As inevitably as death and taxes, the Boston Globe has come out for Martha Coakley for Senator from Massachusetts.
What’s far more interesting than the completely expected endorsement is the way the paper did it: tepidly. The editors could barely muster up an ounce of energy for the job. What a lackluster writeup! It reads as though it took them every ounce of spin they possessed in order to find some semi-nice things to say about Coakley, and some semi-bad things to say about Brown. They barely made it, and to do so they had to leave out a host of negatives about Coakley, some of them previously covered in the pages of their own paper.
But best of all are the comments. A locustlike swarm of Brown supporters seems to have descended on the Globe to feed off its rotting carcass.
Previously a lifelong Democrat, born in New York and living in New England, surrounded by liberals on all sides, I've found myself slowly but surely 
January 14th, 2010 at 3:07 pm
The Globe endorses Ham Sandwich (D)? Will the wonders ever cease?
I love the comments. Hope stirs…
January 14th, 2010 at 9:03 pm
And all the Globe columnists add their sniffs about how dishonest and unprepared and incompetent and just plain wrong on the issues Scott Brown is, unlike Martha Coakley, who would be the first woman Senator from Massachusettes.
Amazingly, James Carroll hasn’t roused up yet to complain about the moral failure of Scott Brown and the likely nuclear war that would result from his election.