Massachusetts Democrat Martha Coakley tonight lost her bid for the US Senate left by the late Edward M. Kennedy the moment these words were said on July 22, 2009:
"I don't know all the facts... I don't know not having been there and not seeing all the facts... but... the Cambridge [MA] police acted stupidly...."
If there is one thing I know about Massachusetts folks, they don't like their policemen being abused by anyone, even if the abuser is the President of the United States. The Cambridge police department, it is worth noting, endorsed the Republican candidate for the "Kennedy Seat" over Ms. Coakley, and this despite the amazing fact that Ms. Coakley's husband is a retired Cambridge police officer. Really, what can be said when the police unions in the bluest state reject their own attorney general? One can't help but think her support of the president did not set well with those who felt Mr. Obama misused his power to support a Harvard friend and denigrate a whole city police department.
I think historians should always look back to July 22, 2009 as the beginning of the end for Barack Obama's term in the White House. At least, that date marks the beginning of the end for Martha Coakley and the Democrats' most hallowed Senate seat. That, at least, is how history should score it.
One commentator tonight, a long-time pol who lives in Massachusetts, summed up tonight's loss as a "referendum on arrogance." Interesting, and mostly right. But it is also a referendum on the Democrats' greatest vice, epitomized in the July 22, 2009 remarks made by Barack Obama. That vice is being utterly tone deaf to the truth, and the people.
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