A tea party Republican will fill Ted Kennedy’s seat at this most critical time for healthcare reform.  Martha Coakley lost this Massachusetts seat.  There is quite a bit of blame to go around not to mention a horrendously run campaign but one thing I know for sure is:  It is idiotic for a senate candidate to go on vacation for SIX days at the tail end of a Senate race.

Let’s be clear. The only thing that changed between the Dec 19th poll, where the Coakley campaign had 20 point lead, and the January 5th poll, where their lead had been halved, is that the Brown campaign went on air and aggressively defined their candidate as well as the Democratic candidate, while the Democratic candidate was literally on a vacation. During that period, the Coakley campaign did no further polling, advertising, or ID’ing of supporters despite having a significant fundraising advantage.

As Scott Brown himself conceded this race wasn’t defined by feelings about the president. This race was defined by the lack of defining done by the Coakley campaign.

Completely and totally TONE-DEAF. 

Brown defends WATERBOARDING for goodness sake!  Why did the voters in Mass not hear about this fact????