Probably the best single line from the senate race up in Massachusetts was Scott Brown’s response to David Gergen during the debate with Marsha Coakley and Joseph Kennedy. Gergen asked Brown a question having to do with sitting in “Teddy Kennedy’s seat”, to which Brown famously responded “…with all due respect, it’s not the Kennedys’ seat, and it’s not the Democrats’ seat, it’s the people’s seat.“.

On Friday, the Coakley campaign released a video by Ted Kennedy’s widow, Vicki Kennedy, in which she says the following:

“Tuesday’s election is to fill the term my husband didn’t have a chance to complete,” Vicki Kennedy says. “But it’s not the Kennedy seat. It’s the peoples’ seat.”

I don’t know what’s worse for the Coakley camp – the fact that they somehow felt they could get away with….uh, “co-opting” their opponent’s defining line without anyone noticing, or that they release an ad that reminds everyone how thoroughly Scott Brown dispatched their candidate in the debate.

…and yes, I know it’s not ‘Marsha’. Somebody tell Patrick Kennedy though. (My favorite tweet of the day comes from this guy, who wrote “if Martha Coakley was a brand of gin Patrick Kennedy would remember the name…“)

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-Cnation