Senate debate tonight

I don't know if it was Brown, or his teabag minions; but the commercials supporting him after the Pats game cemented my vote for Coakley.

Nothing but GOP platitudes and fear mongering, no attempt to dissect the issues intelligently, and more of the national GOP same (obstruction).

Sorry, but the answers to fix the problems caused by the GOP, isn’t doubling down and appeasing the republican base who would support running off a cliff is Limbaugh said it was a true test of conservative values.

Point in fact is the Senate Healthcare Bill. Instead of working in tandem and helping craft the legislation with a conservative minority voice in it; they ran obstruction the entire way; and are now crying holy hell that they weren’t appeased are being kicked out of the final negotiations. TO bad too, since they had a real and important role to play. Now after trying to appease them (when they were acting in bad faith), we’re getting something worse.

Mission success if you don’t want to govern, but play politics 24/7. Anyways, Brown flat out said that’s his Agenda.

Hopefully the citizens of the commonwealth will show him where to stick it.

Driscoll made a well reasoned case against Brown's proposed legislation, but as his entire worthiness to be a US Senator?

At this point Martha has done nothing to earn my vote. Having had contact in recent years with both Brown's office and Coakley's office (for the same issue), I can say beyond question the response from Brown was far more satisfactory then Martha's form letter when my 5 year old was sexually assaulted.

For what is worth, Brown stayed in contact with my family and still to this day goes out of his way to response to his constituents. Having lived in his district for 40+ years he is in my judgement "The real deal"

Robsama needs to give the "family man", BS character stuff a rest. Scott Brown is an absolute maniac. I've had very "personal" interactions with him as a fellow classmate of his daughter. I was on the boys cross country team, while Ayla ran for the girls. Scott Brown made it his business, being an ex-military freak, to run up and down the sidelines of the course, screaming his head off not only at his daughter, but each and every member of both the girls AND boys teams, literally getting in our faces by running ALONGSIDE of us, as if we weren't already running for our lives. He would yell profanities at individuals he had absolutely no relation to. He was not a member of any coaching staff (whose exhortations we welcome). He never introduced himself personally to any of us. I'm sorry, but overzealous parent doesn't even begin to describe it. This kind of "intensity" and "competitiveness" may be an exemplary character trait if you are Michael Jordan, but nobody is calling Michael Jordan a family man.

On the surface, Ayla Brown may seem to live charmed life. But when you think how kids like this "achieve" so much while they're young, it all goes back to the parent. Scott Brown is like a Spelling Bee parent taken to the tenth power. He's a maniac. And yet, sadly, it's this military machismo that Brown embodies that appeals to so many Americans, and translates into fear-mongering platitudes about the war on terror. Embarrassing.

Just got a Coakley Robocall on my cell phone. Not cool.

Boston.com's feed sucks. I'm getting a high pitched electronic whine from it, and there appears to be no volume control on the flash player. They also forcing us to watch pundits talk in real time.

Instead I just pulled up WBRU radio feed through an App on my DROID and it's crystal clear [but a second or two behind the video feed]. And the Globe wonders...

Kennedy is just in it for his platform [but we knew that], but it's all Libertarian platitudes and not a way to govern. He's got my ear, but his policies aren't well though out and would be disastrous if enacted. He's part of the group that would have blindly voted away the sales tax, then left the state to figure the rest out. That's not good government, that irresponsible, and that's not governing in reality.

Brown and Coakley, exactly what I expected. Nothing of a game changer here.

Coakley, playing it safe which I'm not too happy about, and Brown offering a slightly muted version of his Robocall GOP platform. I don't believe he truly thinks what he's saying, but his the whole position on trials for combatants is true, it really stoops to a level of pandering that he should be ashamed of. Coakley scored points when he attacked her on abortion and lost points when he pitched if he'd accept the right to life endorsement.

Anyways, don't feel better, but Coakleys got my vote.