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Democrats to Nominate Kennedy for Re-Election (... and the Saga of "Patches" Continues...!)
ABC6.News ^ | 05/08/2006 | AP

Posted on 05/08/2006 2:07:07 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Rhode Island Democrats are expected to endorse Representative Patrick Kennedy for re-election when they meet tonight in West Warwick.

Party members will endorse candidates for Congress and the state's top jobs -- governor, secretary of state, general treasurer and attorney general.

Kennedy has checked himself into the Mayo Clinic for treatment for addiction to prescription drugs following a Thursday car accident in Washington. He says he can't remember driving to Capitol Hill or crashing his car.

Kennedy's doctors say he was taking Phenergan for stomach and intestinal problems and Ambien, a commonly prescribed sleeping medication. Police say he appeared intoxicated.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 10th; 2006; cultureofaddiction; demprimary; doublestandard; patchaquiddick; patches; patrickkennedy; pillhead; pt109isdown; theyprosecutedrush; unsafeatanyspeed
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1 posted on 05/08/2006 2:07:09 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

So Rhode Island will have their drunk and drug addict, much the way Massachusetts has their drunk and murderer. And if Patches keeps this up, he will soon be joining his father in the murderer column. Sadly.


2 posted on 05/08/2006 2:08:50 PM PDT by Peach
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Hey why not? If a drunken murderer can be elected, why not a pill popping dopehead?


3 posted on 05/08/2006 2:08:51 PM PDT by noobiangod
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
After all, since he is a Democrat, he is to be pitied...

Now if this was a Republican, there would be such an outrage and stinging attacks from the media!!!

Media lapdogs are ready to pour on the "poor millionaire Patrick Kennedy" routine...

4 posted on 05/08/2006 2:09:54 PM PDT by topher (Let us return to old-fashioned morality - morality that has stood the test of time...)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

"Patrick is sorry he cannot be here tonight to thank you for this endorsement, but we do have word he is on Step 3 and making great strides."


5 posted on 05/08/2006 2:12:33 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
It's the famed Kennedy mystique.


6 posted on 05/08/2006 2:12:34 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: topher

Maybe in his drug induced haze he will claim his daddy molested him as a child to garner media sympathy.


7 posted on 05/08/2006 2:12:54 PM PDT by noobiangod
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To: noobiangod

Gee is anyone concerned about this kid's health at all or just having continue as he has?! Seems to me as tho he should step down and get his life in order and return to politics down the road after he has battled drugs/alcohol. Kennedy's never seem to learn do they?! They just keep repeating the pattern! You would think Papa Splash wouldn't want him to kill someone like he did!


8 posted on 05/08/2006 2:13:09 PM PDT by LYSandra
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Using the insane logic of democrats, his recent run ins with the police and drugs is only more reason to back this poor ptitful misguided man. Especially now that everyone is picking on him.

their logic ,not mine.


9 posted on 05/08/2006 2:13:25 PM PDT by sgtbono2002
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

But will he be wearing a backless white gown when he gives his speech?


10 posted on 05/08/2006 2:14:05 PM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: noobiangod

"... it's... it's because I'm a black lesbian, isn't it...?"

11 posted on 05/08/2006 2:14:54 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("It'sTime for Republicans to Start Toeing the Conservative Line, NOT the Other Way Around!")
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To: sgtbono2002

Its for the children...


12 posted on 05/08/2006 2:15:35 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Criminal and Obscene behavior is a badge of honor for liberal democrats.
13 posted on 05/08/2006 2:16:36 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Did anyone, ANYWHERE really think this would end with his disgrace and forfeiture of office?


C'mon!!!
14 posted on 05/08/2006 2:16:39 PM PDT by Mr. Jazzy (VPD of LCpl Smoothguy242, USMC, somewhere in Afghanistan's Kunar Province.)
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To: Peach
This is crazy, and so are the Dems. I have known many people, one personally, who were suffering from "Bipolar Disorder", and I know of all the different ways it effects people who do. NO WAY, now that he has admitted to suffering from the disorder, he should be allowed to hold office.

It's not a matter of discrimination, it's a matter of being "capable" of sound judgment while in office. There is no way to predict that. Sorry, but that should disqualify him, EVEN IF the addiction issue and the "driving record" didn't. (Which it should)
15 posted on 05/08/2006 2:18:26 PM PDT by gidget7 (PC is the huge rock, behind which lies hide!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Rhode Island Democrats are expected to endorse Representative Patrick Kennedy for re-election when they meet tonight in West Warwick.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha !

I love it. You can't make up stuff like this. A few million more Kennedy $s down the drain...

16 posted on 05/08/2006 2:19:53 PM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Amazing.

They truly have NO shame.


17 posted on 05/08/2006 2:21:17 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
"Where'd you put my Ambien, beeeeyotch?!?!?!"

"No, like seriously, I need some for my drive later."


18 posted on 05/08/2006 2:21:25 PM PDT by jdm
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To: LYSandra
he should step down and get his life in order

For his own health, he should. A few weeks in a treatment center is not going to do anything beyond giving him a temporary break from abusing drugs.
19 posted on 05/08/2006 2:22:13 PM PDT by P-40 (http://www.590klbj.com/forum/index.php?referrerid=1854)
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To: Publius6961
LOL laughing with you, but at the same time, were this a Republican, the DemoRats would be after them to resign, and because Republicans have the annoying trait (ethics, not to mention character and values) the person would resign.
20 posted on 05/08/2006 2:22:38 PM PDT by gidget7 (PC is the huge rock, behind which lies hide!)
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