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GOP ready to pounce on vulnerable pol [Kerry D-MA]
bostonherald.com ^ | January 25, 2007 | Dave Wedge

Posted on 01/25/2007 7:03:42 AM PST by cloud8

Bay State Republicans are circling like vultures around a politically weakened John Kerry, vowing to field a strong challenger that may be able to capitalize on his fractured image and snatch his coveted U.S. Senate seat.

One potential GOP challenger, state Sen. Scott Brown, said last night that he "would consider" a run against Kerry in 2008 and that the senator is ripe for the picking.

"I think he'll get a challenge this time. I don't think he'll get a free ride," Brown (R-Wrentham) said. "His handling of himself during this Iraq situation has been outrageous. He needs to be held accountable. Whether I’m the guy to do it or someone else, I think people are tired of his poor representation."

Wounded by bad press over his "botched" Iraq joke and rock-bottom poll numbers, Kerry opted not to make a run for the Oval Office in 2008, telling his colleagues on the Senate floor yesterday, "This isn't the time for me to mount a presidential campaign."

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TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 110th; 2008; botched; fn; john; kerry; scottbrown
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
Don't you love these people who have never been to our states but feel free to trash them anyway? I get it all the time with Minnesota. Just because it's a "blue" state and in the North, that tells them all they need to know about it. After all, anyone who lives there must be crazy, right? Never mind that we might have good reasons for staying - family connections, high-paying jobs, an appreciation of winter (how am I supposed to go ice fishing in the South?), etc.

I'll Mr. Retired Army would be shocked to know that Massachusetts is actually a fairly low-tax state. How did that happen? 16 years of Republican governors, perhaps? But no Republican can be elected in Massachusetts, right? And if so, they'd be some RINO who would never cut taxes, right?

I understand completely where you're coming from. It's a pet peeve of mine, which is why I find myself defending your state despite having no connection to it.
41 posted on 01/25/2007 8:48:26 AM PST by MinnesotaLibertarian
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
One possibility is for Carla Howell to run again, and give her the Republican endorsement. As I recall, she's made Democrats uncomfortable in the past.

Regards, Ivan

42 posted on 01/25/2007 8:51:52 AM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: MadIvan
One possibility is for Carla Howell to run again, and give her the Republican endorsement. As I recall, she's made Democrats uncomfortable in the past.

That's a capital idea, MI.

43 posted on 01/25/2007 9:12:38 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: MinnesotaLibertarian

Yup: likewise, I find it amusing when people who know nothing about my state, or have no connection to it, post like they're experts on it.


44 posted on 01/25/2007 9:15:47 AM PST by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
If that happens, you must YouTube any Howell / Kerry debate. I'd like to see the Gigolo reduced to a jibbering wreck.

Regards, Ivan

45 posted on 01/25/2007 9:18:02 AM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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Carla Howell

Carla A. Howell (b. 1955) is President of the Center for Small Government. In 2002, she sponsored a ballot measure to end the income tax in Massachusetts. It was the boldest tax cut proposal ever placed on the ballot in United States history, yet it almost won with 45.3% of the vote in a state which has historically been in favor of governmental solutions. She was the Massachusetts Libertarian Party candidate in the race for U.S. Senate in 2000 won by Ted Kennedy and for Governor in 2002 in the race won by Mitt Romney. She received 11.9% of the vote (a total of 308,860 votes) in the U.S. Senate race, only 1% behind the Republican, making Howell's the most successful third party Senate race in America in 2000, according to Campaigns and Elections magazine. In 2004, Howell declined to run for President of the United States. In 2001, she released her spoof tax song which she composed and sang called How Could I Live Without Filing Taxes

Regards, Ivan

46 posted on 01/25/2007 9:19:53 AM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: cloud8
Bay State Republicans are circling like vultures around a politically weakened John Kerry, vowing to field a strong challenger that may be able to capitalize on his fractured image and snatch his coveted U.S. Senate seat.

ROFL - Kerry, Kennedy, Franks yea a Republican has a real chance in a Presidential election year.

47 posted on 01/25/2007 9:24:25 AM PST by HoustonCurmudgeon
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To: surrey

Right... he has the principles, the profile, the family, the right geography, and the appearance to be a solid candidate. So many of our candidates have seem like desperation plays lately. It would be nice to have a candidate who people take seriously because of who he is and what he can do, not just because they have to pretend that this is a two-party state.


48 posted on 01/25/2007 9:49:35 AM PST by HostileTerritory
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To: MadIvan

How about Barbara Anderson?


49 posted on 01/25/2007 10:12:33 AM PST by surrey
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To: cloud8

I wish Romney would abandon the presidential run and take out Kerry instead.


50 posted on 01/25/2007 10:54:27 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: cloud8
What Massachusetts calls a Republican, the nation understands it as a Democrat. What is called a Democrat, the world knows them as Communist.
51 posted on 12/01/2007 5:24:35 AM PST by Leisler (RNC, RINO National Committee. Always was, always will be.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT

Too late. He’s burnt everyone here. It’s up or out of politics for Mitt.


52 posted on 12/01/2007 5:25:34 AM PST by Leisler (RNC, RINO National Committee. Always was, always will be.)
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To: surrey

I’d love it.


53 posted on 12/01/2007 5:26:02 AM PST by Leisler (RNC, RINO National Committee. Always was, always will be.)
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To: andy58-in-nh
...east supply a blindfold and a cigarette.

Cigaretts are verboten in ze People's Republik. Also guns. Blindfolds? Ya, we got burkas.

54 posted on 12/01/2007 5:30:26 AM PST by Leisler (RNC, RINO National Committee. Always was, always will be.)
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To: HostileTerritory

Christy Mihos


55 posted on 12/01/2007 5:31:41 AM PST by Leisler (RNC, RINO National Committee. Always was, always will be.)
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To: Leisler

What is this world coming to? If John Francois Kerry were to lose, he cant even exile himself to France anymore. Venezuela maybe...........


56 posted on 12/01/2007 5:40:33 AM PST by doosee
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To: Hemingway's Ghost
Your opinion plus two bucks will buy me a medium, cream only, at Dunkin's,

LOL! You can always tell someone from out East.

Even if you can't tell 'em much.

57 posted on 12/01/2007 5:50:36 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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To: Flintlock
Howsabout we go after some RINOS!

Yeah, see if you can get the Republican Senate caucus below 40!

That'll help!

In the whole Northeast, except NH to some degree, al of the "RINOs" have already been gotten rid of. Now they're Democrats.

Keep it up. We've lost the Senate, we've lost the House.

Let's see if we can lose the White House, too, and get six or seven more leftist radicals on the Supreme Court!

58 posted on 12/01/2007 5:55:51 AM PST by Jim Noble (Trails of trouble, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
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To: RetiredArmy
A lot of politics is personality. People vote party, but they also vote for personalities, which is why we’ve had Republicans for twenty years prior to Deval “Chauncy” Patrick. The Democrats kept running repulsive tired hacks, opening the door for a relatively conservative Republican like Mitt Romney.

If anyone fits the description of tired old hack, it’s Jean Francois Carré.

59 posted on 12/01/2007 6:08:33 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
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To: cloud8

Well this was brought up 11 months ago. Any updates? Is Kerry getting a free ride again? I know it will be a hard road for the Republican but worth a shot that is for sure.


60 posted on 12/01/2007 6:23:45 AM PST by napscoordinator
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