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 ...
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Patches is likely going down in November. 56% disapproval in RI.
Stay off the roads.
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.
Laughlin announces bid for another “People’s Seat”
http://www.projo.com/news/content/loughlin_announces_02-05-10_IRHBJ5S_v23.3cf48fd.html
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.
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.
More carbon dioxide filled hot air from a family that just recently crawled out of the low end of the gene pool.
Anybody see the irony in a Republican being in the tank for . . . Republicans?
As opposed to being in the tank for . . . what?
For him, perfectly consistent.
Patches stumbled out of rehab to make a statement. Beating him and winning Murtha’s seat should be TOP priority.
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.
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.
Someone should photoshop a message on his hand.
In the tank????
Was Patches referring to the all too familiar drunk tank?
Yes .. woo hoo! Taking our country back,
one seat at a time.
Excellent article. Be sure to read the comments at the end of it!
Maybe come election time we’ll be done with the Kennedy’s once and for all.
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