Imagine if a Republican...

Tried to campaign at Martin Luther King Jr breakfast tribute. The media would have bashed that Republican for trying to politicize such a historic figure. The talking points would be about how such events shouldn't be political. But yet Martha Coakley does so with out any criticism.

Martha Coakley spoke to the Boston Martin Luther King Day Breakfast this morning, making the case to a subdued crowd of dignitaries at the Hynes convention center that voting for her tomorrow will help carry on King's legacy.

"I'm running for the United States Senate because Dr. King's work is unfinished; his dream is unrealized," she said.

"Tomorrow we act on the dream and we make sure that we allow me to continue that work," Coakley said. "We remember the dream tomorrow and we will act on the dream tomorrow."

"I know that he would be standing rught on the front line for health care — not as a right — not as a privilege, but as a right, as Ted Kennedy always said," Coakley said of King.

"If you send me to the Senate, I will be guided by those values," she said of President Barack Obama and King to a packed ballroom that included her opponent, Scott Brown, who sat in the crowd; Coakley sat on the dais.

Scott Brown did the right and classy thing. He didn't try and campaign at this event.