Posted on 01/21/2005 12:38:46 AM PST by ninonitti
It'll never happen, but at some point over the next 48 hours or so, President Bush [related, bio] really ought to publicly acknowledge and thank the one group most responsible for making the Bush dynasty possible.
Namely, the Massachusetts Democratic Party.
Let's face it, without Michael Dukakis and John Kerry [related, bio], there wouldn't have been one, let alone three, Bush administrations.
These two ACLU crybabies from the Bay State go down in history as the Laurel and Hardy of American politics, human sacrifices who to this day can't figure out why Americans didn't want to vote for Ivy League snots who thought their trust funds somehow made them more worthy than your average guy in a pickup truck or a duck blind.
But they were just the frontmen for the electoral oblivion Massachusetts has served up in spades. How about the home boys who couldn't close the deal - Ted Kennedy and Paul Tsongas. And what of their idiot dirty-trickster aides - Mary Beth Cahill, Susan Estrich, John Sasso, Mike Whouley?
You can pretty much throw Al Gore into the Massachusetts mix too. He's a Harvard man, after all, Class of '69.
The Washington Post had a poll yesterday saying that Americans don't have much confidence in Bush 43. But obviously, they had even less in John Kerry.
The problem with these Massachusetts Democrats is that they never venture outside the 02138 Zip code. From Michael Dukakis to Michael Moore to Michael Newdow isn't a very long trip. The Bushes were just as privileged as Dukakis and Kerry, but they knew enough to clear out of New England, for Texas. The patriarch of the clan, Prescott Bush, stayed home in Connecticut, and was a non-entity in Lyndon Johnson's Senate.
You might say he was the Senate's 1950s version of John Kerry.
Neither Dukakis nor Kerry ever took the Bushes seriously. At the 1987 St. Patrick's Day breakfast in South Boston, Vice President Bush called in. After listening to Bush for about five minutes, Dukakis looked over at the host, Billy Bulger, and sneered, ``He sounds like Frank Hatch.''
Frank Hatch, the dilettante Republican legislative leader from Beverly Farms. The Duke thought Poppy Bush was another Frank Hatch.
But that was before Poppy introduced him to Willie Horton.
And a Newsweek reporter heard Kerry calling Bush 43 an ``idiot.'' But that was before W introduced Kerry to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
George Bush had to figure out a way to get the evangelicals out to the polls. Once again, Massachusetts was ready to step up for the Bush family. Margaret Marshall, come on down. Gay ``marriage'' - that certainly helped Kerry in Ohio, didn't it?
Remember 1982 when the Duke and Kerry teamed up to take over the commonwealth? In the Republican primary for governor that year, a state rep from Holbrook finished third. His name was Andy Card.
Now Andy Card begins his fifth year as presidential chief of staff as John Kerry and Mike Dukakis continue their exile in a political Palookaville.
But this is the Bushes' last hurrah. Jeb Bush will never make it three in a row. And surely, the Democrats would never be so foolish as to nominate another rich limousine liberal from Massachusetts.
On the other hand . . . is it too late to get Joe Kennedy to change his mind about running for governor next year?
". From Michael Dukakis to Michael Moore to Michael Newdow isn't a very long trip"
Nor is it an intellectually taxing one.
LOL!
Not so sure ...
Though I don't think a majority would elect him as President in 2008 .. they might consider him for a VP slot
Did I see Stephen Baldwin supporting Bush? Isn't Alec a ultra Hollywood leftist? I guess I can forgive Stephen
s bad acting.
Kerry is a little sissy girl and teddy is a big fat stoly boy!
George W. is a leader of men!
Not a deciever or murderer of women!
Oh, but Massachusetts did something right. It created JFK. I still think that guy is more like Bush than Kerry.
I think what went wrong is JFK and RK learned a good lesson from old Joe K. I don't think any of them really believed in anything, just power.
Actually, the Boston Globe (must have been before the NYT bought it) ran some articles about this a few years ago. One article ran shortly after Michael Kennedy died, pointing out that he had made a tidy sum in the high six figures.
Here are abstracts of the articles from the Globe web site. Have to pay $2.95 to see each entire article...
CITIZENS ENERGY SEEN PROVIDING PROFIT, PODIUM
Published on March 15, 1998
Author(s): Peter G. Gosselin, Globe Staff
When Joseph P. Kennedy II first ran for Congress in 1986, he did so from a scrappy -- and nearly broke -- nonprofit company called Citizens Energy Corp., which he founded to provide poor people cheap heating oil. When Kennedy retires from Congress next year, he will return to a well-heeled, well-financed, company with interests in everything from acquaculture to mail-order drugs.
But Citizens Energy, which will once again become his base of operations, is also a firm that has been deeply
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PAY PACKAGE BOOMED AT KENNEDY NONPROFIT TOP SALARIES OUTPACE SIMILAR AGENCIES
Published on June 15, 1997
Author(s): Peter G. Gosselin and Aaron Zitner, Globe Staff
In the early 1980s, when Joseph P. Kennedy II started the nonprofit company that has become the hallmark philanthropy of his generation of the Kennedy family, he had tankers nosing their way into Boston Harbor with cheap oil for poor people.
For his efforts at Citizens Energy Corp., Kennedy, now a six-term congressman and likely Democratic gubernatorial contender, made about $60,000 a year
But times have changed since Kennedy left for Washington in 1986.
During the 1990s, the
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MULTINATIONAL TO BUY BOSTON POWER MARKETER COMPANY COULD PAY UP TO $120M FOR FIRM LINKED TO KENNEDY FAMILY
Published on March 11, 1997
Author(s): Jerry Ackerman, Globe Staff
Boston-based Citizens Lehman LLC, a power marketing company founded by the Kennedy family's nonprofit Citizens Energy Corp., is being acquired by a multinational energy company for a price that could reach $120 million, company officials said yesterday.
The buyer is The Energy Group, which was spun off only two weeks ago by Britain's giant Hanson Plc, with the intention of capitalizing on the deregulation of the world's electricity markets
Energy Group's major
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Secretary of Homeland Defense in a Condi Rice Administration in 2008 perhaps.
I think he's having way too much fun and making way too much money to bother with a run against Kerry.......in fact Tubby Kennedy is the next Senator up in 2006.
Howie's got a book coming out on the Whitey Bulger Gang and probably will get a movie deal out of it to boot.
That's what I was getting at with my comment. My hunch is this is the reason Kennedy won't run.....he (and his handlers-Joe's not exactly Mensa material)doesn't want and perhaps can't stand the scrutiny of these businesses that a run for governor would bring.
Gov. Romney got creamed by Tubby (and the Globe) in '94 over his business dealings. I'm sure he'd love to return the favor.
Nice
Not only the business dirt, but if I recall correctly, there was an accident involving a car and a young woman (no, not that one...). Little Joe overturned the jeep he was driving, leaving his female passenger paralyzed for life.
When I heard W say at the Black Tie and Boots party that he "Hadn't forgotten where he came from" my first though was, Connecticut.
I may have been alone in that.
Much like Shakespeare in the original Klingon, Howie Carr's articles are best appreciated in the original Carr. If you've ever heard him, you know what I mean.
Steven is a born again Christian. Three years now.
He spends most of his time working with young people in his own ministry. ( Skateboarding videos and events with a Christian theme.)
Here's a link to his website......
http://www.palau.org/livinit_bd/
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