If a Democrat acts like he or she is a Republican--why not just vote for the Republican

[trumad]

And hence why we lost the Independent voters in Mass.

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Now you're talking like that guy in your avatar.

And he was right about that. Still true today.

[truebrit71]

10. Indeed it is...all this talk from some here about how the "liberals" cost us MA need to put down the

...crackpipe...

Centralism and bi-partisanship are a recipe for a one-term Presidency...

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Almost makes you think that the Dems don't care about keeping seats

They'll get lobbyist jobs and other perks if they're voted out -- IF they serve their masters well while in office! -- so what difference does it make to them?

We've been royally had. Most of our own party is no damned good.

[rudy23]

4. Srsly--why would our elite Dems want to go through all that blackmail and slander

Just so they can "face up" to the military industrial complex & corporate media? Because, that's what they've been champing at the bit to do for the last few decades, and FINALLY they have the chance?

No, they want their jobs to be nice and easy. And lucrative, especially after they leave. Why on earth would they want to risk this by winning a super-super majority this year?

[rox63]

3. Coakley didn't act like a Republican, she was a really bad campaigner

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. Was Coakley GOP-lite?

Honest question.

:shrug:

[Little Star]

7. No, she is not gop-lite at all.

[grytpype]

6. Not all Democrats are screaming, crying libs.

Something that screaming, crying libs don't understand.

[MUAD_DIB]

8. That was actually the language that the GOP

used in election 2000-2004.

[cali]

9. except she didn't. one more time. Martha Coakley is a very liberal dem

she opposes the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan. She went after corporations big time as AG. She was a terrible candidate- but not because she's not a liberal.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

11. Is the OP saying...

...Coakley, liberal though she may be but horrible candidate she was, the real vote was because the current congress and admin are acting too GOPish?

That I could almost see but so far I'm being told Coakley was safely one of us.