Welcome Back, Brian

Brian McGrory is back doing what the Good Lord put him on this earth to do: writing columns.  Alas, he writes them for the generally useless Boston Globe-Democrat but hey—It’s the era of Obama. We’re all just happy to have a job.

I don’t agree with Brian on every most much of anything political, but he’s a good writer and his arguments are usually worth taking seriously. He’s also a pretty good novelist, too.

McGrory returns with a bang—right across the head of Martha the Missing:

This is all part of a Coakley pattern. When she ran for attorney general, she didn't allow even the Republican candidate on a debate stage. In fact, she refused to debate at all.

History doesn't help her case. In 1996, incumbent Senator John Kerry engaged in a long series of smart debates against his Republican challenger, then Governor Bill Weld. For the record, there was a notable third-party candidate, Susan Gallagher, who had right-wing beliefs that eventually won her 70,013 votes. Kerry would have benefited from her being on the stage, but never pushed it.

In 1994, when incumbent Ted Kennedy squared off against challenger Mitt Romney in the legendary Faneuil Hall debate, they were the only two on the stage. There was, for the record, a third-party candidate on the ballot, Libertarian Lauraleigh Dozier, who was not included.

Both Kerry and Kennedy had the confidence in themselves, and the respect for the voters, to debate their major challenger one-on-one. Coakley does not.

Read the whole thing.  It’s yet another reminder that nobody is voting for this dim-bulb Democrat. They’re just voting “Democrat.”