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Pete King vs. Caroline Kennedy Battle Looms
ABC News ^ | January 6, 2009

Posted on 01/06/2009 5:27:04 PM PST by Clintonfatigued

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To: Captain Peter Blood

“Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone”.

“.....and I know, I know, I know, I know, I know..........”


21 posted on 01/06/2009 6:30:54 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: Clintonfatigued

I personally hope Princess Caroline gets coronated senator, as she will be a weak candidate for re-election in 2010...much weaker than Cuomo.


22 posted on 01/06/2009 6:36:52 PM PST by clintonh8r (For the first time in my life I'm ashamed of my country.)
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To: yongin

That would really be a shame, if Rudy does do talk radio instead of running for Governor. Despite Rudy being a RINO, I seriously don’t see any other possible GOP candidate for N.Y. Governor having any serious chance of victory. It’s very difficult to nearly impossible for the GOP to seriously win anything big in any of the northeastern states, and the odds continue to get even worse for the GOP in the northeastern states! What’s to be seriously done with the “bluest of blue areas” of the entire U.S., when it comes to political gains by both the GOP, at every political level, and U.S. conservatism, at every political level?


23 posted on 01/06/2009 7:01:34 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (Conservatives obey the rules. Leftists cheat. Who probably has the political advantage?)
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To: Captain Peter Blood

Also Police’s Message in a Bottle: Sending out and SOS


24 posted on 01/06/2009 7:30:02 PM PST by NEW YORKCITYGOPMAN ('he who creates something worthwhile, never dies.'')
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To: NEW YORKCITYGOPMAN

Little typo there, I meant:

Sending out an SOS, sending out an SOS


25 posted on 01/06/2009 7:31:30 PM PST by NEW YORKCITYGOPMAN ('he who creates something worthwhile, never dies.'')
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To: Arguendo

I think a glass half full (or even a little full) is the best we can hope for out of NY.


26 posted on 01/06/2009 7:47:12 PM PST by edge10 (Obama lied, babies died!)
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To: Clintonfatigued
How can they attack Caroline? She has the same lack of experience that Hillary had, plus, shes better looking by far. Hillary's "accomplishments" included re-arranging the White House serving dishes, drapes, and etc, as many First Ladies do, and the only policy she is well known for was "socialized health care" which was such an embarrassing flop that even Democrats wouldn't vote for it and the committee she chaired to cook it up spent millions of unaccounted for dollars. Where all the money went, only Hillary knows for sure.

So Caroline would be just another "big name" appointed to the Senate, like Hillary, so whats the difference?

Perhaps if Caroline had some missing billing documents mysteriously appear right outside her office, or a worker and close friend (rumored lover) who was found dead of a single gunshot wound but no bullet can be found within miles, or a husband known to have "bimbo eruptions" she would be more popular for the job.

The real problem is, Hillary might need that job back. This Obama thing might not work out so well. Give it two years, if it doesn't go well she runs for her seat back. Running against an incumbent Kennedy will not be easy in two years. New York might just decide it LIKES Caroline after two years, and it never really LOVED Hillary to begin with, she was just a big name and big names suit their overinflated NY ego's.

27 posted on 01/06/2009 7:51:59 PM PST by 1-Eagle (Today is just another day we fight to take back our country from the socialist fools.)
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To: Clintonfatigued
>> I think that Peter King has a regular folks kind of appeal which would contrast well against Princess Caroline. King isn’t the ideal candidate, but he appears to be the best we can get in New York. <<

Ya know, this Nikita Khrushchev guy isn't the ideal candidate, but I think he's the best we can get out of Russia. At least he's not Stalin, right? We'll just overlook the "we will bury you" stuff and the fact he annoyed capitalists with that whole communist party thing.

28 posted on 01/06/2009 9:22:30 PM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: wtc911
>> King is strong on WOT but lost me with his vote on the socialist bail-out. <<

King pretends to be conservative when it suits his needs, but he lost me with his career record of being a annoying blowhard, pro-Clinton, Giuliani-pimping, terrorist sympathizing RINO.

29 posted on 01/06/2009 9:24:33 PM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: nickcarraway; fieldmarshaldj; Reagan Man; AuH2ORepublican; Clemenza
NIGHTMARE 2010 SCENARIOS THAT SEEM LIKELY AT THIS POINT:

ILLINOIS
VS.
CRAVEN EGOMANIAC LEFTIST RINO vs. CRAVEN EGOMANIAC LEFTIST DEM

NEW YORK
VS.
OVERRATED OBNOXIOUS SOCIALIST RINO VS. OVERRATED OBNOXIOUS SOCIALIST DEM

PENNSYLVANIA
VS.
SWARMY LIBERAL RINO JERK VS. SWARMY LIBERAL DEM JERK


30 posted on 01/06/2009 9:39:06 PM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: Chet 99
>> The only type of Republican who can win in NY is a RINO. Period. <<

Actually, quite the opposite is true. No Republican has won statewide in over 30 years WITHOUT the backing of the Conservative Party of New York.


