"He's Irish only every sixth year"--former Mass. Senate Press. and former UMass Pres. Billy Bulger
(Howie just wrote a book about Billy and his gangster brother Whitey. Out next month; I already pre-ordered mind. http://www.thebrothersbulger.com
Posted on 01/21/2006 8:57:17 PM PST by raccoonradio
John F. Kerry still dreams of becoming the next John F. Kennedy, but he’ll never even reach Ted Kennedy heights, or is it depths?
Not that anyone would ever dare tell Liveshot this. Seldom is heard a discouraging word when you’re a 62-year-old gigolo married to a 67-year-old gold digger worth close to $1 billion.
Ever more delusional, Kerry still fancies that his next job is commander-in-chief. He refuses to face the reality that he’s already well into his final role on the public stage.
He has become the Mike Dukakis of the 21st century.
John Kerry, reporting for doody - er, make that, duty.
The twilight of John Kerry is nicely sketched in an amusing new story about him in GQ, by a writer named Michael Crowley. Everyone in Massachusetts, including his ostensible supporters, knows what a complete fraud Kerry is and always has been, but it’s nice to see the news again reaching a national audience, even if it’s just in a fashion magazine for fops.
Poor John. Lately he’s been on his foreign tour - don’t ask me where; all I do is read the headlines, roll my eyes and immediately turn the page - and he’s still getting slammed back home.
One of the set pieces in the GQ story concerns a speech Mama T’s boy toy made at Georgetown University. It was pretty good, the writer says, but then the junior senator began taking questions from the students.
“The pain of it all came rushing back,” he writes. “Kerry’s responses were brutally long-winded, as if he were intent on slowly suffocating their earnestness with leaden filibusters. Eyes glazed. Yawns unfolded. Even the kids at the mike shifted their weight impatiently.”
Anyone who has ever suffered through a live appearance by Liveshot knows exactly this feeling. After 22 years in the Senate, the scion of the Forbes fortune is an empty suit’s empty suit, a windbag di tutti windbags.
Here’s another quote from the GQ piece, from an anonymous Senate staffer:
“There is this weird cognitive dissonance. You see Kerry in the Dirksen (Senate Office Building) cafeteria getting a salad, and you think, You were inches from becoming president, and now you’re getting your own salad. And it’s not even a good salad.”
Thank God - and the late Sen. Heinz’s trust fund - the junior senator will soon be back in his Sperry Topsiders biking down Hulbert Avenue on Nantucket, and if this parvenu wage slave had ever been to the Chanticleer Inn, he would know that their lobster salads are . . . to die for!
The GQ story mentions a radio interview in which an NYU professor says Kerry said he thinks the 2004 election was “stolen.” Apparently Kerry’s office denies this, but everyone here knows Kerry’s people have been saying the same thing for almost a year.
Amazing, isn’t it? The guy loses by 3 million votes, and he thinks it was “stolen.” It’s beyond cognitive dissonance. If his second wife hadn’t inherited a billion dollars, guys in white coats would be sneaking up behind him with a net.
But Kerry is running again, it’s his destiny, it’s why his initials are JFK. That’s why his equally crazy younger brother Cam Kerry wanted to run for secretary of state this year, to set himself up to run for what would have been the open “Kerry” Senate seat in 2008.
Anyway, it’s a funny story in GQ, and I can only hope it’s read by one group of people in particular - Kerry’s fellow snot-nosed, trust-funded Birkenstock-wearing layabouts who refuse to peel those absurd Kerry-Edwards bumper stickers off their new Volvos.
OMG! Kerry posting at Daily Kos? hahahahahaha
What a loser.
Same kind of deal.
It's interesting that you parrot the MSM with the assertion that it all came down to Ohio. Do you realize that Bush lost WI by about 10,000 votes, much closer than OH, and if Bush had won WI, OH was a non factor? It's true that Kerry would have won the election if he got OH, however, there were many more states much closer than OH that had just as much impact.
MoodyBlu
But there's plenty of left-wing nuts in Boston (I've worked with too many of them) -- where do you think Harvard grads and wannabes and hangers-on go?
