Top Dem Rips Coakley Campaign: “Worst Debacle In American Political History”

[jefferson_dem]

Top Dem Rips Coakley Campaign: “Worst Debacle In American Political History”

With the finger-pointing rapidly intensifying among Dems over a possible Martha Coakley loss, a senior Democratic Party official is tearing into the Coakley campaign for pushing “lies and fantasies” over who’s to blame and deriding the Coakley effort as “the worst debacle in American political history.”

The senior Dem Party official’s broadside, emailed just now, is a response to a Coakley campaign “memo” — first reported by Politico — blaming the national Democratic Party for failing to come through with money and support in time to save her hide.

The Dem Party official’s response is a surprisingly detailed indictment of Coakley’s failures:

This memo is a pack full of lies and fantasies — The DNC and the DSCC did everything they were asked and have been involved in the race for several weeks, not just the last one. The campaign failed to recognize this threat, failed to keep Coakley on the campaign trail, failed to create a negative narrative about Brown, failed to stay on the air in December while he was running a brilliant campaign. It’s wishful thinking from a pollster, candidate and campaign team that were caught napping and are going to allow one of the worst debacle in American political history to happen on their watch that they are at the 11th hour are going to blame others.

Before the DNC and DSCC got involved there was barely a single piece of paper on what the narrative is on Brown. The candidate in this race and the campaign have been involved in the worst case of political malpractice in memory and they aren’t going to be able to spin themselves out of this with a memo full of lies.

Ouch! Should Coakley lose — and the atmosphere among Dems I’ve been talking to is pretty grim — this is only the vaguest hint of the recriminations to come.

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/senate-republicans/senior-dem-rips-coakley-campaign-for-worst-debacle-in-american-political-history/

[Adelante]

1. This we don't need

:thumbsdown:

[Thrill]

2. Typical Democrats. Always ready to eat their own

[brentspeak]

3. Post the "top Dem's" name, then start a thread. Otherwise, why bother? n/t

[Demoiselle]

38. Thank you, brentspeak. I really don't put much store by anonymous quotes.."top" or not.

[uponit7771]

4. Coakley let Brown define her something the DNC is REALLY REALLY good at IMHO, their message is ...

...forever counterpunching and not telling America it's republican policies that got us into this mess (like RayGun did with Carter) is beyond stupid.

[Clio the Leo]

5. Remind me to point out if/when Brown is declared the winner...

.... THEM COAKLEY PEOPLE ARE NUTS!!!!!

:popcorn:

[jefferson_dem]

9. Yup.

I probably shouldn't have loaded up this incendiary OP but it will come out soon enough anyway...I guess. :)

[Clio the Leo]

15. I'm still shocked at the underpants bomber remark....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=125938&mesg_id=134882

and have you seen this?

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2010/01/annotating_coakleys_excyses.php

And there's this anecdotal tale... "I feel sorry for Obama"
http://ow.ly/Yljv

[jefferson_dem]

31. Whoa.

Ambinder is ruthless.

I look forward to watching Coakley shock the world tonight. She WINS in spite of the poorly run campaign, and the national party committees' less than spirited efforts.

[Ian David]

6. Worst since George Washington drowned crossing The Delaware River with all those shoes. n/t

[Kaleva]

40. LOL! Love to see the wit!

[Cha]

7. Oh boy.

I guess no matter who you are..it's never too late to have to learn that lesson the hard way.. that you can't take anything for granted.

[Jersey Devil]

8. This circular firing squad deserves each other

Idiots!

[BeyondGeography]

10. Guess that means she won't be the D-nominee in the 2012 MA Senate race

:sarcasm:

[SunsetDreams]

11. Where is the proof of this memo?

Am I missing something?

[jefferson_dem]

14. Greg Sargent is legit.

Politico...not so much. But here's a link - http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0110/Democratic_Party_responds_to_Coakley_memo_Political_malpractice.html?showall

[SunsetDreams]

27. Jefferson, I'm still not seeing proof of a memo from the campaign

or to the campaign. Is there another link for the actual memos?

[jefferson_dem]

29. I guess that's all I have.

I have no reason to doubt it's not legit. And if it wasn't they would be out to correct the fraudulent information already.

[Clio the Leo]

17. The whole thing has been playing out all day....

... and is being reported by a number of various organizations.

[LeftyAndProud60]

12. Well this should kill any hope that anyone had of her winning. They're all turning on eachother. NT

[TheKentuckian]

13. 2 1/2 month race with almost a month off is piss poor campaigning

[jacksondem]

16. Just a new guy here

But shouldn't the back biting wait till the votes are counted. Won't everyone look kind of dumb if she pulls this out.

[BeyondGeography]

19. Welcome to DU...we have no manners and even less patience

You're right, though.

