Martha Coakley on Fenway Park

In the final days of the Massachuestts senate campaign, Scott Brown showed up at Fenway Park to shake hands.


Martha Coakley, who, today, will stand on the stage at Northeastern University with President Obama (I thought he didn't have any travel plans today), was not impressed. When asked by reporters if she thought she was being too passive in her campaign, she responded;

"As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?”

Noted "Yankee fan" Curt Schilling reacted thusly:

"This statement shows her elitism and arrogance unbelievably. Aside from the apparent feeling that the seat belongs to her just by virtue of her party, she just admitted that she doesn’t need to bother meeting with constituents because she’s meeting people like Kim Driscoll, and political leaders, and Democrat activists. I guess they’re the ones that matter, huh? I know it’s a “special election” and all, but that doesn’t mean that she doesn’t need to fight for this seat. Prancing around with this mindset of “Oh, I’m a Democrat, therefore Ted Kennedy’s seat just automatically belongs to me regardless of what the people think,” is idiotic. Acting as if she doesn’t need to give her constituents the time of day is ludicrous. She can make all the snide remarks about Scott Brown shaking hands with people in the cold that she wants, but that’s what you’re supposed to do when you’re trying to get elected. She seems to have forgotten that she’s trying to get elected in Massachusetts, and not in Washington D.C. - if she remembered that, maybe she’d spend more time trying to impress Massachusetts voters and less time rubbing elbows with the Democrat establishment, Big Pharmacy lobbyists, and union leaders. Most normal politicians, Republican or Democrat, do go shake hands with voters. Even if it means standing in the cold outside of Fenway Park."

Fenway Park....Isn't that where the Yankees play?