Al D'Amato
U.S. Senator from New York
1981 – 1999
Conservative. Period.

31 posted on 01/06/2009 9:52:14 PM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: BillyBoy

Pete King will get the Conservative Party nod.


32 posted on 01/07/2009 12:40:08 AM PST by rmlew (The loyal opposition to a regime dedicated to overthrowing the Constitution are accomplices.)
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To: BillyBoy

Ouch!!


33 posted on 01/07/2009 12:51:04 AM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: Clintonfatigued

He’d be similar to D’amato. I’d take him.

Ironically D’mato claims to be a real conservative. I think he just said something to the effect that party shouldn’t be Dem-lite. But he had a middling ACU score.


34 posted on 01/07/2009 12:54:55 AM PST by Impy (RED=COMMUNIST, NOT REPUBLICAN)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Caroline is probably already taking a speech course. Hillary did and improved her performance on the stump quite a bit. Caroline’s main problem is between her ears, or the lack thereof.


35 posted on 01/07/2009 3:36:37 AM PST by hershey
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To: BillyBoy

D’Amato a conservative? That’s funny.. he was known as Senator Pothole.


36 posted on 01/07/2009 8:25:34 AM PST by Chet 99
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To: Chet 99

D’Amato drew the nickname Senator Pothole for his delivery of “constituent services,” helping citizens with their individual cases. What’s your point? A politican who looks after his constituents can’t be conservative, even though his track record shows he is reliably pro-life, pro-gun, pro-family, pro-tax cuts, pro-limited government, etc.?


37 posted on 01/07/2009 10:42:16 AM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: rmlew; Impy; Clintonfatigued
>> Pete King will get the Conservative Party nod. <<

So did George Pataki. That doesn't mean either of them is in any way conservative, just that they needed to PRETEND to be conservative and put on a dog and pony show for conservatives in order to get the votes to win. It proves my point that running as a liberal in New York does not magically make one "electable". If Republicans in NY can't get the conservative case, they don't have enough votes to win statewide with the mushy centrists.

Incidentially, the fact so many freepers are willing to back a RINO thug like Peter King after he did everything he could to help the Clintons gets away scot free with their criminal enterprise is proof why politicians laugh at conservatives who vow to "never again" support such candidates. They know you guys NEVER make good on your angry rants on this board, so they can continue to screw you over and your words mean nothing.

1999: "We freepers will NEVER FORGET and NEVER AGAIN VOTE FOR those who in the Republican Party who stabbed us in the back and supported CLINTON!!!"
2000: "Peter King supported Clinton? Oh, never mind. He's good on the WOT..."

2003: "We freepers will NEVER FORGET and NEVER AGAIN VOTE FOR those who in the Republican Party who supported McCain and helped passed the TREASONOUS McCain-Feingold!!! "
2000: "Fred Thompson endored McCain in 2000 supported McCain-Feingold? Oh, never mind. He was just trying to stop the big money in politics..."

2008: "We freepers will NEVER FORGET and NEVER AGAIN VOTE FOR those who in the Republican Party who supported Paulson and helped passed the TREASONOUS SOCIALIST BAILOUT BILL!!! "
2000: "Eric Cantor endorsed the 2008 bailout bill and was instumental in geting it passed? Oh, never mind...

At least I vote against these slimeballs in the primary. Many of the you continue to support them over more conservative candidates in the primary, yet refuse to support far more conservative in the general election. I can think of a dozen "RINOs" who are to the right of liberal blowhard Peter King.

Politicians LAUGH at you empty threats.

38 posted on 01/07/2009 10:56:48 AM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: rmlew; Impy; Clintonfatigued
>> Pete King will get the Conservative Party nod. <<

So did George Pataki. That doesn't mean either of them is in any way conservative, just that they needed to PRETEND to be conservative and put on a dog and pony show for conservatives in order to get the votes to win. It proves my point that running as a liberal in New York does not magically make one "electable". If Republicans in NY can't get the conservative case, they don't have enough votes to win statewide with the mushy centrists.

Incidentally, the fact so many freepers are willing to back a RINO thug like Peter King after he did everything he could to help the Clintons gets away scot free with their criminal enterprise is proof why politicians laugh at conservatives who vow to "never again" support such candidates. They know you guys NEVER make good on your angry rants on this board, so they can continue to screw you over and your words mean nothing.

1999: "We freepers will NEVER FORGET and NEVER AGAIN VOTE FOR those who in the Republican Party who stabbed us in the back and supported CLINTON!!!"
2000: "Peter King supported Clinton? Oh, never mind. He's good on the WOT..."

