WE ARE WARNED, WE ARE WARNED – AT 5:17 P.M. ET:  This is the level of desperation to which the Coakheads have sunk.  From NRO:

Sen. John Kerry (D., Mass.) thinks Scott Brown’s rallies in the Bay State are “reminiscent of the dangerous atmosphere of Sarah Palin’s 2008 campaign rallies,” the Boston Globe is reporting.

Yeah, I remember how dangerous those Sarah rallies were.  I mean, the death, the destruction, the rioting.  I just try to put it out of my mind.

Kerry says Brown supporters have engaged in “bullying and intimidation tactics” in the past few days and suggests that some of them may even be from out of state. (Would the senator rather keep the race local?)

As opposed to those in-staters, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

“I'm no stranger to hard fought campaigns, but what we've seen in the past few days is way over the line and reminiscent of the dangerous atmosphere of Sarah Palin's 2008 campaign rallies. This is not how democracy works in Massachusetts,” Kerry said in a written statement Monday.

“Scott Brown needs to speak up and get his out of state tea party supporters under control. In Massachusetts, we fight hard and win elections on the issues and on our differences, not with bullying and threats,” he added.

Right.  The Kennedy family has always been an example of genteel politics.  No hardball, no fists.  Just intellectual arguments.

Corey Welford, a Coakley spokesman, went even farther, accusing Brown of having “stoked the fires” by “smirking at threats against the Attorney General,” (a reference to this). The spokesman says Brown “has lost control of his campaign” and must “tell his out of state supporters to stand down.”

You know, you read this stuff, and you realize that some people really do live in a fantasy world.

January 18, 2010