We hear a lot from the Democrats about the supposed need for “decorum.”   Whether it’s those evil Republicans and their “dirty tricks,” or someone daring to call a lying president a liar, they’re constantly complaining about the alleged lack of civility.  Apparently no one told Martha Coakley.

First, we had the Dems outright lie about Brown wanting emergency rooms to turn away rape victims:

Frankly, this one doesn’t deserve much comment.  Even far left pundits have recognized how absurd it is.   The “rape flier” has drawn far more scorn than support, and its release coincided with a Coakley drop in the polls.  Congrats, Martha. 

By the way, maybe it’s me, but a state that’s been run almost entirely by Democrats for the last 40 years may not want to be bragging about their high number of annual rapes…..just sayin’.

Then, Coakley attacked Brown for not supplying his campaign workers with health care insurance.  She completely ignored the fact that those workers who didn’t already have insurance were paid more, so they could purchase it themselves through the Massachusetts health care exchange – itself a prototype for exactly the kind of system Coakley has been campaigning for.  Chalk up another lie, and another dip in the polls.

Martha continued the “throw every lie possible at the wall and hope something sticks” method of campaigning by bizarrely claiming that Red Sox great Curt Schilling is a Yankees fan.  Schilling is, of course supporting Brown in the race.  Now, in the rest of the country, this might not seem like a big deal, but in Red Sox territory?  This is tantamount to sacrilege.

More trouble, more bad poll numbers.

So, they had to bring in the big guns.  Barack Obama.  “The One.”

Obama spent Sunday running around, yapping about how anyone “can buy a truck,” referring to Brown’s truck-based campaign tour of the state.  I’m not exactly sure what his point was.  Perhaps he thinks Coakley should have bought a truck too, y’know, since anyone can.  Maybe, had Democrats taken the race seriously, and driven around a bit, she might not be getting swamped at the last minute.  Whatever he was trying to say, audiences were not particularly interested.  The President looked tired, off his game, and unsure of himself as the crowds got ugly…

The protesters were mainly angry about abortion, an issue fired up by Coakley’s disasterous comments that Catholics “Can have religious freedom, but probably shouldn’t work in an emergency room.”  That said, maybe some of them were a little ticked off at the notion that the President thinks anyone can buy a truck.  Given the massive level of U.S. unemployment, trucks are clearly out of some people’s reach.  The DNC might do well to remember that increasingly, their policies are seen as the reason why.

Now, in the face of possible defeat, the blame game has started.  The DNC narrative is that Coakley ran a terrible campaign, that she ignored her challenger until it was almost too late.  If she loses, she’ll be thrown under the world’s biggest bus and consigned to the dustbin of history.  While Coakley has definitely managed to screw up at nearly every turn, placing the sole blame upon her shoulders willfully misses a much larger point. 

The Democrats are losing Massachusetts because their national policies are so disastrously unpopular.

Denial of this fact may hold their party together in the short term, but it’s destroying it in the long view.  Obama, Reid, Pelosi, and their congressional allies staunchly refuse to read the writing on the wall.  America doesn’t want what their selling.  The harder they press for it, the worse things are going to get for them.

Welcome to 2010 Dems.  Enjoy it while you can.  This is the easy part.

- Robert Laurie