Sunday Herald column ping
Zero-percenter grabs 96%
By Howie Carr | Sunday, June 3, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
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The fix was in.
I told you that Thursday. Deval wouldn’t have been so arrogant as to “speak for the people of the commonwealth” if he wasn’t pulling out all the stops. He hadn’t worked this hard since he was stonewalling the press when they were trying to get the cellphone records of his pajama-clad, 108-mph-driving lieutenant governor.
Granny gets 95.7 percent of the vote — more than anyone else since the convention was brought back in 1982. The bosses called the shots. They twisted arms and knuckled hacks in a smoke-filled room where no smoking was allowed.
It didn’t use to be this way. Say what you will about the comrades who attend these politburos, they’ll generally give any even semi-legitimate candidate a spot on the primary ballot.
Look at John Kerry in 2008. In his own mind anyway, he was the real president who’d had the election stolen from him in 2004. But the moonbats still put a guy named O’Reilly on the ballot against him. He ruined Liveshot’s summer chasing him around the state. It was the revenge of Hillary’s hens for his endorsement of Barack Obama.
Two years earlier, a Green named John Bonifaz wanted to run against Secretary of State Bill Galvin. He was a pal of Nader’s, the guy who cost the Democrats the 2000 election. But Galvin doesn’t fit with the moonbats. He’s a Boston Irish-Catholic — in other words, an American — so Bonifaz was waved through.
But what the hell did Marisa DeFranco do wrong? She’s a woman, a lawyer who represents illegal aliens. Her bona fides were in order ... at least until Deval started ladling out the Kool-Aid.
The rationale, I guess, is that Kerry and Galvin didn’t have serious Republican opposition, and that this year the moonbats needed to clear the decks for the struggle against Scott Brown. He’s pretty evil, you know. He was born in Massachusetts, one strike against him, and he’s been in the military, strike two. He’s married — to a woman. Not a carpetbagger and not an Ivy Leaguer — how dare such an ... American even attempt to run for office in Massachusetts?
But wouldn’t a few more debates have helped Lieawatha? Consider just the past 48 hours. She claimed her parents had to “elope,” because of the anti-Indian prejudice against her mother. Then it turned out, on a Cherokee website, that her parents had been married just 14 miles from home, in their county seat, by the local Methodist Episcopal preacher, apparently at his church.
Hardly what most people would consider an “elopement.”
Then it turned out she was for flipping real estate and grabbing bottom-dollar foreclosed property before she was against it. On one flip in 1993, she turned a 383 percent profit in five months.
Then there’s her telling a UMass group that her maternal grandmother had taken part in the Sooner land rush of 1889 and lived “to see her youngest grandchild — that’s me — graduate from college.” Interesting, because the grandma died in 1969, according to a death notice in The Oklahoman newspaper, and Warren didn’t graduate until 1970. Now she’s backpedaling, telling the Herald’s Hillary Chabot on Friday her grandma “lived to know I would graduate from college.” Minor stuff, perhaps, except in the context of the cascade of whoppers that have preceded it.
Better luck next time Marisa. If only you hadn’t been from Massachusetts ...
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Hubby and I thought about driving up to Springfield (about 30-40 minutes from here) to heckle the Massachusetts 'RATs outside their convention this past weekend. By the time I learned about where and when the convention was late last Friday, it was mostly over - and we had plans on Saturday.
I guess only about three Cherokees showed up to heckle "Lieawatha Liz"? Too bad... I was hoping the pro-Romney crowd that heckled Axelrod would have made an appearance in Springfield outside the convention.