Coakley's loss and absolute disaster as a candidate IS the Massachusetts Story

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I frankly think everyone is jumping the shark on the Massachusetts loss and with Brown winning as a signal that Teabaggers and Republicans are gaining popularity.

It's sloppy journalism combined with Beltway Sheepdom and Punditry Puppet Theater.

First of all, the Republican brand is in the shitter. Recent polls have the GOP as an identity in the 20% range. Recent polls matching Obama to the usual suspects now have him beating them by a dozen points or more.

Face it. If Coakley had actually been a reasonable candidate who didn't blow a 30+ point lead and perhaps didn't take a vacation in between her gaffe-laden campaign, the spin would be that the Teabaggers, Republicans and the Religious Right were going to further implode. She was awful. Period.

The fact that Brown was a better candidate just by showing up and not being a gaffe-laden twit made for the victory to be all but inevitable.

It's like someone in a sailing race taking down their sails and going to sleep in the bunk and letting the other sailor whiz by if only because their sails were still attached to the mast.

Coakley did just about everything wrong one could do in a campaign. Brown showed up.

So to use this race as some sort of template about how the Democrats are this or that is utter nonsense.

Yes, things are not all solved a year after the eight years of Bush policies put the US in one hell of a spot. Yes, as Civics-educated people would know, government legislation takes time and is not a goddamn video game.

Of course, there is work to be done and we all need to pressure the Obama administration with what is needed as well as be ready to hit the streets to elect Democrats in 2010 and beyond.

But to think the Massachusetts race outcome is some kind of harbinger of doom for Democrats is merely Fox News yakking points. It's like saying the Confederates winning the Dinwiddie Court House Battle in the Civil War meant that the Union was soon going to be defeated.

Add that Brown is on the record essentially supporting state (government)-run mandated healthcare, for abortion rights with Roe v. Wade and considering same-sex marriage approved law that he supports.

Are Republicans for such issues? Not a goddamn chance...