Martha Coakley is Wicked

Martha Coakley is wicked. And I'm not using "wicked" in the New Englander's complementary sense of the word.

As Ann Coulter notes, "Martha Coakley [is] too immoral for Teddy Kennedy's seat." You don't have to be a hyper-partisan right-wing pundit in order to come to that conclusion. Hyper-partisan left-wing pundits know it's true, too.

Here's what the liberals at Daily Kos think:

Coakley is a careerist and supported her two former bosses in the Middlesex DA's office as they ran for governor—Scott Harshbarger and Tom Reilly, who was clearly the least progressive candidate in the last Dem primary for governor.

Far more damning is her continued support of Harshbarger and Reilly's involvement in one of the worst cases of child sexual abuse hysteria of the '80s—the Fells Acres case. A mother and two adult children (Violet and Cheryl and Gerald Amirault) were convicted and sent to prison for very lengthy sentences (Gerald served 18 years) on the basis of vigorously coached and outlandish testimony from children. Harshbarger and Reilly sacrificed children (by implanting "memories") and the Amirault family for their political ambitions, even long after the nation recognized the hysteria involved in most of the allegations of sexual abuse in daycare centers.

The poor kids in this scandal were unwitting pawns in one of the most insane witch hunts in the history of Massachusetts.

Supposedly Gerald dressed up as a clown and assaulted the children in a secret or magic room. Some children claimed to be sodomized with two foot knives and lobsters. Some of the acts allegedly took place on the front lawn in full view of the highway.

John Stossel documented the depraved quest for power and money in this short video.

To make a long story short, Coakley allowed her ambition to trump human decency as she did everything in her power to keep an innocent man in prison for several years. Unfortunately, Coakley succeeded, and she built her career on this grave injustice.

Here's a great quote that sums up the whole affair rather well:

"If Senator Edward Kennedy was a lion in the cause of justice, and there is some debate about that, then Martha Coakley is a barn cat whose actions are based on primitive instinctual forces of political survival and savagery. Her lack of a sense of what constitutes justice and injustice makes Martha Coakley unfit to be a United States senator, particularly considering she would be filling Ted Kennedy's shoes."

No wonder Coakley is ducking debates and hiding in the shadows.

More

Martha Coakley: Too Immoral for Teddy Kennedy's Seat

Involvement in Amirault case makes Martha Coakley unfit to replace Ted Kennedy as Senator

Day-care sex abuse case haunts Massachusetts Senate race

A Darkness in Massachusetts (the sex abuse case from the perspective of a Pulitzer Prize winner)

Brown urges Coakley to participate in more debates

Coakley taking six days off the campaign trail