WHAT DO COAKLEY'S SUPPORTERS SAY?

Coakley is for Coakley.

By her shifts in position over the past few weeks she has shown she will be nothing but a rubber stamp for Harry Reid and will do what she thinks best for herself. She was against the Senate healthcare bill before she was for it. One disgusted supporter said this: "This candidate has zero substance. ZERO...she is no fighter and no political strategist. She has, once again, chosen to roll over and play dead - and she isn't even elected yet."

Coakley "chilly," "lacking in soul," lacking in heart."

Yesterday The Boston Globe’s columnist Joan Vennochi, one of the paper’s leading cheerleaders for Democrats for over 25 years, in making her obligatory but unenthusiastic case for Coakley, couldn’t resist saying,

"Coakley seems afraid to say what she believes in, giving voters reason to conclude she believes in nothing. ...a campaign lacking in soul and a candidate lacking in heart.”

WHAT ELSE SHOULD WE KNOW?

Coakley is "unfit" for the Senate, hounded an innocent man for political gain.

Coakley has been called “unfit” to be a U.S. Senator because of her behavior as district attorney in Middlesex Count in the notorious Fells Acre case. To show she was tough, she blocked the release of an innocent man from prison for several years after a parole board voted unanimously to let the wrongly convicted man go home. Only the resulting uproar from public and press kept her from objecting the next time the parole board had the chance to vote and finally set him free.

Coakley, part of the old boy network, protects the politically connected.

Just this week (Thursday, January 7 ,2009) The Boston Globe reported on her failure to prosecute a politically connected Somerville police officer for rape of his 23-month old niece.

Coakley looks the other way on Beacon Hill corruption.

As Attorney General, she has done nothing to root out the endemic corruption on Beacon Hill. It was the U.S. Attorney, not Attorney General Coakley, who launched the investigation and prosecution of her colleague in the Beacon Hill mutual back scratching network former House Speaker Sal DiMasi, who was doing his deals right under her nose.

Coakley supports bill robbing Medicare and cutting reimbursements for Medicare doctors.

Coakley supports a 40% tax on top-of-the-line health insurance plans, taking money from Medicare to pay for Obamacare and slashing Medicare payments to doctors, which will force them to drop Medicare patients. Just this month the Mayo Clinic branch in Arizona pulled out of Medicare, claiming it could no longer bear the losses resulting from low Medicare reimbursements. Under Obamacare Medicare reimbursements will be cut even more. Finding new doctors on the Cape, particularly primary care doctors, is already very difficult. Coakley supports the plan that will make it worse. No wonder 57% of the American public oppose it, but Coakley has already let Harry Reid know she will do whatever he says, regardless of the consequences for seniors.

If you want more taxes, Coakley is for you.

Coakley is hiding from Scott Brown.

Seven televised debates between Coakley and Scott Brown were proposed, but Coakley only agreed to one, on Monday, January 11th.

What is Coakley running on? She's a woman. She's a Democrat. She will do what she's told. She can play in the old boy network. There is no principle she will not sacrifice for political gain. If she has to sell out seniors, she can do it. National defense, terrorism? The less said, the better.

Scott Brown has shown leadership, principle, character and an understanding of what it takes to defend America and build a strong, productive economy that creates jobs. He will not be one of the boys in Washington's network of political corruption, as Coakley has been in Massachusetts.