re: #37 goddamnedfrank

This whole thing is now designed to get Scott Brown back in the Senate. There doesn’t have to be a cover up, they’ll just keep ginning up excuses for opposing the very idea of Rice as SoS, and presenting John Kerry as a nomination that will sail through confirmation hearings.

Scott Brown won the special election here in Massachusetts for two reasons:
(1) It was a special election that by its nature was sure to get poorer turnout, in which extremist groups like the tea party can have greater weight, and
(2) MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY, Martha Coakley was so elitest and overconfident that she didn’t even bother to campaign seriously - she would disappear from public view for weeks at a time, and even openly flaunted her idea that it was beneath her to do the kinds of things Brown was aggressively and conspicuously doing, such as standing outside of the baseball stadium greeting voters, and trucking all over the state to greet voters at restaurants.

While (1) may not be controllable if Kerry gets the post and Brown tries the special election route to the senate again, we can all be sure that the Democatic Party in Massachusetts will never again allow its candidate to non-campaign the way Martha Coakley did.