Originally Posted by djplong

The problem is that Scott Brown is not the kind of Republican that MA voters can embrace. Of course, that he's this close AT ALL is more an indictment of Martha Coakley (who still hasn't apologized for her witch hunts of a couple decades ago).

There really isn't that much of a difference in some areas that should really matter. Both of them want a more intrusive government.

Scott Brown thinks it's ok to deny you your civil rights - all they have to do is call you a terrorist. Doesn't matter whether you are or not. A quote from one of his ads (I see them every morning on the news) says that he doesn't believe "the Constitution was designed to protect terrorists who want to harm us". So you're convicted, in his eyes, before the trial. It says in the Constitution that you must be indicted by a Grand Jury - and since 1215, the Magna Carta (which was law in the American Colonies before the revolution) says "No free man shall be captured, and or imprisoned, or disseised of his freehold, and or of his liberties, or of his free customs, or be outlawed, or exiled, or in any way destroyed, nor will we proceed against him by force or proceed against him by arms, but by the lawful judgment of his peers". Never mind the fact that he thinks it's wrong to allow a rape victim to have a 'morning after' pill and also supports more tax cuts (with no explanation of how to solve our spending problems).

Martha Coakley, on the other hand, belongs in prison. She became District Attorney in 1999 and the infamous Fells Acres Day Care case against the Amirault family had come up.. She prevented an onnocent man from being release even though a parole board realized that there'd been a horrible miscarriage of justice. The Amiraul family was found guilty of horrendous child abuse despite there being wildly contradictory testimony by children who were coached by 'therapists' and a COMPLETE, UTTER and TOTAL LACK of ANY physical evidence. Supposedly children were being raped in the front yard in full view of the highway - yet nobody ever saw this. There were supposedly "secret rooms" that were either in non-existant upstairs or downstairs floors, depending on which kid/therapist combo you listened to. There were animal sacrifices that supposedly took places staining carpets that were clean as a whistle. Unbelievable stuff that then had Coakley at the forefront of denying parole (despite a pareole board voting 5-0 to release Gerald Amirault) - she couldn't stand to let an innocent man free on her watch because it would look like it was her fault he was in prison in the first place. She has never so much as apologized for her actions.

Neither is a good choice in this election.