Martha Coakley

I am extremely disappointed that Martha Coakley did not try harder to maintain her double-digit lead in Massachusetts and win a decisive victory for Ted Kennedy's senate seat. This was a huge error in judgment and calculation on her part, and a large loss of momentum for the health care initiative. I am a Democrat, but I am dismayed that Coakley was so complacent and overconfident at a time when the momentum for health care was not only the best it's been in history, but that the possibility of passage of health care reform has had such a long, arduous struggle. But this needs to be a lesson like the hare and the tortoise. Coakley was the hare, and the tortoise Scott passed her by to victory while she was napping. I only hope that health care reform has not suffered an irreparable blow again this time.