Written by Joe Tetreault | 11 January 2010

Martha Coakley is feeling the heat. On the day of Scott Brown's successful effort to raise $500,000 for the final push, the Democrat AG hammers him because, according to Matt Viser of the Boston Globe, he "would move the country backward if Massachusetts residents elected him to the US Senate next week." Vague pronouncements should be treated with a modicum of skepticism. Though obviously given these quotes, he's already pushed Martha Coakley back to the tried and true election plan of the Democrats since 2006.

Early in the race, Coakley would barely utter Republican nominee Scott Brown's name. This morning, she said it about a dozen times in 10 minutes. She criticized his stance on health care, gay marriage, and taxes as she sought to link Brown to former president George W. Bush.

"The only thing he has proposed is to continue to give the haves and have mores the tax cuts they got under the Bush-Cheney administration," Coakley said at a press conference in her campaign headquarters in Charlestown. "Not only is Scott Brown a roadblock to progress, he wants to go back to the failed policies of the Bush-Cheney administration."

Given the current sentiment in the US, one where the wrong track option's overwhelming agreement persists, despite the new failed polices of the Obama-Biden administration, suggesting Brown wants to go back to Bush-Cheney is hardly damning. Coakley's comments assume the electorate continue to blindly hate Bush even though he is nearly one year removed from office. Coakley's success or failure with this new old line of attack will indicate whether the democrats dust it off for the midterm elections this fall. After two cycles of running against Bush, they know it is a proven winner, but a Coakley loss to Brown would clearly demonstrate that in 2010, they would be going to the well too often.

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