Posted on 08/16/2002 5:00:10 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
KATHLEEN K. Townsend is a Kennedy and there's nothing she can do about that. But she could have skipped that $2,000-a-head Hyannis Port party last month - the $4,000-a-plate one two summers ago, with chocolate mousse boats and white-chocolate sails bearing KKT's initials, was bad enough - and maybe she could chill on the out-of-state fund raising and the cocktail parties at Uncle Teddy's house. If I were advising this woman - and who isn't these days? - I'd tell her to lay off the lobster-and-Chablis fetes because those events come with a pretty high gag factor among the Great Unwashed. Among the things that can make a Maryland Democrat cranky is this idea that, despite KKT's protests to the contrary, she's on some kind of six-year plan to gain national office. Her campaign for governor is in danger of looking like a campaign for the White House. The candidate might be served by the $1,000 donation she received from a Hollywood producer named Loreen Arbus - who, I suspect, has never been to Arbutus - but Townsend is not served by Arbus' published statement that she "flew [to a Washington campaign event] to be able to say, 'From early on, I have supported the person who will become the first woman president of the United States.'"
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UNBELIEVABLE!!! Here we have a total airhead, stage managed by ever-present handlers, with a faltering campaign for governor and just because she has "Kennedy" in her name, she is being touted as a Presidential prospect. Is this a Republic or a Monarchy?
Freaky. I thought that was reserved for Hitlery.
Is this a Republic or a Monarchy?
Neither. It's a kakistocracy.
Neither.
It's a former republic in advanced pre-empire stages.
All that's missing is the emperor, or empress. Not clear that the job will be hereditary, but the Xlintons and Kennedys are already jousting on a number of fronts.
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...so does Hillary
Comes over as having about as much personality as a damp dishcloth....and UGLY...and OH my goodness that bright red dress ..
Remember that rats tearing into Harris of Florida ...well here is our new target
It's similar in that way to the first three centuries of the Roman Empire. Oh, the ruler had the title "imperator" (from which our word "emperor" comes) all right, but that title, in the Latin of the time, referred to the ruler's position as supreme general of the army. The ruler was in theory merely the first citizen -- "princeps," with that meaning, was another one of his titles. For the first centuries of the empire, the ruler studiously avoided the title "rex," "king," which was regarded as un-Roman (when the Roman Republic was founded, the king was chased out; when Julius Caesar toyed with the idea of having himself declared king, he was assassinated.)
Actually, our presidents have powers very much like those of the Roman emperors in the first centuries of the Empire.
That may explain why the Washington Post and Baltimore Sun have been running such unsympathetic articles on KKT the past week. The NY Times, which ran a puff piece on her the other day, seems not to have gotten the message.
b) Its a Bizarro World
What's the difference???
One is fiction, the other was reality?
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