Post in haste, repent at leisure.
The hardworking staff’s rare midday post on Thursday, which detailed New York Times op-ed bridesmaid Gail Collins’ drive-by snarking of Martha Coakley, went up before we caught that day’s Boston Globe Coakley-palooza.
Page One headline about Martha’s Mulligan Tour:
Unopposed Coakley goes all out
Does the meet, greet she’d been accused of shunning
Unopposed Coakley goes all out
Does the meet, greet she’d been accused of shunning
Yeah but graf:
She remains stung by the impression that many voters formed during her Senate campaign — that she was aloof, that she took them for granted, and that she didn’t want it badly enough.
But wait – there’s more. Globe op-ed columnist Joan Vennochi also jumped on the Coakley Express Thursday, albeit in a less upbeat fashion.
Headline:
For Coakley, a lonely reinvention
Vennochi’s yeah but graf:
She was lampooned on “Saturday Night Live’’ and ripped apart in post-mortems that used words like complacency, entitlement, and incompetence to describe her failed strategy. Hell hath no fury like a political party scorned by the electorate. Massachusetts Democrats are still bitter over the GOP win and they still blame Coakley for running a poor campaign.
But never accused her of being “unpleasant.”
Gail Collins, take note.