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Kennedys shaken as GOP eyes R.I. too
www.bostonherald.com ^ | Friday, February 5, 2010 | Hillary Chabot

Posted on 02/04/2010 9:25:50 PM PST by GOPsterinMA

The Kennedy political dynasty is shaking in the aftershock of U.S. Sen. Scott Brown’s earth-shattering election, with a new poll showing U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy losing ground as he faces a well-financed GOP foe backed by Brown’s top strategists.

The WPRI-12 poll showed the Rhode Island Democrat with a 56 percent unfavorability rating in his district - a negative that grows to 62 percent statewide.

Only 35 percent of voters in Kennedy’s district said they would vote to re-elect him. Another 31 percent said they’d consider a different candidate and 28 percent said they would vote to replace him, according to the poll.

Republican John J. Loughlin II, a veteran state lawmaker, formally announced his campaign yesterday against Kennedy, saying the son of liberal icon Edward M. Kennedy is out of touch with Rhode Island voters as he seeks a ninth two-year term


TOPICS: Breaking News; Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 111th; 2010midterms; election2010; johnjloughlin; kennedy; loughlin; notbreakingnews; patrickkennedy; republican; rhodeisland; ri; ri2010
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To: highimpact

I’m sure that he forgot the sarc /sarc tags. LOL


141 posted on 02/05/2010 3:07:05 AM PST by plinyelder ("I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born." -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: myknowledge
Why are the Kennedies that much hated?

They have always been an untouchable, and sleazy, New England aristocracy. I think what's happening now is a combination of two things.

In addition to the anti-incumbent movement sweeping the nation, the generation that can remember JFK's assasination is dying off.

142 posted on 02/05/2010 3:11:16 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: myknowledge

Kennedy clan got its money illegally importing booze during prohabition.
Then daddy Joe started pushing his sons to go in to politics and they have pushed the envelope of liberalism and big over reaching gub mint ever since.
Thos of us who do not care for welfare and big govt hate these maggots.
Don’t sit there pius trying to shove your liberal values up my ass using my own money.
Other than that oh yeah and that little drowning incident, the rape, etc they are great.


143 posted on 02/05/2010 3:38:33 AM PST by Joe Boucher ((FUBO) Obammy is little more than a quota boy.)
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To: Allegra

For plurals you put the apostrophe after the s.

As in: “the Kennedys’ collective boot on the throat of America ended when Scott Brown was elected”


144 posted on 02/05/2010 3:50:02 AM PST by agere_contra
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To: Rummyfan

http://newsblog.projo.com/2010/02/ri-rep-loughlin-makes-kennedy.html

He sounds a lot like Scott Brown.


145 posted on 02/05/2010 3:53:30 AM PST by Andy'smom
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To: Frantzie

Loughlin is a Republican patriot with political experience, and will make a terrific candidate that can beat Patches. I can’t imagine even thinking of supporting Cianci, a convicted felon who left the GOP over 27 years ago. And if Cianci runs as an independent (which is how he’s run for office since the early 1980s),he’d likely split the anti-Kennedy vote and get Patches reelected.


146 posted on 02/05/2010 3:57:02 AM PST by AuH2ORepublican (If a politician won't protect innocent babies, what makes you think that he'll protect your rights?)
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To: BIOCHEMKY
I think the assassination was a done deal when John Kennedy’s father, Joseph P. Kennedy, arranged to purchase the election for his son in Chicago with Mayor Dailey, Sr.’s help (dead people voting multiple times in Chicago).

Are you talking about the primary or the general? Nixon's first term was robbed from him in Chicago in the general election. Johnson had no business being VP.

147 posted on 02/05/2010 3:57:21 AM PST by altair (I hope he fails)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Could we have a Kennedy-free Washington for the first time in my lifetime?


148 posted on 02/05/2010 4:03:55 AM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: GOPsterinMA
Next, change the half dollar design to the Benjamin Franklin version

Make it 90% silver and issue it at $5 face value, and you've got a deal.

149 posted on 02/05/2010 4:10:40 AM PST by Jim Noble (Hu's the communist?)
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To: JohnLongIsland
And could we rename the RFK back to the Triboro Bridge. Robert Moses is spinning in his grave.

You call it that?

Bet you say "Avenue of the Americas", too.

150 posted on 02/05/2010 4:13:15 AM PST by Jim Noble (Hu's the communist?)
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To: tang-soo
IIRC:

1. One needs to be deceased for 5 years before being put on currency. This law was broken.

2. Currency design is signed into being for ‘x’ years by law. Again, IIRC, the Franklin half dollar had a few more years to go before it either expired as a design or was renewed. Another law broken.

I might be off on number 2, but number 1 I am sure of. I don't have time to research now, but like all things Kennedy, they had there own set of rules.

151 posted on 02/05/2010 4:17:57 AM PST by GOPsterinMA (Camelot sleeps with the fishes!)
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To: JohnLongIsland
And could we rename the RFK back to the Triboro Bridge.

Well, Florida got Cape Canaveral back...

152 posted on 02/05/2010 4:18:13 AM PST by Fresh Wind ("...a whip of political correctness strangles their voice"-Vaclav Klaus on GW skeptics)
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To: Frantzie; myknowledge

PJ O’Rourke once said that to document the damage that Teddy Kennedy alone had done to America would deforest the continent.


153 posted on 02/05/2010 4:37:24 AM PST by Hardastarboard (Note to self: Never post in a thread about religion again.)
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To: Noob1999

“....Patches, Good Riddance It’s time for you to sit on the beach at Chapaquidic, painting little faces on the pebbles next to your fathers “accident”, and STFU!”....

What he said.

...Ex-RI resident here as well


154 posted on 02/05/2010 4:38:47 AM PST by homegroan (ILLIGITIMA NON CARBORUNDUM!!)
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To: lone star annie

People in RI, among those hurting most from Democrat economies, are still steadfast believers in socialist “democracies”.


155 posted on 02/05/2010 4:42:36 AM PST by Theodore R. (...)
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To: Jim Noble
Bet you say "Avenue of the Americas", too.

And the next thing your going to tell me is that 7th Avenue is Adam Clayton Powell Blvd and Lenox Avenue is Malcolm X Boulevard.

They have changed all the highway signs to RFK bridge so tell a tourist follow the Triboro bridge sign, he or she will never find it.

156 posted on 02/05/2010 4:49:53 AM PST by JohnLongIsland ( schmuckie schucks)
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To: myknowledge

Darlin’, you must not have been paying attention!


157 posted on 02/05/2010 5:02:52 AM PST by doberville
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To: GOPsterinMA

Patrick’s seat will be easy to take as he’s a blithering left wing nut.


158 posted on 02/05/2010 5:05:14 AM PST by IbJensen (A Prayer for Obama (Ps 109.8): "Let his days be few; and let another take his position.")
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To: MetaThought

Well, they are right. Which adds to the insult, and to the injury, that they are.


159 posted on 02/05/2010 5:17:34 AM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: lone star annie
I will be sending money to Patches opponent.

As will I. It's long past time for the Kennedys to move on. Their time is past.

160 posted on 02/05/2010 5:22:08 AM PST by ScottinVA (Glad to see Demonic Unhinged (DU) highlights and attacks my FR comments!)
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