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Kennedys shaken as GOP eyes R.I. too
www.bostonherald.com ^ | Friday, February 5, 2010 | Hillary Chabot

Posted on 02/04/2010 9:25:50 PM PST by GOPsterinMA

The Kennedy political dynasty is shaking in the aftershock of U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s earth-shattering election, with a new poll showing U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy losing ground as he faces a well-financed GOP foe backed by Brown’s top strategists.

The WPRI-12 poll showed the Rhode Island Democrat with a 56 percent unfavorability rating in his district - a negative that grows to 62 percent statewide.

Only 35 percent of voters in Kennedy’s district said they would vote to re-elect him. Another 31 percent said they’d consider a different candidate and 28 percent said they would vote to replace him, according to the poll.

Republican John J. Loughlin II, a veteran state lawmaker, formally announced his campaign yesterday against Kennedy, saying the son of liberal icon Edward M. Kennedy is out of touch with Rhode Island voters as he seeks a ninth two-year term


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010midterms; election2010; johnjloughlin; kennedy; loughlin; notbreakingnews; patrickkennedy; republican; rhodeisland; ri; ri2010
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To: myknowledge

Hey are you still in Australia? Great country! The leadership made it quite clear to the Muslims if they didn’t like how they ran there country then they need to find another country to go to....He was fabulous in his speech!


121 posted on 02/05/2010 12:58:02 AM PST by caww
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To: SierraWasp
I don't recall that line from John LENIN's commie tune!!! It sure shoulda been in there all this time!!!

"I don't believe in Kennedy"
-John Lennon, "God"

122 posted on 02/05/2010 12:59:23 AM PST by Cymbaline (Bipartisan consensus - that's like when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.)
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To: Frantzie

The three tramps (”sharpshooters”) were part of the mafia in France from the Port of Marseille. They were “imported” so as to have records that were non-existant in North America. They split up to three separate continents after the assassination.

My husband felt that in addition to actual players from the French mafia, they were also connections in the Kennedy Assassination to the CIA, VP Johnson, and Castro. It is likely no coincidence that George Bush Sr. (also from Texas like Johnson) who at one point headed up the CIA and Ford who headed up the Warren Commission both eventually became President. My husband thought it more than a coincidence that VP Johnson threw a party for the President’s advance team of secret service agents with lots of free liquor the night before the President’s arrival in Dallas. Also, the dallas police were almost all at the Convention center (where Kennedy was headed) instead of being all along the route in Dallas. Also, the route chosen for the President’s limo was allowed to go through Dealy Plaza even though it had to slow down more than is ever allowed by the secret service, something the Dallas police insisted on.

I think the assassination was a done deal when John Kennedy’s father, Joseph P. Kennedy, arranged to purchase the election for his son in Chicago with Mayor Dailey, Sr.’s help (dead people voting multiple times in Chicago). Kennedy took the election with a very narrow margin over Johnson and then (in my opinion) shamed Johnson by offering him the VP position, knowing he really couldn’t refuse. Tha put a very pissed off LBJ within a heartbeat of the Presidency that was actually rightfully HIS.


123 posted on 02/05/2010 1:08:40 AM PST by BIOCHEMKY (I love liberty more than I hate war.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Free My People!


124 posted on 02/05/2010 1:25:37 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (Round 2 (insert Bikini Babe here) - DING!)
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To: GOPsterinMA

The numbers are better than they would be under normal circumstances, but the pub candidate has a lot of work to do. The numbers are encouraging, but not great and certainly not in the “win” category yet.


125 posted on 02/05/2010 2:00:09 AM PST by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: Frantzie

I happen to agree with him. She’s been as quiet and stealthy as a cat waiting to spring on its prey.


126 posted on 02/05/2010 2:01:16 AM PST by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: Frantzie

Whoa, I didn’t know that! You’re saying Arlen Spectacle was Einhorn’s defense attorney? For real?


