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Coakley Missing Gravitas For US Senater
« on: January 16, 2010, 07:32:23 PM »
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/coakley-on-schilling-a-yankee-fan/

Coakley on Schilling: A Yankee Fan?

By MICHAEL COOPER

BOSTON – Could the fate of the health care bill, its passage or defeat, hinge on a sports gaffe?

Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democrat vying to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and to cast the 60th vote for the bill, may be about to find out. She is being roundly mocked in this Red Sox-crazy state for mistakenly suggesting in a radio interview that Curt Schilling, the former Red Sox pitcher, is a Yankee fan.

Mr. Schilling was accorded near-heroic status here for guiding the team to victory over their arch-rivals, the Yankees, in a key game in 2004 while his own sock was literally bloody from an ankle injury. The radio exchange was quickly blasted to reporters by gleeful Republicans.

It was Ms. Coakley who brought up baseball in the interview on WBZ News Radio. She noted that her rival, Scott Brown, a Republican State Senator, had been campaigning in Boston Friday with Rudolph W. Giuliani, and she reminded listeners that Mr. Giuliani is a Yankee fan.

The interviewer, Dan Rea, said, “Yeah, but now Scott Brown has Curt Schilling, OK?’’

To which Ms. Coakley replied, “And another Yankee fan.’’

“Schilling?’’ Mr. Rea pressed.

“Yes,’’ she said.

“Curt Schilling a Yankee fan?’’ he persisted.

“No, all right, I’m wrong on my, I’m wrong,’’ she said.

Mr. Schilling, who helped Senator John McCain win the New Hampshire primary in 2008 by campaigning with him there, and who has been supporting Mr. Brown, fired back on his own blog. “I’ve been called a lot of things,’’ he wrote, “but never, and I mean never, could anyone ever make the mistake of calling me a Yankee fan. Well, check that, if you didn’t know what the hell is going on in your own state maybe you could….”

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Re: Coakley Missing Gravitas For US Senater
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2010, 08:36:46 PM »
at this point she's missing supporters and votes
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Re: Coakley Missing Gravitas For US Senater
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2010, 08:47:07 PM »
at this point she's missing supporters and votes

Goodbye Ted, welcome in Brown all the while Coakley looks like a clown

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Re: Coakley Missing Gravitas For US Senater
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2010, 08:47:33 PM »
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9D72N2O0&show_article=1

Looks like Coakley just got kicked in the ass by her own secretary of state.  Stupid thing to say, and it'll piss off a lot of voters who aren't committed Democrats.  Obama's got his work cut out for him, but I think he'll be able to pull Coakley's chestnuts out of the fire.

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Re: Coakley Missing Gravitas For US Senater
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2010, 08:50:56 PM »
No need to worry Tee.  If Coakly pulls out the miracle, the SoS will quickly bypass all the legal loopholes to facilitate a quick and seamless transition
"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal." -- Aristotle

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Re: Coakley Missing Gravitas For US Senater
« Reply #6 on: January 16, 2010, 08:58:44 PM »
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9D72N2O0&show_article=1

Looks like Coakley just got kicked in the ass by her own secretary of state.  Stupid thing to say, and it'll piss off a lot of voters who aren't committed Democrats.  Obama's got his work cut out for him, but I think he'll be able to pull Coakley's chestnuts out of the fire.

proof democrats are scumbags

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Re: Coakley Missing Gravitas For US Senater
« Reply #7 on: January 16, 2010, 10:24:33 PM »
Knowing who is a fan of what sports team is totally irrelevant for any Senator.
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Re: Coakley Missing Gravitas For US Senater
« Reply #8 on: January 16, 2010, 10:32:21 PM »
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Knowing who is a fan of what sports team is totally irrelevant for any Senator.

You can not be from Boston and not know who Curt Schilling is.

And you don't want Bill Buckner to endorse you.

It's all about being of the people.


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Re: Coakley Missing Gravitas For US Senater
« Reply #9 on: January 16, 2010, 10:34:23 PM »
Knowing who is a fan of what sports team is totally irrelevant for any Senator.

You'd think that a senatorial candidate would know who the local heroes are, though. They're supposed to be in touch with their constituents, after all.
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Re: Coakley Missing Gravitas For US Senater
« Reply #10 on: January 16, 2010, 11:04:37 PM »
Knowing who is a fan of what sports team is totally irrelevant for any Senator.

Not after the senatorial canadate brings up the subject herself.

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Re: Coakley Missing Gravitas For US Senater
« Reply #11 on: January 16, 2010, 11:31:32 PM »
Knowing who is a fan of what sports team is totally irrelevant for any Senator.

if I have to explain to you why she's an idiot then you and her of something in common
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Re: Coakley Missing Gravitas For US Senater
« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2010, 11:46:09 PM »
Ridiculous to expect a woman candidate would be up on the local athletic lore.  She's not a fan and there's no reason she should be.  She made a very small mistake trying to talk like a fan and it backfired on her.  BFD.  Who's still upset about comparable gaffes by Hillary, with her bullshit attempts to look like a drinker and then a duck hunter?  Water under the bridge.

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Re: Coakley Missing Gravitas For US Senater
« Reply #13 on: January 16, 2010, 11:56:01 PM »
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Ridiculous to expect a woman candidate would be up on the local athletic lore.

Sexist bullshit.

She shouldn't have opened the door if she didn't know where it went. For gwds sake she was a prosecutor.

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Re: Coakley Missing Gravitas For US Senater
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2010, 11:57:19 PM »
Ridiculous to expect a woman candidate would be up on the local athletic lore.  She's not a fan and there's no reason she should be.  She made a very small mistake trying to talk like a fan and it backfired on her.  BFD.  Who's still upset about comparable gaffes by Hillary, with her bullshit attempts to look like a drinker and then a duck hunter?  Water under the bridge.

look Bozo she's the one that brought the topic up in the first place. plus mr sexist I know women that know more about sports than most guys...