Like most of the rest of you, I've been getting hammered for days now, by email, phone, text message; from senators, governors, House reps, activist groups, even the President, to support Martha Coakley in her chase for the Massachusetts seat in the US Senate.
Up till now, I haven't posted here my reasons for not supporting her. But this devastating piece by Dorothy Rabinowitz sums up all my concerns. Here's a taste:
If the current attorney general of Massachusetts actually believes, as no serious citizen does, the preposterous charges that caused the Amiraults to be thrown into prison—the butcher knife rape with no blood, the public tree-tying episode, the mutilated squirrel and the rest—that is powerful testimony to the mind and capacities of this aspirant to a Senate seat.
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