{"id":1155,"date":"2010-01-14T12:56:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T17:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/72.233.35.22\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2010-01-14T12:56:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T17:56:40","slug":"yes-it-sucks-yes-you-have-to-vote-coakley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/?p=1155","title":{"rendered":"Yes it sucks. Yes you have to vote Coakley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How the hell did she win the primary! She is one of those Nancy Polosi types, an epitome of whats wrong with the Democratic party. Not so much a thinker as a left wing reactionary. Oh how wonderful it would be if Mike Capuano or even better Alan Khazei were our choice. But, as much as I hate to admit it, blue mass group is right:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Let&#8217;s get this out of the way.  You might not want to vote for Martha Coakley.  You might think she deserves what&#8217;s she&#8217;s getting after an absentee, self-satisfied campaign (why should I bail her out?).  You likely want to send a message to everyone from the attorney general all the way to every Democratic official in Washington, DC.  Odds are you didn&#8217;t vote for her in the primary.  And, you might be wondering if it&#8217;ll make a difference who wins this Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>You got every reason to be pissed, but it needs to be clear: not voting for Coakley is the same as voting for Brown.  And voting for Brown is a very, very bad thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I agree with the rest of their points in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluemassgroup.com\/diary\/18353\/yes-it-sucks-yes-you-have-to-vote-coakley\">article<\/a>, but at least we agree that we have been forced to send the wrong woman to congress. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the hell did she win the primary! She is one of those Nancy Polosi types, an epitome of whats wrong with the Democratic party. Not so much a thinker as a left wing reactionary. Oh how wonderful it would be if Mike Capuano or even better Alan Khazei were our choice. But, as much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1156,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/liryon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}