127 posted on 02/05/2010 2:02:40 AM PST by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: max americana

I don’t know if I agree with the Camelot analogy, but I can understand it from a public perspective, especially in view of how limited media exposure was then compared to now. JFK and Jackie were a handsome couple. Their young children were beautiful. Jackie was a lovely, demure LADY. Compare her to Manchelle. Hell, compare JFK to zero. I can tolerate the “Camelot” reference in connection with JFK and Jackie, but not with other Kennedys and certainly not with the Marxist, decadent, evil cretins squatting in the People’s White House now.


128 posted on 02/05/2010 2:09:14 AM PST by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: Bluestateredman

I think the death of the hiccupping swimmer was the impetus they needed. MA supposedly mourned his deathm but I think that was mainly the political and limo liberal classes. It was probably cathartic for the rest of the people.

Patrick Kennedy is a weak candy ass and the only reason he’s in office at all is because he’s a Kennedy. But “Kennedy” no longers commands what it used to command. About all that Patrick commands is the checkbook he uses to make his rehab payments.


129 posted on 02/05/2010 2:13:28 AM PST by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: matthew fuller

Then how about a Mary Jo Kopechne half-dollar? :)


130 posted on 02/05/2010 2:19:10 AM PST by chilltherats (First, kill all the lawyers (now that they ARE the tyrants).......)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Goodbye Kennedys —don’t let the door hit ya on the way out.


131 posted on 02/05/2010 2:32:44 AM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: Frantzie
Looks to me like the Kennedys are pretty well hated.

One MA voter told a TV crew he was voting for Coakley ...........until Patrick and other Kennedys came in to campaign for her.

Said he didn't want them running his life.

132 posted on 02/05/2010 2:33:27 AM PST by Liz (A person who smiles in the face of adversity probably has a scapegoat nearby.)
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To: Tzimisce
......was this the “change” that Obama was talking about?......

Heh----good one.

133 posted on 02/05/2010 2:35:48 AM PST by Liz (A person who smiles in the face of adversity probably has a scapegoat nearby.)
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To: J Edgar
No more Raids!


134 posted on 02/05/2010 2:37:01 AM PST by Upstate NY Guy
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To: Windflier

I agree about the apostrophe. People should ask themselves if there is a need for an apostrophe when they’re tempted to use one.

Another pet peeve of mine — and I see it a lot on here — is that people seem to think that the plural for ist words is the same as the singular. Terrorist, communist, etc. It’s terroristS, communistS.

Okay, while I’m on a roll, I see a lot of could ofs and should ofs rather than could’ve and should’ve. Again, if people would think, they would realize that it’s a contraction for should HAVE rather than an arbitrary use of the word “of.”

Thanks for the opportunity to get that off my chest. :-)


135 posted on 02/05/2010 2:40:49 AM PST by alnick
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To: BIOCHEMKY

Dad has a tape that he made of witnesses speaking on the radio. Not at all what the report said.


136 posted on 02/05/2010 2:50:40 AM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: Frantzie
Patches is not well liked now.

It didn't help that Idiot-Boy couldn't even get the name right of "Marsha" Coakley. Maybe people are realizing what a doofus he is.

137 posted on 02/05/2010 2:53:07 AM PST by Hacksaw (Trees aren't our "friends")
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To: GOPsterinMA
Next, change the half dollar dessign to the Benjamin Franklin version, which was illegally changed to begin with!

And they can sinkex the ex-USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) while they're at it.
138 posted on 02/05/2010 2:56:48 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: GOPsterinMA

Wipe the stain from this corrupt, immoral family from this great nation.


139 posted on 02/05/2010 2:57:48 AM PST by MrDem
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To: GOPsterinMA
I'm glad Scott won, even though he is pro-abortion. His victory is a step in the right direction, especially if his victory is part of the overall elimination of the Kennedy clan from public office.

Camelot, rest in pieces.

140 posted on 02/05/2010 3:06:52 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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