Video: Will Curling Iron in Butt Save Dems in MA Senate Race?

It's desperate, it's risky, and it's an eleventh hour guilt-by-association Hail Mary, but panicked Democrats are hoping that a video showing an off-color remark at a political rally yesterday will derail a looming Republican Senate win in Massachusetts. Yesterday some yahoo at a rally for Republican Scott Brown yelled, "Shove a curling iron up her butt!" The comment was a reference to Brown's opponent, Attorney General Martha Coakley, who was criticized for not aggressively pursuing a child rape case in 2005. In the video below, Brown does not say anything in response to the remark, but he appears to smile in response! It's not quite a Macaca moment, but for Democrats, it'll have to do.

"He emphatically said he did not hear it," a campaign staffer tells the Daily News. "There was a large crowd." Recent polls show Coakley trailing Brown in the special election being held tomorrow for the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. Yesterday, President Obama stumped in Boston on Coakley's behalf, and had his share of audience participation, too; an anti-abortion heckler was removed from the audience (video) during one event at Northeastern University. Meanwhile, multiple advisers to President Obama have privately told party officials that they believe Coakley is going to lose.

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By John Del Signore in News on January 18, 2010 1:06 PM

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Stewart

Yeah they still make curling irons. Some demented cop in Massachusetts shoved a hot one up his neice's (a baby girl all of 23 months old) butt. Ms. Coakley refused to prosecute for some unknown reason. The girls mother wouldn't let it go and the next prosecutor was able to secure two life sentences for the child molestor. Ms. Coakley wanted to release him without bail. The person making the remark was stupid, but that is the context behind it.

robingee

Who says "Curling iron" anymore? Do they even still make those?

Clarice City

I'm still surprised this didn't ruin hs campaign:

http://blog.newsweek.com/photos/thegaggle/images/1135766/original.aspx

What's that limp little wrist hiding anyway? Not much apparently.

NannyState

...is that a curling iron down there?

Clarice City

More like a bobby pin...

Homer2323

Its called voting, and nobody wants you liberals anymore. You F'd it up in 12 months. Nov 2 is near. Harry Reid...you are next.

Health Care going down in flames bc a liberal cant win 'Teddy Kennedy's seat' in freakin Massachusetts. Oh I love it! Oh, Ted Kennedy killed a woman too.

Aveais Essex

F'd what up? The utopia we enjoyed during the previous eight years?

You're right. Oh how far we've fallen(?)

EastRiver

I'll still be surprised if Coakley loses. Romney and Kennedy were in a dead heat about month before the 1994 Senate election and Kennedy won by 20 points.

Mr. Shankly

Mouthy crank at a political rally you say? Do tell!

dr zippy

He's not stealing an election. That a moron yelled something moronic at a Scott Brown rally is a non-story.

The real story is that Coakley has run one of the most pathetic campaigns in US history, killing health care reform if she loses, and thoroughly deserves to lose. It is as if she thought the Dukakis campaign of 1988 was really successful and decided to copy it.

NannyState

So, a slick, slimy republican pig gets to steal an election because he's got a better ad campaign? South Carolina? Nebraska? No. Massachusetts. Insert appropriate stereotype here:_____________.

longacre

Can you explain how it's "stealing?" The bottom line is Coakley is a weak candidate. Ted Kennedy's own son can't even get her name correct while praising her (Patrick Kennedy repeatedly called her "Marcia" during interviews yesterday.)

NannyState

I should have put that word in quotes. He's "stealing" the election in the sense that it is a January special election that usually means low voter turnout and a large elderly vote which generally favors a teabagger "don't change a thing" agenda. Coakley is weak, but her soft-spoken approach has been buried in slick TV ads and disgraceful events like the one described above.

Stewart

Yeah, this election is going to get "stolen". Where's ACORN when you need them to illegally register a few thousand people who have never paid a dime of taxes in their life?

NannyState

Yeah, where the hell are they?

longacre

If Mr. Brown had said it himself it would show a lack of decorum. He didn't say it. It's hardly a "disgraceful event." I'd say Harry Reid thanking the lord for Ted Kennedy's death is far more disgraceful.