On blaming Bush – and endorsing Scott Brown

Hotline on Call reports that post-Coakley/Obama rally yesterday in MA, Democrats were blaming Coakley’s bungling campaign on … who else? Bush (via Memeorandum):

As audience members streamed out of Pres. Obama’s rally on behalf of AG Martha Coakley (D) here tonight, the consensus was that the fault for Coakley’s now-floundering MA SEN bid lies with one person — George W. Bush.

“People are upset because there’s so many problems,” Rosemary Kverek, 70, a retired Charleston schoolteacher said as tonight’s rally wrapped up. “But the problems came from the previous administration. So we’re blaming poor Obama, who’s working 36 hours a day … to solve these problems that he inherited.”

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), speaking with a gaggle of reporters after the event, said that while state Sen. Scott Brown (R) offers voters a quick fix, in reality, the problems created by “George Bush and his cronies” are not so easily solved.

“If you think there’s magic out there and things can be turned around overnight, then you would vote for someone who could promise you that, like Scott Brown,” Kennedy said. “If you don’t, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole … then you know we have a lot of digging to do, but some work needs to be done and this president’s in the process of doing it and we need to get Marcia Coakley to help him to do that.”

Really – no surprises here, considering this is the party that historically does not take responsibility for its own actions, and encourages others to do the same. Of course they’re going to blame Bush rather than face up to the mounting opposition against their huge gov’t agenda. Thats What They Do.

Isn’t Martha Coakley a strong enough candidate that she should be able to stand on her own record rather than playing the Bush blame game? Apparently not, since not only do she and her supporters feel she needs to run on (and distort) Bush’s record rather than her own and her party’s, but she and her handlers also didn’t think she’d be able to pull out a win tomorrow without President Obama visiting the state in the final days of the campaign to give a soaring but – typically – empty rhetorical speech endorsing her.

Bbbbut even with calling in our celebrity President yesterday to pick up the slack for Coakley’s campaign by promoting both her and healthcare “reform,” WH senior advisor David Axelturf says the 2010 elections won’t be a referendum on Obama and other Democrats. Er – ok.

Simply spinsational.

BTW, Patrick Kennedy – her name is not “Marcia.” It’s Martha.

And lastly, Michelle Malkin has probably the best endorsement of Scott Brown – and takedown of the GOP establishment types like David Frum who are declaring that the Tea Partiers’ support of Brown is a vindication of FrumCo’s moderate aka “go along with the left in the interest of harmony and winning elections” agenda – here. My main reasons for supporting Brown, as I’ve said before, are because a win of that normally reliably Democrat (“Kennedy”) seat would send shockwaves throughout the country and send Dems in DEFCON 1 panic mode, while energizing Republicans in a way that we haven’t seen in a long time. Not only that, but he’s said he would vote against ObamaCare. But Malkin lays out several other (mostly) good reasons to support him as well. Make sure to read the whole thing.

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