I'm Irish Catholic myself and lived in South Boston all my life; I know lots of people who will vote for a conservative even if he's Republican, but don't want to register as Republican because of the old discrimination and "Republicans are for the rich and big business," which was probably true enough, certainly 50 years ago. Nowadays, the politicians around MA all look out for themselves first, and for most of them that involves not offending the national Dems.
I can't think of a Northeast Republican who would qualify as conservative by FR's standards. Most of them fit in quite well with the Beacon Hill gang, and one hand washes the other. (Romney apparently tries -- somewhat sporadically -- but he strikes me as a wimp, fundamentally unprincipled as soon as he meets opposition.)
Coupla maroons we got here.
Yes, the Herald is the conservative paper in town. The Globe is...well, the NY Times Jr.
>>A right-leaning paper in a left-leaning town!
Not only that, but conservatalk stations WRKO (Howie,
3-7 pm) and WTKK actually blow away Air America in
the ratings! (Though there is another conservatalker in
town, WTTT, that doesn't show up in ratings...but still,
amazing how well conservative talk does here in town.
This is not just an atypical column for that paper. Howie has served them well for years, and the paper proves we're not _totally_ a socialist utopia (even if most of our office-holders do tend to be Democrats).
Years ago, when there was (maybe still is) a cross-ownership
rule, a certain senator whose family (hint, hint) was often
hammered by the Herald tried to force Rupert Murdoch (then
Herald owner) to sell either the paper or the local
Fox station. He wound up selling the Fox station (though later Fox re-bought it). This Senator would have loved to see the Herald be sold and perhaps forced out of business.
Which senator? Ted Kennedy (D-UI)
"He's Irish only every sixth year"--former Mass. Senate Press. and former UMass Pres. Billy Bulger
(Howie just wrote a book about Billy and his gangster brother Whitey. Out next month; I already pre-ordered mind. http://www.thebrothersbulger.com
>> I already pre-ordered mind.
yikes! Sorry for typos (I type fast and don't always proof
it). _mine_; also _Pres_ not _Press_
You have hit on it. Hillary will be allowed to beat the so called heavyweights of the party, its last two nominees. The beast will then appear strong and inevitable.
>> riding his motorcycle,
Yes, he did:
From a Howie column in Feb of 04:
>>Yet that same year, he was somehow able to scrape together $8,600 for a brand-new, imported Italian motorcycle, a Ducati Paso 907 IE. He kept it for years, until he decided to run for president, at which time he traded it in for a Harley-Davidson like the one he rode onto "The Tonight Show" set a couple of months ago as Jay Leno applauded his fellow Bay Stater.
The whole column: http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=1510
>>and now you’re getting your own salad.
Yup--from my Christmas song spoof about him to the tune of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas:
You'll be just one more lib in the Senate
Thanks to W
You won't live on Pennsylvania Avenue
(bridge)Ketchup heiress has lots of dough
Lots and lots of dough, to spend
It won't buy you the White House though
For the voters know, my friend
"Howard Dean is a physician, too."
Who told you that? A little duck?
I'll bet you he said, "Quack! Quack!"
:-)
really? you find it surprising even after all the junk the media tried? remember what Dan Rather tried to pull? the miracle is that GWB overcame all that...
A kerry-hildebeast confrontation would be a bloodbath I'd be willing to pay to see.
Hillary will be allowed to beat the so called heavyweights of the party
I think you're right. However she is doing in the polls now doesn't matter. The Clintons run the Dem party and they'll do a smoke and mirrors trick and Hillary will emerge as the nomination for Prez. Then I would prepare to see the biggest vote fraud ever.
I was too young, but my parents were for Goldwater
My Dad was very avid on Goldwater. After the election he said that America turned down the most honest politician (of the time).
"Kerry has sunk so low that he has resorted to blogging on Daily KOS. He posted his first entry on Friday. KOS himself, has confirmed that this is the real deal.
Kerry is a pathetic loser who just can't let his 2004 election whipping go."
Can anyone imagine GWB, if he lost an election, blogging and whining on FR or any other blog site? He'd rather cut a tree or ride a bike.
If it's Hillary or McCain, do you really have a choice not to vote ? Think about it.
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