Harold's Left:
Riddle me this... How is it that the Senate seat of one of our most beloved progressive heroes, Ted Kennedy, could be lost because a potentially moronic and horrifically run campaign by Martha Coakley could potentially derail the President's agenda and be the beginnings of a resurgence of the obstructionist agenda of the Republican Party. Here's why:
1. It would crush health care reform and any semblance of a progressive agenda
Health Care reform is in a precarious predicament without the possibility of losing Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. If we do lose this seat, then we can forget doing almost anything useful for the next several years. As I mentioned a few days ago, Republicans have changed Senatorial protocol by using the threat of the filibuster to force cloture votes at a rate since 2006 that is three times that of any other time in history. So, can you imagine what will happen if we don't have a 60 (even if that includes Joe the Dummy) vote majority? Yeah... nothing.
2. Fox News and the Right will make it a referendum on Obama
If Coakley losses, even if it is because of her mismanaged campaign, the Right will use it as a way to claim this is about Obama. And can you blame them? If we loss Massachusetts. MASSACHUSETTS. That's like the Republicans losing Utah. How can we blame them for attacking Obama on it. Not only that, it's the Senate seat of the most important liberal senator of the last century. You can bet that if we lose this, Fox News will beat the drum off Tea Party nonsense and a Republican resurgence.
Folks. If you are in Massachusetts, please go out and vote tomorrow. If for nothing else to uphold the legacy and the lifelong work of Ted Kennedy. It would be an absolute disaster if we lose this seat. We cannot let this happen. I will be making calls tonight to voters in Massachusetts and I don't even live there. Let's not let it happen.
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