Posted on 03/17/2002 5:45:39 AM PST by SamAdams76
This is coming from a born and bred Utahan who claims Idaho as his home State.
The Kennedy mystique is definitely eroding here in Massachusetts and the die-hard Kennedy voters who still have pictures of JFK in their living rooms are dying off. The younger crowd I run with hold the present Kennedy generation in contempt. That's why Joe Kennedy won't run for governor. Even he realizes the jig is up. Teddy is a laughingstock as much here as anybody else. He was very beatable in 2000 but the Republicans put nobody up against him. Kennedy basically ran uncontested, which was a disgrace. The Republican candidate was a nutcase nobody (Jack E. Robinson) and all you need to know about just how marginal a candidate he was was the fact that he tied for second place with a Libertarian (Carla Howell).
Like you said, the younger people around here just need a little push to the right - a reason to vote Republican. These folks generally vote Democrat because their parents voted Democrat and their parents voted Democrat and so on. The perception still lingers around here that the Democrats are "for the working class" which is a sad joke that can easily be dispelled, if only we had some real Republican candidates step up to the plate and offer some new ideas (instead of trying to pander to liberalism).
That Mitt Romney is seen as a savior around here tells you all you need to know about the sad shape of the GOP here in Massachusetts. In most other states, Romney would be middle-of-the-road RINO. Here, he is being hailed as the next Ronald Reagan, because quite frankly, he's all that is separating us from Governor Robert Reich.
There are a lot of conservatives and potential conservatives here in Massachusetts. We just need some people to vote for. But if the rest of the country keeps writing us off and the GOP doesn't make any effort to recruit, it will never happen.
This may sound bitter but it isn't, from what I have seen all we need is a spark, as Doc says the Revolution is at hand.
For the babes of the world, watch out for Ted Kennedy and Chris Dobbs -- they like to make waitress sandwiches. They think it's fun and funny. For the men of the world and pages of congress, you don't want to get caught between Barney (fag) Frank and Gerry (homo) Studds. In this Commonwealth, a congressman can get away with drunkeness, killing, pedophilia, looting... just about any crime you name. Its a one party state led by misfits.
"With that line of thinking, you might as well just surrender the country to socialism right now. The Republicans are dooming themselves if they decide to write off entire chunks of the country as you appear willing to do. The Democrats don't give up as easily. They go into Republican strongholds all the time and give it their best shot. Sometimes they even win which is why we now have Democrats elected in such conservative bastions as Oklahoma, Texas and Nevada. In fact, both North and South Dakota voted for Bush/Cheney in 2000 and generally vote Republican in all presidential elections, but ALL FOUR senators from those two states are Democrats. Why? Because the Democrats don't have the "give up and surrender" mentality that the Republicans have thanks to folks like you."
Yes, RATS have right tactics go after national offices, it has nothing in common with Romney trying to win govrneship here. I would applaud if he will make another shot at Kennedy or run for House seat, running for governor in Mass does not make any sense in my view.
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