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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: Agamemnon

Teddy was very popular in the senate, Everyone liked Teddy. Remember Hatch’s friendship? He had the same qualities as Clinton: you knew he was a scoundrel, but face-to-face he was likeable. A type of jovial, dissolute lord, with black moods.


201 posted on 02/05/2010 7:55:38 AM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: marshmallow

Patches called Brown’s election a “joke”.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/79863-patrick-kennedy-scott-browns-candidacy-a-joke


202 posted on 02/05/2010 7:56:40 AM PST by Andy'smom
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To: outpostinmass2

Idiotic enough to get into a public fight with his bishop.


203 posted on 02/05/2010 7:57:08 AM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: sarasota

“(I remember reading (and thinking)that I will be long gone before they are.)”

I think that was the plan....No one left to qualify for standing in any lawsuit. Remeber the WWI was started with an assassination....And look at all the “things” about JFK that have only come out recently....

Anyone that believes there was one bullet, one shooter is living in lala land.


204 posted on 02/05/2010 8:05:05 AM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

Well, rules are made to be broken. You have to remember that the country went ape after Kennedy’s assassination. The whole world in fact. JFK became a kind of Henry V of England as depicted by Shakespeare, except that Henry V was almost the real McCoy. The best verdict on the Kennedys was given by DeGaulle. He was quite taken by Jacky, but later when sometime talked about how nobly she had acted, he shrugged and said she will end on on someone’s yacht. It was a show, and now that show is over.


205 posted on 02/05/2010 8:07:42 AM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: RetSignman; myknowledge
You can get a pass because of your ignorance of history and also because you a perfect example of the result of a ‘Kennedy Style’ education.

Obviously you didn't happen to notice the poster is only 20 years old, and lives in Australia.

South Carolina has its own serious education problems. I wouldn't be braggin' or dissin' if I were you.

FReegards!


206 posted on 02/05/2010 8:10:13 AM PST by Agamemnon (Intelligent Design is to evolution what the Swift Boat Vets were to the Kerry campaign)
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To: GOPsterinMA

YES,YES, YES! And I still may have one more opportunity to vote against him (no one would believe how dumb this idiot is) I’m moving to VA but until I sell my house in RI I’m remaining on the voter rolls. I’m torn, I want to sell my house But, I really really want to be in on the vote that... how shall I say it? Returns Patches to the dreaded private sector. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. I’m lovin it!


207 posted on 02/05/2010 8:15:11 AM PST by mistfree ("The man who does not make any mistakes does not usually make anything.")
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To: GOPsterinMA

Wow, Republicans win in the Mob State? Unfathonable.

2010 is going to be an absolute bloodbath for Democrats.

Odds are at least 50/50 Fauxbama is impeached in 2011, and it will be driven by members of his own party.


208 posted on 02/05/2010 8:17:29 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: RobbyS; GOPsterinMA; nutmeg; Sparky1776
Teddy was very popular in the senate, Everyone liked Teddy. Remember Hatch’s friendship? He had the same qualities as Clinton: you knew he was a scoundrel, but face-to-face he was likeable. A type of jovial, dissolute lord, with black moods.

Who besides you really cares what Washington pols might have thought of him?

How many of those bastards are now going to win "healthcare" for Uncle Teddy and baby-Doc Obozo? Sure, where are they now? Did you happen to catch poker-bitch Landrieu on the floor of the Senate justifying herself and her smarmy vote buy-off? Did she say she was doing it for Ted, or just for the money?

Sample some of the postings here and you'll learn what emancipated New Englanders thought of him, and particularly those in MA who, when finally given a real chance to do so chose to replace a privileged sot with a real winner.

FReegards!


209 posted on 02/05/2010 8:29:43 AM PST by Agamemnon (Intelligent Design is to evolution what the Swift Boat Vets were to the Kerry campaign)
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To: reagan_fanatic

That’s awesome!


210 posted on 02/05/2010 8:31:12 AM PST by matthew fuller (Year II- Barak Sheikh Obama versus The United States of America.)
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To: Agamemnon

[I wouldn’t be braggin’ or dissin’ if I were you.]

Number one I didn’t KNOW he was an Australian and secondly, I KNOW about the crappy education system in this state.

I’m originally from New York, if I had been born and educated here, I’d probably be ‘braggin’ about it.


