You may also be appreciative that the Massachusetts Senators have a prison record in their state considerably worse than Abu Ghraib.
Posted on 10/17/2004 1:16:58 AM PDT by billorites
LEXINGTON, Mass. — Graphic designer Margery Stegman took notice the first time President Bush called his opponent a "Massachusetts liberal" in last week's final presidential debate.
She bristled the second time the president tossed the term at Sen. John F. Kerry. Clearly the description was not intended as a compliment.
When Bush used the expression a third time, Stegman said, "I thought to myself: How did this become such a pejorative?"
So Stegman called her brother, an independent media producer in nearby Needham. Rob Stegman also had winced at the president's verbal triple-punch.
It turns out many people in the state where Bush's ancestors helped make history, where his father was born and where Bush was educated were not happy to be turned into a political insult — three times in one 90-minute debate.
"Massachusetts liberal is code for 'out of touch with the rest of the country.' That is how I interpret it," Rob Stegman said.
"We've got the Republic of Cambridge here," he said facetiously. "We are all socialists and of course we are all elitists. You say Massachusetts liberal, and that means we all believe in high taxes and you know we believe in gay marriage, right?"
He laughed: The state is split on those issues and others.
More specifically, said political science professor Paul Watanabe of the University of Massachusetts in Boston, the Massachusetts liberal label was "a way to link Kerry to Michael Dukakis," the state's former governor and an avowed Massachusetts liberal.
Dukakis was overwhelmingly defeated in his 1988 bid to become president by the current president's father, George H.W. Bush.
The state has not seen a Democratic governor since Dukakis, who was replaced in 1990 by Republican William Weld. Weld was succeeded by Republicans Paul Cellucci, Jane Swift and Mitt Romney
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Very simple it is a true and accurate phrase. Liberals in MASS are especially obnoxious and useless... These people should be doing policy in Sweden or Germany and NOT in this awesome Republic.
Massachussets liberal: People's Republic of Cambridge, Harvard, Gerry Studs, Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Michael Dukakis, John Kerry, etc.
Forgot Tip O'Neil.
It became a pejorative when the world finally woke up to what Liberals do to society, the economy, and how they snuggle up to the enemy.
Stegman needs to pull her head out of her @$$.
They "earned" the label. If they do not like it, they should work hard to lose it, instead of just whining about it. They behave like French. After so much anti-Americanism, when America started boycotting some of their products, they turned around and said, "Why?"
Get use to it liberal state of Mass confusion. I have already banned any product from your state in my house. Not for just the politics of it, but the kind of people like Kennedy, Franks and now Kerry that are in your face. And your weird supreme court. Hope this trend wakes up the people or cry uncle.
quik someone call a whaaahbulance
This guy really knows what he's talking about!
Don't forget the more insidious folks like Noam Chomsky and his ilk.
Yeah, I still havent figured out how the Supreme Court of Mass. can order the Legislature to make a law, what ever happend to separation of powers?
Edward Brooke, Senate Years of Service: 1967-1979. He was, of course, liberal and -- not of course -- black. But that wasn't enough to keep Hillary from insulting him in her valedictory at Wellesley.
If she doesn't know she is too stupid to understand
What...? They can dish it out, but they can't take it? Even some Massachussetts people who consider themselves to be conservative tell me that everyone who doesn't live in the northeast is "stupid."
If they were baffled by the term liberal, perhaps the Senators would prefer to be addressed as the murderer and the traitor?
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