These people are blind, stupid and willing to buy snakeoil no doubt.
To the headline: because people in MA are idiots.
So, who did Teddy leave his wealth to???
His family wealth bought him the seat and he sat there like a toad for the rest of his life.
I replied, "If that is what a Senator's job is, then Illinois should run John Wayne Gacy for office?"
Why is the song: I can bring home the bacon, and fry it up in a pan, and never, never, ever forget your a man... cause I’m a...”
Come to mind?
A friend once spotted him in some dive bar in Hyannis, drinking Jameson from a tumbler and dunking Chips Ahoy from the bag he'd set on the bar. Just like any other guy in the produce aisle. There was another story about the Hyannis PD driving him home in a stupor one night, I don't recall the details.
A “favored son” can do no wrong. He can even kill a girl and suffer no consequences.
Teddy and Massholes are THE perfect example as to why we need term limits.
“Here in Massachusetts, people understood him and wanted him on their side”
...I guess they “understood” that murder is sometimes necessary.
Where's the Barf Alert?
As one who had to do battle with them, they are exactly like Ci-cago, corrupt, bribing, vicious and absolutely without any morals or scruples.
[[(Why did Ted Kennedy win the Senate Eight times?)]]
Because people with bent over noses stood around the polling places insuring that everyone voted for him? Either that, or there’s soemthign awful in the drinking water in Mass to cause mass mentality
People like this get elected over and over again because the franchise has been given to the proudly ignorant, the equally even more proud degenerates and to those who are hangers-on and societal parasites. The vote, which all and sundry proclaim to be oh, so precious and important, is granted to the dregs as well as the noble, to the welfare scrounge and the criminal, to the mentally unbalanced and to the barely functional illiterate.
We get degenerates like Frank and Kennedy because this is what the people admire and want to lead them. We get corrupt fools like Jefferson, Rangle and Dodd because people are satisfied with them and content to be ruled by people who sell their offices to anyone who has the price. They reelect seditious dolts like Kerry or Miller of California or that clod from Seattle because they feel that people like this will ensure the security of the nation and they can sleep safe in the knowledge. They MUST want this because the elect them over and over and over knowing what they are.
I guess Ted’s gonna have his own Big Dig.
the same reason they keep electing Murtha in Johnstown, PA....he delivers thousands of patronage jobs to an area that is too regulated and statist to generate employment in the private sector
Okay, the above is a total load of BS. My family is from Boston and I live here. Ted Kennedy and the rest of his clan are well known for not paying bills, stiffing people for work, pulling the “ do you know who I am “ line, leaving lousy tips and boorish behavior.
Out local conservative talk radio host, Howie Carr has had hundreds of people call his program with stories about these people. Howie would have entire segments on this subject and the phone lines were filled in no time. TONS of stories from people who were not paid for work done on buildings, houses etc.
There was one caller who owned a grocery store not far from the Kennedy compound. The man explained credit was never allowed for the Kennedys. He had been burned too many times with the ‘ol “ put it on my tab “ line.
Being willing and able to listen to a stranger, then later remember his name are very valuable political tools.