DEMOCRAT DEMENTIA: COAKLEY FLOUNDERS, BUSH TO BLAME

UPDATE: James, penning The Reaganite Republican, has a great round-up on bloggers covering the Brown v. Coakley race.

Fully a year after George Bush left office, Democrats continue to play pin the blame on Bush for all that ails us now. And the Democrat base, as represented by retired school teacher Rosemary Kverek, continues to exhibit its propensity for very poor reasoning (as well as basic math) skills on precisely who's at fault for the economic morass in which we find ourselves today. Not to be out-shined by former teacher Ms. Kverek in the blame game, Ted Kennedy's son, Patrick (D-RI) appears to think that the Democrats should spend even more time blaming Bush and the Republicans for Chris Dodd and Barney Frank's collusive criminality with the Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac Ponzi scheme. From Hotline OnCall, comes this piece:

After Obama Rally, Dems Pin Blame On Bush

By Felicia Sonmez

As audience members streamed out of Pres. Obama's rally on behalf of AG Martha CoakleyGeorge W. Bush. (D) here tonight, the consensus was that the fault for Coakley's now-floundering MA SEN bid lies with one person --

"People are upset because there's so many problems," Rosemary Kverek, 70, a retired Charleston schoolteacher said as tonight's rally wrapped up. "But the problems came from the previous administration. So we're blaming poor Obama, who's working 36 hours a day ... to solve these problems that he inherited."

Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-RI), speaking with a gaggle of reporters after the event, said that while state Sen. Scott Brown (R) offers voters a quick fix, in reality, the problems created by "George Bush and his cronies" are not so easily solved.

"If you think there's magic out there and things can be turned around overnight, then you would vote for someone who could promise you that, like Scott Brown," Kennedy said. "If you don't, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole ... then you know we have a lot of digging to do, but some work needs to be done and this president's in the process of doing it and we need to get Marcia Coakley to help him to do that."

(Curiously, Kennedy mentioned Coakley repeatedly during his remarks to reporters, each time referring to her as "Marcia," not "Martha.")

More Kennedy: "One thing the Democrats have done wrong? We haven't kept the focus on this disaster on the Republicans who brought it upon us. We've tried too hard to do that right thing, and that's to fix it, as opposed to spend more of our time and energy pointing the finger at who got us [here] in the first place."

Blaming their problems on Bush does carry a risk for Dems, however -- with their sights so firmly focused on the past, Brown's campaign has managed to wrest the "change" mantle from them.

Meanwhile, even as Kennedy took on both Bush and Brown head-on, some attendees were more muted in their criticism of Brown.

"I mean, he is handsome," Christine DiPitro, 61, of Malden, said of Brown.

"He does appeal to the regular guy with his truck, but that's about all."