>> I will say that I'm not likely to condition my vote in a Senate race on whether I think that person might run for governor in six years. <<
That was an addendum, taking up a very small portion of my comment, at the end. It did not try to present it as the reason to have voted against her.
The thrust of my comment was, "These issues come up ALL THE TIME." Because they do. They came up in this Congress, they'll come up in the next, and the next, and the next. We've lost one of the best people on these issues - Kennedy - and have replaced him with almost a polar opposite, a lock'em'up prosecutor who favors brutal unethical police practices, surveillance, harsh punishment, and criminalization of anything she finds weird. I just want to make that clear.
This vote was bad primarily for the reason that it's going to make her a Senator. The chance of her also possibly becoming governor in the future is a secondary scare that was much less relevant, but is relevant in explaining my feelings about her.
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Re: As for the awfulness of Coakley
Date: 2009-12-10 15:26 (UTC)That was an addendum, taking up a very small portion of my comment, at the end. It did not try to present it as the reason to have voted against her.
The thrust of my comment was, "These issues come up ALL THE TIME." Because they do. They came up in this Congress, they'll come up in the next, and the next, and the next. We've lost one of the best people on these issues - Kennedy - and have replaced him with almost a polar opposite, a lock'em'up prosecutor who favors brutal unethical police practices, surveillance, harsh punishment, and criminalization of anything she finds weird. I just want to make that clear.
This vote was bad primarily for the reason that it's going to make her a Senator. The chance of her also possibly becoming governor in the future is a secondary scare that was much less relevant, but is relevant in explaining my feelings about her.