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The Kennedy Joke (Patches taking more hits)
American Spectator ^ | 2-8-10 | Daniel Flynn

Posted on 02/08/2010 12:04:18 PM PST by STARWISE

Rep. Patrick Kennedy has come out swinging against the man who now sits in the Senate seat his father held for 47 years. Telling a blog for the Hill newspaper that Senator Scott Brown was "in the tank for the Republicans," the Rhode Island Democrat called Brown's candidacy a "joke."

The putdown is a familiar one for the Kennedy family. Forty-eight years ago, a thirty-year-old Ted Kennedy heard the same taunt from his primary opponent, Massachusetts Attorney General Edward McCormack: "If his name was Edward Moore, with his qualifications -- with your qualifications, Teddy -- if it was Edward Moore, your candidacy would be a joke. But nobody's laughing because his name is not Edward Moore. It's Edward Moore Kennedy."

Kennedy, after all, had never held a steady paying job, save for a two-year stint in the Army, prior to winning the Senate seat. At Harvard he had been kicked out for cheating and at the University of Virginia's law school he had led police on drunken high speed chases.

The young playboy's appearance on the Senate floor a day after his election must have struck observers then the way Senator Paris Hilton would appear to us today.

Though the shoe fit for Ted Kennedy back in 1962, the "joke" tag seems an odd one for Senator Scott Brown. Brown's father didn't buy him the election.

Instead of the advantages of name and money enjoyed by the Kennedys, Scott Brown faced a 31-point deficit in the polls less than two months before his election.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Rhode Island
KEYWORDS: 111th; ambienincharge; ambiensseat; brainonambien; kennedyfamily; noaccountability; patches; patrickkennedy; rhodeisland; ri2010; senscottbrown; tas
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1 posted on 02/08/2010 12:04:18 PM PST by STARWISE
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To: onyx; Liz; maggief; Bahbah; hoosiermama; GOPsterinMA; jhw61; Sparky1776; Madame Dufarge; nutmeg; ...

~~PING!


2 posted on 02/08/2010 12:05:55 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: STARWISE

Patches is likely going down in November. 56% disapproval in RI.

Stay off the roads.


3 posted on 02/08/2010 12:06:58 PM PST by Col Frank Slade
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To: Col Frank Slade

You want a joke?????

Loke at that bloated carcass, that guy who let a girl to smother to death in a vehicle, submerged in cold water and possibly carrying his own child. Look at a family whose members are addicted to alcohol, self-destruction and self-loathing as Americans. Look at a family like this which was re-elected time and again in Massachusetts.

Look at yourself, Kennedy.


4 posted on 02/08/2010 12:10:58 PM PST by ZULU (Hey Obama, how DO you pronounce "corpsman"?????)
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To: STARWISE

Laughlin announces bid for another “People’s Seat”

http://www.projo.com/news/content/loughlin_announces_02-05-10_IRHBJ5S_v23.3cf48fd.html


5 posted on 02/08/2010 12:12:11 PM PST by Sparky1776
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To: STARWISE
I think Patrick's toast.

He's a mistake Rhode Island can't afford to make any more. Only a society experiencing good times can afford to put up with the fools.

6 posted on 02/08/2010 12:17:07 PM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Sparky1776

Looks promising for Laughlin. He said all the right things.

The RNC should support long shots like Laughlin - in the interest of integrity and courage.

It probably will now that the polls have Kennedy’s disapproval ratings.


7 posted on 02/08/2010 12:19:43 PM PST by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption.)
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To: STARWISE

More carbon dioxide filled hot air from a family that just recently crawled out of the low end of the gene pool.


8 posted on 02/08/2010 12:20:14 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: Madame Dufarge

Anybody see the irony in a Republican being in the tank for . . . Republicans?

As opposed to being in the tank for . . . what?


9 posted on 02/08/2010 12:22:28 PM PST by StAntKnee (I keep thinking I'm gonna wake up from this dream theatre of the absurd.)
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To: StAntKnee
It would be an idiotic statement for anyone but Patches.

For him, perfectly consistent.

10 posted on 02/08/2010 12:24:08 PM PST by Madame Dufarge
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To: Col Frank Slade

Patches stumbled out of rehab to make a statement. Beating him and winning Murtha’s seat should be TOP priority.


11 posted on 02/08/2010 12:26:03 PM PST by omega4179 (NOT TRUE.)
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To: STARWISE

It must really suck right now to be a Kennedy. Can’t think of a better example for it to happen to though, and can’t wait to watch “Patches” pack up his stuff and get the hell out of D.C. when his lil’ ol’ butt gets kicked out in the oncoming elections.


12 posted on 02/08/2010 12:29:42 PM PST by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: ZULU

save for a two-year stint in the Army

That was really a four year obligation, but Teddy was too stupid to read the contract. Daddy got it reduced to two. The start of exceptions for the asshole, other than getting out of cheating in College.


13 posted on 02/08/2010 12:35:12 PM PST by mortal19440
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To: STARWISE

Someone should photoshop a message on his hand.


14 posted on 02/08/2010 12:38:27 PM PST by IM2MAD
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To: STARWISE

In the tank????
Was Patches referring to the all too familiar drunk tank?


15 posted on 02/08/2010 12:39:06 PM PST by rod1
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To: Col Frank Slade
LOL ..


16 posted on 02/08/2010 12:39:09 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: ZULU

17 posted on 02/08/2010 12:41:33 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: Sparky1776

Yes .. woo hoo! Taking our country back,
one seat at a time.


18 posted on 02/08/2010 12:42:33 PM PST by STARWISE (They (LIBS-STILL) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war- Richard Miniter)
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To: STARWISE

Excellent article. Be sure to read the comments at the end of it!


19 posted on 02/08/2010 12:45:02 PM PST by Magnolia
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To: STARWISE

Maybe come election time we’ll be done with the Kennedy’s once and for all.


20 posted on 02/08/2010 12:48:14 PM PST by coconut47
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