[Clio the Leo]

24. ha ha! exactly! NT

[jefferson_dem]

25. This one's on me.

<--ME

[MrsBrady]

she's going to win...and no, they shouldn't be posting crap like that while people are voting

welcome to DU.

[Clio the Leo]

21. Oh we would LOVE to look dumb....

.... trust me. I have a full fledged "I was wrong and I'm glad!" OP prepared ..... but IF she pulls this out it will be because the DSCC and OFA saved her butt, NOT because of anything she did. The WH et al aren't totally blameless but it ultimately goes back to the candidate in question.

If she DOES win, I'll be happy ... but a little bit scared of what she might do once she was sworn in.

[HughMoran]

22. yes

I agree with you

[uponit7771]

23. I'll gladly look stupid if the DNC learns from this...

[Kdillard]

26. I wish everyone would do that.

[Mass]

30. Well, if she wins, they will claim they saved her. If not, they will say they have no responsibility

in her loss.

I think this is clear.

[PeanutsarePoison]

34. Just what I was thinking

Dewey Defeats Truman! comes to mind

[Brother Buzz]

42. You just keep thinking Butch. That's what your good at.

[Tippy]

18. Guess what another unamed source...origional story came from Portico

[GoCubsGo]

20. Worse than two stolen elections by GWB???

Really???

[Mass]

28. May be this person could wait unti tonight. That the DNC and the DSCC have thought this race

would be easy. And if they have been involved in the race during several weeks, they share the political malpractice, because the race has really started a week ago.

[depakid]

32. Top Dems look for yet another scapegoat

[PeanutsarePoison]

33. I thought you blamed people AFTER they lost

what will they say when she wins?

Just kidding, Martha, you were so brilliant you even Rope A Doped us?

[jefferson_dem]

35. Who said she's not going to win?

It's only being reported that some are critical of the campaign. She may still win IN SPITE of that...

Oh, welcome to DU. :hi:

[jsamuel]

36. didn't see this kind of stuff when Dean was in charge

[jeanmarc]

37. The worst debacle in recent history was Guiliani's presidential run

nt

[jefferson_dem]

39. Oh yeah.

Tough to top that one. And, believe it or not, the stakes were much higher for Rooty.

[harkadog]

53. No poll had Guiliani ahead by 30 points.

[NoPasaran]

54. Well, for a long time the recieved wisdom was Rudy vs Hillary in 2008

[jefferson_dem]

41. This is what millions of Dems might be thinking this evening (VIDEO)

How Do You Fuck That Up?!?!

Classic line from the great film, "History of Violence" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA11gnz9eBA

[ShortnFiery]

43. How typical. The national party is being run by corporatists and MA voters are miffed, but

we're going to BLAME one politician.

How very thoughtful and loyal?

Makes ya proud to be a democrat, aye? :eyes:

[cali]

50. MA voters are miffed because they think the state dems are too arrogant

entitiled and corrupt. politics is local, genius

[JVS]

44. Is this the part of the election where the people who have been talking Coakley up a lot...

decide to make sure that she gets all the blame for the campaign's failure, rather than it being reflective of the greater political climate?

Kind of treacherous, no?

[timeforpeace]

45. "worst debacle in American political history" Easily the most vicious thing a Dem has ever said to a

major Dem candidate.

[jefferson_dem]

46. DNC Executive Director Goes On The Record

DNC Executive Director Goes On The Record

Jennifer O'Malley-Dillon, the executive director of the Democratic National Committee, sent over this response to the assembling circular firing squad:

"I am incredibly proud of the work of the DNC, OFA, and State Parties across the country and in MA have done to partner with Martha Coakley and the DSCC in trying to bring this race home--from the very beginning of this year. And for the next three hours-until the polls close--those same staff and volunteers are going to be giving all they have to try to help get Coakley over the finish line.

"When this race is over, I'm certain there will be plenty of time to talk about the extensive efforts the DNC went to on this race but until this race is over, we're going to keep plugging away, voter-by-voter."

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2010/01/dnc_executive_director_goes_on_the_record.php

[IndianaGreen]

47. The polls are not even closed and these scum are already throwing Coakley under the bus!

Coakley is being made to pay for the idiots in Congress. It wasn't Coakley who made the deals with PhRMA, Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, and Joe Lieberman.

[cali]

49. she started flinging the mud first and she has run, bar none, the worst

campaign of this stature I've ever witnessed.

[jefferson_dem]

51. True and true.

n/t

[Nuclear Unicorn]

48. And if Coakley wins...

...they are suddenly running out with High-5's and back-slaps; I'm sure.

How the hell is she supposed to work in that kind of environment?

Sorry for my language but I'm ticked.

[Unvanguard]

52. Shut up until AFTER THE ELECTION IS OVER. n/t