Brown supporters trying to suppress vote by bullying-WOW a smack down OP from Vennochi

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She makes her feelingS clear about Brown. The entire piece is just great IMO.

"Brown backers say they are voting for change. Instead, they are supporting a slick, packaged politician who is happy to manipulate them.There’s nothing new about that"

AND, THESE THINGS SHE LISTS ARE JUST SHOCKING REGARDING HIS SUPPORTERS

Messages posted on Coakley’s campaign Facebook include these vicious sentiments: “Scott Brown should rape Martha Coakley and then deny her emergency contraception’’. “Martha Coakley getting raped would complete my life.’’ “Abortion is wrong. Kill her.’’ After one message that states “Looking forward to the rally Friday, Martha,’’ a woman named Amelia Bosley writes:“Hope she gets shot.’’ Imagine putting your name to that in the name of political change.

According to Coakley campaign spokeswoman Alex Zaroulis, some Brown supporters surrounded Coakley’s car on Saturday in Gloucester and yelled “You suck.’’

On Monday, a Brown supporter in Pittsfield lay down on the road in front of Coakley’s car, Zaroulis said.



Turnout is key. The Democrat’s best hope is a strong ground game.

That’s why Brown supporters are trying to suppress the vote, by bullying and making Coakley supporters believe the cause is hopeless.

That’s the picture Brown is trying to paint. It isn’t pretty, like a lot of his campaign


http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2010/01/18/brown_supporters_trying_to_suppress_vote_by_bullying/

[MBS]

1. thanks for posting this

I somehow missed it yesterday. In her reporting on JK, Joanie drives me up a wall (to the point that I had stopped reading her, other than to check the headlines).
but she's been consistently good on this story, and this oped really nails it. I also saw her on MSNBC last night (Tweety? Olberman? Maddow? can't remember -- they all ran together) , and she was good then, too.


I'm about to head out to the polls, and it's just started to snow. : (

[Inuca]

2. I did not think

I could get even more sickened by this whole thing...

[ObamaKerryDem]

3. Glad that these slimeballs are getting called out!

If they have such "momentum", why are they resorting to such tactics? It's because they don't have it on their own, on Brown's own merits--they have to rely on our people not bothering, which is why they seem to be relying on a lower turnout. They are acting more like the folks at the Palin rallies (which by that time, it had become pretty apparent that they would likely lose) than folks who are sailing towards victory..

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4. Good points,

To me they remind me in some ways of Gore/Bush 2000 mob. The angry mob of Repubs threatening and demanding all sorts of things, because they wanted to intimidate counters and bully their way to election victory. Ugly human beings.

Although, as impossible as it seems, the Tea Party people are a more threatening, uglier and angrier mob. Why would anyone want to reward this kind of behavior?