I feel sick to my stomach

[ellid]

My new Senator, successor to Ted Kennedy, is a former nude model who thinks that drowning people is an acceptable way to get information from them.

God.

Comments

[girlygothic.livejournal.com]

If it helps at all, you are not the only one sickened.

[rufinia.livejournal.com]

I'm revolted.

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

You have my condolences :-(

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. I don't care about the nude modeling thing (as an occasional nude model for figure drawing classes, it would be hypocritical of me if that were an issue) but the other things you've described about his tactics makes me want to cry and smash things.

I just don't get why people keep voting for slick Republicans. It baffles me, when most of what the Republican party espouses benefits a very small percentage of people.

[ladymorgana13.livejournal.com]

that's horrid. I'm so sorry.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Oh, I don't mind the nudity - he was actually kinda cute in that really wholesome way. But it really fries me that a male politician can pose naked and have it laughed off as a cool and lucrative way to pay for law school, while a female politician would be denounced as a slut and driven out of her local party before she so much as filed her nominating papers for school committee.

Coakley ran a shitty, shitty campaign, and really deserved to lose. But this state deserves better than a guy who goes around telling everyone what a regular joe he is, and how all he drives is this battered old pick up truck, when he owns a half million house in an upper middle suburb and has several investment properties, including two small condos in Boston.

[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

I hate it when rich Republicans try to act like "regular Joes". I know regular Joes, they ain't rich Republicans.

Some of them are Republicans but it's because of very specific issues and to the exclusion of everything else. I don't talk specific politics with my dad because of this. (It's not that we disagree, really. It's that his hot button issue (gun rights) and mine (abortion access) tend to have us voting for opposing candidates.

I really hope Brown doesn't screw the rest of the country. I don't like the current health bill in Congress but I'm pessimistic enough to think that if something doesn't pass now, who knows what we'll get further down the road.

[lherelenfeline.livejournal.com]

My condolences...

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

Don't even worry about Ted. He's gone beyond.

The lesson from this is that no state can take their Senators for granted-=and this is kind of a positive thing for me, as although I've lived in Illinois since 93, VA is my home state, and when George Allen lost in '04 I was rocking the casbah in joy--fucking lazy loser who took it for granted and his most visible public appearance was a YouTube racist insult.

Jim Webb did the work, did the campaigning, made the stops, got in touch with his base in the state, kept making speeches and appearances even on the holiday weekends...that's how he won. And that's how Coakley lost. All politics is local.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Word.

Thanks. I hope Mike Capuano runs in 2012. He's just like Webb: campaigns, gives back as good as he gets, won't back down. He'd be a great Senator.

[patrikia.livejournal.com]

Sorry to our friends in Mass., but F#*( Mass. I hope they push the bill through ASAP, before he is sworn in.

Feh.

[prince-hring.livejournal.com]

From CBC: "Many said Coakley ran an aloof campaign that smacked of arrogance, while her Republican opponent was deftly tuned in to a grassroots whipped up by job losses and rampant home foreclosures."

WTF?

The economic melt-down was caused by excessive de-regulation, a hallmark of the Republican party platform.

And a Republican used the trouble that caused to get into office?

I don't think I'll ever understand politics.

[ellid.livejournal.com]

Doesn't matter. Coakley ran a terrible, terrible campaign. If she'd actually paid attention and made appearances, opened an office in Springfield or Holyoke, and gone after Brown on the issues, she'd have won with ease. As it is, she didn't want it badly enough, and man did it show.

As for Brown - I can't see him lasting. Too shallow, too much a pretty boy, way too close to the teabaggers.

[susannaknits.livejournal.com]

I thought of you when I heard.

Dreadful.