“First Martha Coakley refused to debate her opponent, then she avoids meeting with Massachusetts voters at all costs and now her campaign is resorting to physical intimidation in response to a reporter who was attempting to ask a relevant question about her confusing and misguided position on Afghanistan.”

And yet the GOP is chiding Coakley for focusing on non-issues that distract voters from the real issues. That’s comedy.

And the whole “Martha Coakley avoided debating Scott Brown” accusation is asinine, inaccurate, and disgustingly arrogant. She was there to debate not just Brown, but the other candidate who will appear on Tuesday’s ballot; this was a three-way race, not a two-way as much as the Republican Party wishes otherwise (poor babies, their candidate had to participate in a fully inclusive political process).

The GOP wanted to shut Joe Kennedy out of the debates when he had as much right to be there as Coakley or Brown, and Coakley didn’t play into the game, and wound up showing more respect for the voting public than Brown and his people claim they show: Brown has repeatedly crowed about how this isn’t a race for Ted Kennedy’s seat, but the “people’s seat.”

Well, Senator Brown, Joe collected signatures from at least 10,000 registered voters…you know, the people to whom the seat belongs.