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Why Liberals Are Turning on Ted Kennedy
Real Clear Politics ^ | Froma Harrop

Posted on 09/04/2007 7:42:02 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776

Once upon a time, Ted Kennedy could count on his daily dose of veneration. The right wing hated the Massachusetts Democrat, but progressives honored him as a defender of old-school liberalism.

In a remarkable turnaround, liberals are now heaping scorn on the 73-year-old senator. Young audiences boo at his name, and the leftish "Daily Show" on Comedy Central makes fun of him.

The source of unhappiness is Kennedy's efforts to kill an offshore wind farm on Nantucket Sound. Cape Wind was to be the first such project in the United States and a source of pride to environmentally minded New Englanders. Polls show 84 percent of Massachusetts residents in favor. But now it appears that America's first offshore wind farm will be near Galveston, Texas. Proposed the month before Sept. 11, 2001, Cape Wind remains in limbo. It's been frustrated at every turn by a handful of yachtsmen, Kennedy included, who don't want to see windmills from their verandas. Many millions have been spent spreading disinformation and smearing the wind farm's supporters.

The towers would be at least five miles out and barely visible from shore on the clearest day, but the summer plutocrats resent any intrusion on their waterfront vistas -- and, equally, any challenge to the notion that they control everything.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 110th; cantdrive; kennedy; liberals; murderer; nantucket; tedkennedy; theswimmer; windfarmon
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Kennedy did much of the dirty work in Washington, but he had considerable help. In 2004, Sen. John Warner, the Virginia Republican, added a last-minute rider to an urgent Iraq War funding bill that forbade the Army Corps of Engineers to spend money permitting offshore wind projects.

"Warner was dragging American troops into the Cape Wind war," Williams and Whitcomb noted. The outcry forced him to back down.

Why did Warner care so deeply about a wind-energy project in Massachusetts? Some of his fabulously wealthy relatives own choice waterfront property on Cape Cod. That's why. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/09/why_liberals_are_turning_on_te.html

1 posted on 09/04/2007 7:42:07 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776
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To: AmericanMade1776

Yeah sure, liberals are turning on Ted Kennedy right up until the time a Republican runs against him. Then he’ll be St John the Kennedy’s younger brother again.


2 posted on 09/04/2007 7:43:29 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: AmericanMade1776
Why Liberals Are Turning on Ted Kennedy

I've ALWAYS been turned on by liberals!

3 posted on 09/04/2007 7:45:15 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: rhombus

St. John’s younger brother..ha!


4 posted on 09/04/2007 7:46:24 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( my opinions do not represent the opinions of the management at Free Republic, they are mine alone.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Didn’t J-Fink oppose this, too? I don’t see the Libs out to get him........


5 posted on 09/04/2007 7:46:33 AM PDT by Red Badger (ALL that CARBON in ALL that oil & coal was once in the atmospere. We're just putting it back!)
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To: AmericanMade1776
I'll believe this when I see Ted Kennedy lose either a primary or general election.

Until then, they love him.

6 posted on 09/04/2007 7:46:56 AM PDT by pnh102
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To: Izzy Dunne

Wow, I should of had a V-8!!!

7 posted on 09/04/2007 7:47:17 AM PDT by AmericanMade1776 ( my opinions do not represent the opinions of the management at Free Republic, they are mine alone.)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Only 38 years too late....


8 posted on 09/04/2007 7:47:25 AM PDT by The Forgotten Man (He works, he votes, generally he prays--but he always pays....)
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To: AmericanMade1776
What...???

Ted is refusing to give classes on CPR, again?

The Miss America contestants volunteered as units on which to be performed? Ted wants all the Miss America contestants for himself?

Says he will share with Bill only?

I should have known......

What we have here is another Bill to the taxpayers, and Ted claiming everyone should ride in his car, over the bridge and look at the water.

9 posted on 09/04/2007 7:48:05 AM PDT by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
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I’m surprised to learn that the guy is only 73! He looks at least 10 years older, and if I ever thought about it, I would have automatically thought he was somewhere in his 80's.
10 posted on 09/04/2007 7:48:12 AM PDT by basil (Support the Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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To: AmericanMade1776
The source of unhappiness is Kennedy's efforts to kill an offshore wind farm on Nantucket Sound.

Not the fact that he killed a campaign worker during a boozy weekend? Not the fact that he's a drunken elitist who is corrupt to the core? Not the fact that he has preyed on the naive awe of Massachusettans for half a century? THIS is what it took for the Left to finally see this blowsy mediocrat for what he is?

I guess I'll take their enlightenment where I find it ...

11 posted on 09/04/2007 7:48:56 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: The Forgotten Man

Only 38 years too late....
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Yeah, and when I look back to what this POS tried to do to Reagan with using the KGB on him, I am sickened by the fact that Reagan is gone, and this vile trash is still in our midst.


12 posted on 09/04/2007 7:50:21 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: AmericanMade1776

I know why Ted Kennedy opposes offshore wind farms. When Kennedy dies, he’s left his liver to the local power company. They’ll be able to burn it for 50 years in order to create cheap electrical power to all of Hyannis.


13 posted on 09/04/2007 7:51:39 AM PDT by gunservative
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To: EagleUSA

Ditto, not even 1/1000 the man Reagan was....


14 posted on 09/04/2007 7:55:23 AM PDT by The Forgotten Man (He works, he votes, generally he prays--but he always pays....)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Kennedy should start a gin farm.


15 posted on 09/04/2007 7:56:57 AM PDT by brooklyn dave (Time to Spank the Mullahs!!!!)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Why can’t Democrats grow spines and be for the working man again? Not try to develop the United Socialist States of Democratic America?


16 posted on 09/04/2007 7:57:48 AM PDT by wastedyears (Alright, hold tight, I'm a highway staaaaaaaaaaaaarrr)
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To: AmericanMade1776

Too many unpaid bar tabs finally getting to the Senator...


17 posted on 09/04/2007 8:00:29 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis.")
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To: IronJack

Thanks IJ — you took my words.

He is one vile POS. Can’t belive people have been

idolising and voting for him all of these years.


19 posted on 09/04/2007 8:01:13 AM PDT by biscuit jane
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To: AmericanMade1776

Notice how Kennedy’s nose looks like someone tried to light it, thinking it was his cigar?


20 posted on 09/04/2007 8:02:23 AM PDT by Richard Axtell (Trust your own judgement, as the MSM pundits are sure to be wrong.)
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