Iowahawk has the scoop, from deep within the campaign:
When I move to the Massachusetts Senora Coakley is first a very good lady. She no make me do the windows, only to bring the grocery and the morning tracking polls. She is very happy with the 30% lead and she is always the phone with Senor Reid and the real eastate brokers in Washington. But one morning I am bring her the tracking poll and she is now only up 15% and she is very angry. “Rosa! Why are you to bring me this! Throw this bad poll away and bring me the grapefruit.”
Then, Dio mio, every day the poll is more bad, and she keep yelling louder. She stop asking for the grapefruit and ask for the Ben and Jerry ice cream. She say, “Rosa, why do the stupid voter people fall for the stupid Senor Brown and his stupid truck?” I say, I do no know Senora, maybe because he is the very handsome and against the health care taxes. This is make her very angry and to throw her Ben and Jerry across the kitchen.
When I am clean up the mess Senora Coakley say, “You are the Mexicana, yes Rosa? You must have the old pickup truck I can borrow for the campaign.”
I say, “no Senora, I am from Guatemala. My cousin Estaban has the pickup, but it is need the new transmission.”
Every day it is getting worse with yelling and the polls. Senora Coakley is on the phone with the Senator peoples and the White House peoples, especially after she say the bad things about the Red Sox man. “Why do I have to know all this things about the beisbol players?” she is yelling on the phone. “Nobody at the Harvard cares!”
Then she looks at me and she say, “Rosa! You are the Hispanic like the many beisbol players. Why can no you get me the endorsement from the Pedro Gomez or Lopez or what is his name? You are not being very good to help me!”
I am say, “I am sorry Senora, I know Pedro Gomez but he is not this beisbol player. Maybe you talk to Senor Steinbrenner. Do you want me to go to the Stop and Shop for more Ben and Jerry?”
Well, it has to be someone‘s fault.
Thanks for the link. I don’t always remember to check out Iowahawk, but this was one of the funniest things I have read in a while. Of course that Mort Zuckerman piece you linked to earlier was also amusing, but definitely not in the same way.
Actually, Dems are not the majority in Massachusetts. The Independents (of which I was one until today) are at 51%. Fortunately for us, Coakley’s decision to sit back and coast and wait for her coronation, combined with running negative campaign ads only served to wake up the electorate who normally would just either blacken the “D” or stay home altogether. The excuse that Coakley lost because she was a woman is a known and very tired excuse. It may have worked some years ago, but people aren’t buying it anymore.