Martha Coakley, the Massachusetts attorney general running as a Democrat to fill the late Ted Kennedy's seat, couldn't have come up with better words to alienate the many Catholics in her state, according to the Washington Times' "Water Cooler":
Ken Pittman: Right, if you are a Catholic, and believe what the Pope teaches that any form of birth control is a sin. ah you don’t want to do that.
Martha Coakley: No we have a separation of church and state Ken, lets be clear.
Ken Pittman: In the emergency room you still have your religious freedom.
Martha Coakley: (……uh, eh…um..) The law says that people are allowed to have that. You can have religious freedom but you probably shouldn’t work in the emergency room.
UPDATE: According to a Wall Street Journal article by John Fund, Ms. Coakley obviously slept through the block of instruction that clearly states, "Say whatever you like about your opponent, but when in Boston, leave Fenway Park alone!!!"
...perhaps her worst error was appearing to have dissed baseball fans who congregate at Boston's Fenway Park, a Massachusetts shrine even in the off-season. Asked to answer charges that she wasn't campaigning hard enough, she fired back: "As opposed to standing outside Fenway Park? In the cold? Shaking hands?" (An ad for her GOP opponent Mr. Brown showed him shaking hands in front of the ballpark.)
The crack drew an instant response from former Red Sox star Curt Schilling, who attacked Ms. Coakley for being one of those pols who are "so far out of touch with their constituents it's laughable and pathetic."
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