Posted on 02/07/2005 4:51:36 PM PST by bitt
What’s with Massachusetts? Posted by Senior Editor on 2005/2/7 19:40:29 by JB Williams
The people of Massachusetts enjoy a beautiful landscape rich in history, some of our nation’s most prominent universities and the fourth highest per capita income in the country. Yet they can’t come up with better representatives than John Kerry and Teddy Kennedy. How is this possible?
One, the nation’s most prominent coward, the other called traitor by his band of brothers, our countries two most socialist Senators, the two biggest national embarrassments of modern times, and both from Massachusetts. I’m afraid this does not look good for the people who keep electing them…
I suspect Senator Kennedy has garnered support in return for the sacrifices made by his family, but at what expense? I’m sure he has been repaid by now. Can’t the old horse be sent to pasture yet? Seriously, he has become our nation’s court jester, ranked right up there with Jerry Springer and Michael Moore…
As for Kerry, well, you would be hard pressed to find a Senator with a more lack-luster Senate record anywhere in our history, his name is synonymous with traitor and if he weren’t our nations most successful gigolo, he’d be nothing at all. Can’t begin to figure this one…
We are talking about a state that produced some of America’s most respected people in history, John Q. Adams, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, Robert Treat Paine, William Prescott and Paul Revere. Are you telling me Kerry and Kennedy belong in this company?
Great inventors like Alexander Graham Bell, Elias Howe, Samuel Morse and Eli Whitney. Great writers like Horatio Alger, E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe, and even noteworthy journalists like Mike Wallace and Barbara Walters, none of whom would be caught dead at a @#%#*tail party with either of these schmucks…
Something is wrong with this picture…Kennedy and Kerry are the best Massachusetts can offer?
Clearly the bluebloods of Boston can’t relate to all us folks in fly-over country these days. They have forsaken their place in history, but have they completely forgotten it?
One would think that the home of the Boston Tea Party would remember the foundational principles of American life and recognize that these two bozos oppose everything the Patriots fought to achieve and preserve not so long ago.
What has happened to New England? Have the great universities of the north east educated the common sense and decency right out of the local populous?
Surely an area so rich in culture, higher learning, history and resources can come up with something better than a drunken old coward and a traitorous gigolo? Certainly, New England has more to offer the country than just a good football team?
Seriously, has anyone checked the drinking water in Massachusetts lately? If these two are the pillars of their community, I’m afraid it isn’t much of a community…If Massachusetts won’t secede from the union, can’t we at least expel them until they come to their senses?
Ping!
What would you expect from people like Bostonians who want to become car moles and drive around in underwater tunnels?
Sell Massachusetts to France!
As for JF'inKerry, Massachusetts has a lot in common with California: the big population centers are very liberal and vote Dem, while the rest of the state is rather conservative, but just doesn't have the numbers to elect Republicans (although we DID kick out Gray Davis and elect Ah-nold!)
How is Arnold by the way? Is he cleaning up the mess ?
I live in Texas, and our Congressman publically stated that for ever dollar Texas gets in highway funds, Massachusettes got $2.21.
They have basked in pork, like Connecticut, and so forth, because for so long they ruled the House and the Senate.
Hopefully GWB will slam the lid closed on the porkers.
And Annex Mexico! - Come on we might as well
Ted Kennedy would have been sent back to Hyannis Port in 1994 if then-Governor William Weld had run. Weld was at the peak of his popularity and leading in all the polls. But he decided to run for reelection and Republicans had to run a little-known businessman (who himself is now Governor). Weld did run against John Kerry in 1996, but Clinton's popularity rebounded and there was a viceral anti-conservative trend in New England that year.
Instead of the greatest triumph of 1994 (in a year of so many triumphs), it was more proof that timing is everything in politics. Hopefully Kennedy will retire this year, but don't hold your breath.
If anyone wanted to give the United States an enema, I would nominate Taxachusetts to be the recipient of the probe!
In 1972 I was the newly appointed CEO of the chamber of commerce in North Adams, MA.
Some member of the board of directors breathlessly told me that "Senator Teddy" was coming to lunch and as the new guy I would get to introduce him.
After finishing most of the rubber chicken meal, I said to the Senator that I was going to the john and would introduce him when I returned.
So he says to me he says: "Hey, Jimmy....you gonna finish those 'po-day-dos'
Anyone who watched the slow motion train wreck of the Democrat National Convention can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that they've forgotten it. Someone low down on the Democrat food chain remembered it, and the city donated some - at least they had the potential to be - nice video clips outlining the history of Boston and a few senators sparingly peppered their speeches with tidbytes of historic patriotism a la the Boston Tea Party.
Teddy, for instance, sandwiched a mention of Paul Revere in between swooping down on startled audience members and plagiarizing the Republican "help is on the way" line. Well, I couldn't tell if they were startled or close to being overcome by his breath. I found his performance creepy in the extreme.
John Kerry mentioned the shot heard around the world in between his "reporting for duty" salute and performing his Vietnam War Hero schtick.
The videos outlining Boston's heritage were as random as the senators' historic tidbytes were disjointed.
It's as though they vaguely remember the words, but have forgotten the language. It's like trying to speak dog : you can bark until your face turns blue, but if you don't understand how to put the words together and communicate, all you're going to do is scare your dog into running away or attacking you in self defense. Democrats talking down to Mainstream America are speaking dog.
But Calif unlike Mass is a whole lot bigger and diverse so you could live here your whole life and never freaking care about the senators cause they don't really effect you....plus Calif has a much higher percentage of Republicans than either Mass.
I spend a LOT of time driving through the parts of mAss. outside of 495 (away from Boston). There is still a lot of support for Teddy and J. F'n K. if political and bumper signs are any indication. The voters there generally vote a Republican eunoch in as Governor. (I think they get a perverse joy out of how the gullible national Republicans think they are seeing a strong Pubbie rising in the North East.) Whoops - fooled again.
I have tried to talk to a lot of mASS. residents to understand their position. Most are just brain-washed, convinced that the only correct life-view is socialistic anti-capitalism. If challenged about the dem orthodoxy they immediately either refuse to engage in any discussion or revert to ad hominem attacks and the DNC talking/attack points. Few, if any, can engage in any kind of rational discussion for more than 5 consecutive minutes.
The schools (at all levels) are extraordinarily effective indoctrination camps. Even when tax fugitives manage to escape across the border into NH - many (especially females) revert to government dependency - expecting their neighbors to subsidize all their whims and desires.
I am about convinced it is something in the water. Therefore, whenever I cross into the commonwealth - its either bottled water or adult beverages (brewed outside of mAss.) 8>)
Well, Jill, my first thought was whadayamean sell, let's pay them to take it; but, having thought it over a bit; God bless Massachusetts, the home of many God fearing patriotic Americans.
The good guys and gals of Massachusetts may now be out-numbered by the bad guys and gals, but the good guys and gals are gaining, and there ain't no stopping them.
I grew Irish-Catholic in Queens and JFK wasn't exactly a saint in our house, more the fourth and most important Member of the Holy Trinity (+1).
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