weapon. Who knew?
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy I was listening to a radio call-in show today and a woman came on the air about health care. She said she was totally against "Obamacare." The host asked her why. She said she wasn't familiar with the bill but was sure it wasn't the direction this country needed to be heading. The host asked again if there were any specific reasons. She couldn't name any. Then the host asked if she was comfortable with 34 million people not getting access to health care if the bill is tabled. She said she didn't believe that figure was correct becasue everyone she knows has health care. It was depressing to listen to.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy Oh, and then she went on a diatribe about taking money from the rich to buy poor people health care. I wish I could have asked her if she realized that Medicaid already gives poor people health care and if she understood that health insurance reform is fixing the problem with people who have jobs and financial means from being denied access to care.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>But I'm not so much worried about healthcare as the rest of the progressive agenda. << "Where Senator-elect Scott Brown stands on issues - other than health care" <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/01/19/where-senator-elect-scott-brown-stand-on-issues-%E2%80%94-other-than-health-care/" target="_blank">http://dailycaller.com/2010/01...th-care/</a>
Originally Posted By mawnck ... but scores about a 30% on the Wingnut Loyalty Survey. Dude is a moderate. How moderate remains to be seen.
Originally Posted By Sport Goofy You don't have to be a wingnut to vote no on moderate legislation. The Republicans all voted no on what is a very moderate health care reform bill.
