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January 19, 2010
Inside the mind of a key Coakley supporter
Before the race between Scott Brown and Martha Coakley, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino had not been on my radar screen. Recently, though, his breathtakingly demagogic statements about the election forced me to pay attention. According to Menino, Massachusetts voters who support Scott Brown are doing so not because they want him to win (or because they don't like the eminently dislikable Martha Coakley), but because they want President Obama to fail: Ahead of Obama's visit, Boston Mayor Thomas Menino told a largely black congregation that a Coakley loss will be a victory for people who want Obama to fail.Geez. You don't think that might be code language for the proposition that even though Coakley is white, it is racist to oppose her, do you? How subtle and thoughtful Boston's Mayor is. Anyway, this made me want to know more about him, because, if he's a key Coakley supporter who goes out of his way to issue demagogic statements like that at a prayer service for Haitian earthquake victims, this doesn't speak well of Coakley. As I said in a previous post, I'm hardly a "RAH-RAH" type Brown supporter (although I do strongly support him), but some things have too much of a stench to be ignored. In that regard, I had read about SEIU goons being bused in to help Coakley, and while I didn't really have anything to add at the time, this morning I visited Mayor Menino's Wiki page, where I saw this gem of a picture staring me in the face: Egad! Whether I'm too sensitive to stand the heat and should get the hell out of the kitchen is debatable, but I think images like that are enough to make many a fair-minded person of good will want to get the hell out of the kitchen. But isn't that precisely what Menino and his union goons want? Menino is also one of the country's leading gun grabbers. Along with New York's Mayor Bloomberg, he co-founded and co-chairs the notorious Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition. To give you an idea of the way he thinks, in an incident in which a mom and grandmom failed to supervise children who played with a loaded gun left lying around, then lied to the police and falsely claimed the child was shot by an intruder, Mayor Menino blamed the NRA. This guy epitomizes what is wrong with the Democrats, and he is one of Martha Coakley's key supporters. (Coakley seems to know how to return a favor, too.) If anyone reading this blog is still looking for a good reason to support Scott Brown, look no further than Mayor Thomas Menino. posted by Eric on 01.19.10 at 11:29 AM |
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