Kennedy Woman Favored in MD Race

The Weekly Standard | 07-27-02 | Labash, Matt

[Theodore R.]

People in MD would rather starve to death than defeat a daughter of the "sainted" RFK. I cannot imagine any circumstances by which Mrs. Townsend could lose the race in this heavily Democrat state. Many counties are 10-1 or 12-1 Democrat in orientation. The liberal mayor of Baltimore got 90 percent in the last election.

[Bahbah]

Bump for an excellent article. I loved the bit about the "spririted game of bingo".

[COBOL2Java]

Wait a minute. I thought her lead has shrunk considerably over the last few months, and now the Republican Erlich is breathing down her neck!

Also, wasn't there a news article yesterday that said the MD Troopers Association, who have never before endorsed a Republican, have endorsed Erlich?

[Freee-dame]

I cannot imagine any circumstances by which Mrs. Townsend could lose the race in this heavily Democrat state. I>

Many Marylanders have been in the Democratic Party for generations, but have begun to realize that "It's not your father's democratic party." The 2-1 statewide advantage for the Dems is not actually how people vote. Bob Ehrlich really does have a chance, just not with the dependency or government worker groups, of which Maryland has a great number. He will win overwhelmingly with those contributing to the economy.

[J. L. Chamberlain]

No, you have to understand that the Democratic party in Maryland is an old fashioned political machine. Bribery and corruption run rampant. Everyone knows about it and it's so common that's it's viewed as "everyday business".

I grew up there and, in fact, lived a little more than a mile from Marvin Mandel's office. We used to see him from time to time when we went to the pharmacy in the same building. As my father put it: "He's a nice man...a crook but a nice man!".

Here, I'll hand you off to Don. He's got boat loads of stuff on the "Maryland Machine"!

J

[poet]

Please God, not another slime from the kennedy brood with political power.

[hgro]

Old Joe Kennedy and his wife popped out kids like rabbits. All the while, Joe was rum running and bedding Hollywood tramps. Now tell me, does the acorn fall far from the tree. Ethel Kennedy, the mother of this woman is not a really reputable character herself. I would hope the kid manages to overcome all of these disadvantages but she is carrying a heavy load.

[aristeides]

If RFK can be shown to be responsible for the Boston FBI scandal (as the chronology suggests,) I wonder if that might have any effect on this race.

[ken5050]

Sounds like KKT and Dan Quayle would be the perfect ticket..course, they'd have to fight to see who would win the #2 spot...

[rabidralph]

Right on both counts. Townsend's lead has shrunk to 3 percentage points--47-44--off of a 21 point lead from the spring. Ehrlich has been endorsed by a police organization and Townsend has been endorsed by an interfaith organization. The race is very close. Townsend is starting to lose some support among blacks, too.

[Mfkmmof4]

Yes and she is ahead by only 3 points. And refuses to debate until after the primary.

[TroutStalker]

bump for a later read

[ReaganIsRight]

Most of MD is Republican, but Baltimore City, Prince Georges and Montgomery county (outside Wash) are Democrat. Mostly black and government workers.

Combined with the missing and dead vote they stole the election the first time Glendenning (current gov) ran by giving the Republican on the election board (1R, 2D's) a government job after certifying the fraud they commmitted.

People know KKT as the empty "head" she is, and there is a lot of dislike among those who mindlessly pull the D lever like I have never seen in this state before.

[maica]

Who is Matt Labash - a McCainiac?

Deservedly or not, Townsend seems to be on everybody's short list for stardom.

Who is this *everybody*?

Surely not the voters of Maryland who phone talk shows!

[Theodore R.]

Most of MD is Republican, but

It's the word "but" that changes everything. I think the same is geographically true of OR -- the majority of the counties are heavily Republicans, but it's the populous corridor of I-5 that keeps the Democrats entrenched there too. There's probably even a Republican zone in HA, but I don't know where it might be. Even VT might still have one or two Republican areas left.

[Nonstatist]

There's not one honest Democrat that would tell you that she's got any gray matter upstairs in terms of leadership. It's a joke. Everybody knows it's a joke. But what they say is, 'She's got money. She's a Kennedy. And she can win.'

I defy anyone to show me a stupider politician on his/her feet. She makes Quayle look like Mencken. The best way for her not to win is if she debates. Which she won't, IMO.

[Freee-dame]

She makes Quayle look like Mencken.

Please refresh my memory. After the first couple of weeks of the campaign, what did Quayle do that was dim-witted besides not challenge the incorrect spelling on the card handed him by the teachers in a school photo op? He may even have known how to spell potato, but was too polite to challenge the "authorities" in front of their students.

Do you think that the teacher who prepared the spelling cards was that ignorant or was Quayle set up?

[jackbill]

Please refresh my memory. After the first couple of weeks of the campaign, what did Quayle do that was dim-witted besides not challenge the incorrect spelling on the card handed him by the teachers in a school photo op? He may even have known how to spell potato, but was too polite to challenge the "authorities" in front of their students.

He was a Republican. That's all that it takes with Big Media.

Read Scandal, by Ann Coulter and you will not have to ask the question ever again.

[ladylib]

My brother lives in Maryland. He says she's dumber than a sack of hammers -- he also said something about the juvenile bootcamps that she instituted -- kids going to these camps and getting abused and killed for just running away from home -- she's a real oppportunistic whore politician IMHO -- straight from the Kennedy mold -- noblesse oblige crapola -- "We must give back to society," even if society says "Please, just go away!". As a lieutenant governor, she also mandated 75 hours of community service for the poor kids who had to attend government schools in order to get a state diploma. You know, give something back to your community even though your parents are paying through the nose for your crappy public school education. And people wonder why homeschooling is so popular in Maryland?

[StormEye]

"Even so, Republicans can make it interesting by picking off moderates, as in 1994, when they reduced the Glendening/Townsend ticket to squeaking by on a margin of 6,000 votes.

Glendening/Townsend didn't squeak by. They outright stole that election by keeping the polls open in Prince Georges County and Baltimore City past the mandated closing time of 8PM. Both of these regions are majority black, Democrat party areas where Democrats scream "racism" if Republican poll watchers should show up to see that the election is kept honest in these areas. Most are not even watched because Republican poll watchers fear for their own personal saftey should they set foot in these areas. The DemonRATS jack up the vote totals without any fear of being caught. Just watch this November; when Townsend is behind by five or six thousand votes, suddenly around 12 or 1 AM she will be ahead by that amount. DemonRATS will claim that the polls needed to be kept open because the "lines are too long" and everybody should get a chance to vote. That's how it's done in the People's Republic of Maryland. I live here and I've seen it happen.