2003: "We freepers will NEVER FORGET and NEVER AGAIN VOTE FOR those who in the Republican Party who supported McCain and helped passed the TREASONOUS McCain-Feingold!!! "
2007: "Fred Thompson endored McCain in 2000 supported McCain-Feingold? Oh, never mind. He was just trying to stop the big money in politics..."

2008: "We freepers will NEVER FORGET and NEVER AGAIN VOTE FOR those who in the Republican Party who supported Paulson and helped passed the TREASONOUS SOCIALIST BAILOUT BILL!!! "
2009: "Eric Cantor endorsed the 2008 bailout bill and was instumental in geting it passed? Oh, never mind...

At least I vote against these slimeballs in the primary. Many of the you continue to support them over more conservative candidates in the primary, yet refuse to support far more conservative candidates in the general election. I can think of a dozen "RINOs" "unacceptable RINOs" who are to the right of liberal blowhard Peter King.

Politicians LAUGH at you empty threats.

39 posted on 01/07/2009 10:58:09 AM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: Impy
>> He’d be similar to D’amato. I’d take him. Ironically D’mato claims to be a real conservative. I think he just said something to the effect that party shouldn’t be Dem-lite. But he had a middling ACU score. <<

Let's see....

D'Amato: fairly good pro-gun record, although not perfect, certainly respectable
King: Gets "D-" and "F" even from the compromising NRA. The purist gun group GOA can't stand him. Total gun grabber.

D'Amato: Endorsed Fred Thompson for President in 2008, reasoning that he felt Thompson was "a real conservative," not a candidate who adopted conservative positions in preparation for an election. D'Amato added, "Fred Thompson is the kind of candidate our party can unify behind and support wholeheartedly.
King: Endorsed ultra RINO Rudy Giualini in the primary, bullying other candidates (you may remember that Rudy's more outspoken promoters got banned from posting on FR, proving that if King was ever a freeper, he'd be tossed as a liberal troll), after complaining his "old friend" McCain had become too divisive and had pandered to right-wing special interests too much. Spent the primary election mocking conservative candidates.

D'Amato: Thinly veiled comtempt for the Clintons. Never got along with Slick Willie during the white house years. He became a leading critic of the Clinton administration regarding the Whitewater scandal, and during 1995 and 1996 chaired the hearings-heavy Senate Special Whitewater Committee.
King: In his words, "Close personal friend" of the Clintons. Was instrumental in saving Clinton's presidency and in demonizing his own party, claiming the only thing Clinton had never done wrong is drop his boxers for Monica. The NUMBER #1 Clinton supporter in the GOP, period. Gloated that he was working hard to get "35-40 moderate Republicans" to oppose impeachment (he got 4, including himself)

D'Amato: Wouldn't be caught dead cozying up to terrorist groups, particularly Sein Fein, a socialist, pro-abortion, terrorist "Catholic" political party in Ireland whose politics are repugnent to any American conservative Catholic.
Peter King: Was instrumental in getting a visa granted to Gerry Adams, leader of Sein Fein, (the political branch of the terrorist IRA). After much lobbying from King, President Clinton did grant Adams a visa and in February 1994, King met Adams as he landed in New York. King’s office worked hand-in-hand with Sinn Féin to allow them to fundraise in the U.S. as well as working tirelessly to set up Friends of Sinn Féin offices in the states. King continued to promote and act as a apologist for the IRA even after they were caught red-handed killing innocent civilians, and attended a "reception" for IRA members at a Northern Ireland pub where one of the people he "honored" later said "the more british we bring home in body bags, the better". Some view Clinton’s support for the Irish peace process and some of King’s stances on various issues to be “quid pro quo”. For instance, King announced his support for Clinton's pet projects, the 1994 Brady Crime Bill and Assault Weapons Ban, shortly afterwards

There's probably half a dozen other major issues where they differ (I'd have to check project vote smart), but needless to say, King is NO D'Amato. The latter was a generally good conservative who occassionally voted with the Dems. King is a RINO thug who works on behalf the Clintons behind the scenes and inflicts massive damage on the GOP, while pretending to be a conservative on TV. Big difference.

D'Amato got his senate seat by defeating the ultra RINO Jacob Javits while the NYGOP opposed him the whole time screaming how he was "unelectable". King got his Long Island congressional seat by consistantly beating more conservative candidates in the primary with the help of the Clinton machine.

Just look at how "loyal Bush defender" Peter King turned on Bush like a rabid dog after Bush's apporval ratings feel and King realized he could hold homeland security hostage to get pork for NY.

King is a mole within the Republican Party, and anyone who supports him in the primary is working to elect Clintonites to the U.S. Senate. Reminds me of all the freepers who patted themselves on back for helping re-elect Joe LIEberman while turning a blind eye to conservative candidates like Jim Talent going down to the wire with Dems. Slick Willie and Harry Reid should send those conservatives a thank you card for helping give socialists the reigns of power in the Senate.

40 posted on 01/07/2009 11:29:11 AM PST by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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