211 posted on 02/05/2010 8:34:18 AM PST by RetSignman (Townhalls ..."We have seen the Patriots and they are us")
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To: Agamemnon

Oh, I agree that Teddy is history, was history the day they buried him, because he left no heir apparent.


212 posted on 02/05/2010 8:34:50 AM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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To: GOPsterinMA
Reported in THE HILL 02.05.10

Sen. Scott Brown's (R-Mass.) election has been shown to be "a joke," the son of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) said Thursday. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) castigated Brown for having pushed to be sworn in ahead of schedule to permanently fill the Senate seat left vacant by the congressman's father's death in August. "Brown's whole candidacy was shown to be a joke today when he was sworn in early in order to cast his first vote as an objection to Obama's appointment to the NLRB," Kennedy said Thursday.

QUESTION

If they get rid of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' in the military, will Patches come out of the closet?

213 posted on 02/05/2010 8:37:20 AM PST by Harley (Life is Tough, But It's a Lot Tougher When You're a Liberal. Stop Global Whining Now.)
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To: GOPsterinMA

A fitting last gasp of “Camelot”—with all its sleaze and snake-oil.


214 posted on 02/05/2010 8:37:23 AM PST by Savage Beast (The Left promises the moon. It delivers Detroit--and North Korea.)
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To: myknowledge

I thought it was the correct plural for ‘Kennedy’.


You don’t change the spelling of a person’s name to make it plural.

Singular: He’s a Kennedy.
Plural: Who are the Kennedys?
Singular possive: It is Ted Kennedy’s seat.
Plural possive: It is the Kennedys’ seat.

At least that is how I understand the rules. Just remember though, the rules are not written in stone. Get three grammar guides and compare them. You’ll find the disagree in many areas.


215 posted on 02/05/2010 8:38:51 AM PST by Brookhaven
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To: agere_contra
For plurals you put the apostrophe after the s.

Yes, for plural possessives, that is correct.

I love the example you used. LOL!

216 posted on 02/05/2010 8:49:06 AM PST by Allegra (It doesn't matter what this tagline says...the liberals are going to call it "racist.")
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To: Soul Seeker
For decades they’ve demanded certain treatment because of who they were. They’ve taken advantage of many people they were meant to serve. Their connections were deep and people were afraid to oppose them.

No other way to explain the special treatment they got after the death of young John Kennedy...the burial-at-sea aboard a U.S. military ship...for no other reason than he was a Kennedy and ol' Teddy's demanding it, no doubt.

217 posted on 02/05/2010 9:11:08 AM PST by nfldgirl
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To: GOPsterinMA

This is the time. I wish Governor Caceria would run. Too often in RI they run really weak candidates against Democrats.


218 posted on 02/05/2010 9:22:05 AM PST by Maelstorm (We are umbilicaled to a parasitic beast that feeds off one man so to enslave another to dependency.)
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To: myknowledge
"Why are the Kennedies that much hated?"

I'll touch on just a few issues.

Daddy Joe made a good deal of his money in illegal activities not the least of which was being a booze runner during prohibition.

Daddy Joe while ambassador to England was an ardent supporter of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.

Uncle Teddy drove off a bridge in Chappaquiddick drunk and his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne drowned. His sentence, slap on the wrist.

It took Michael Skakel almost 30 years to finally answer for his crime of murder. He'd still be out free except for a book written by Mark Furhman that completely exposed him.

William Kennedy Smith getting over on rape.

Numerous charges of drunk driving etc by the Kennedy clan quietly being dropped or not pursued.

In short, this is a family that got the majority of their money through ill gotten gain and time and again have shown that they believe they are American royalty and above the law.

We in America do not have royalty. Every citizen is the same in the eyes of the law. Or at least should be...
219 posted on 02/05/2010 9:27:12 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

On Dad, the British embraced him and his family, only to see him echo the defeatism of the aristocracy. We came darn close letting Hitler win in Europe. If the Japanese had not attacked Pearl Harbor, we might has stood back and let Britain make the deal that Hitler expected. To get a glimpse into the times, read Pat Buchanan’s book. He, more or less, shares the mindset of the isolationists of the time.


220 posted on 02/05/2010 9:51:05 AM PST by RobbyS (Pray with the suffering souls.)
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