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Taking Heat for Townsend's Loss (Rats Eating Their Own After Kennedy Loss)
The Washington Post ^
| Sunday, December 1, 2002
| Lori Montgomery
Posted on 11/30/2002 8:49:15 PM PST by kristinn
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To: kristinn
relish your schadenfreude.
No Republican had won the governorship in Maryland since Spiro Agnew -- and he beats a Kennedy.
Life is good.
To: kristinn
For Jim Farmer, the biggest and most blustery ambulance chaser in Southern Maryland, to call
anyone arrogant and incompetent, takes the cake for me.
Kennedy lost because Maryland has been trending Republican in recent years. The Democratic machine in Baltimore City stole the 1994 election from Ellen Sauerbrey, and it finally caught up with them.
When you need 18 dead people to vote for your candidate, you need some live help.
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To: Mike Fieschko
Sounds like Ehrlich went in for the "football" on November 6---oops, I meant, "touchdown".
To: kristinn
The group's president finally called Townsend's headquarters, but still couldn't get a straight answer on tort reform, their top priority. Of course they can't get a straight answer. The Rats are a party of competing interests and when that is the case, only one side can have it their way. In this case, the lawyers provide much more money than do doctors, so it's the lawyers who will ultimately prevail and prevent the passage of tort reform. Kind of like blacks and NEA and school vouchers. Guess who gives more money. Guess who prevails. But unlike the doctors, who shifted their support, Rats can shaft the black community and still get 90 percent of their votes.
To: kristinn
"...losing control of state government and costing hundreds of Democratic state workers their jobs."Out! Out!
Out with the vermin out mow! Get honest jobs! Get away from your corrupt use of Maryland government as a tool of your evil political party! Go Away!
Call Orkin to fumigate! Call Roto-Rooter to clean up the sewage!
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posted on
11/30/2002 10:06:50 PM PST
by
friendly
To: kristinn; wattsup
Surely several of the electorate must have noticed that this particular Kennedy was an idiot who has trouble with complete sentences?
To: kristinn
She lost because she never got enough votes.
On the other hand. You could say that Erlich won because he got more votes.
My advice to the RATS is to 'Keep it simple stupid'.
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posted on
12/01/2002 2:18:44 AM PST
by
jerod
To: kristinn
And the man they most often blame for the humiliating loss to Republican Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., for losing control of state government and costing hundreds of Democratic state workers their jobs...Not to worry. Their job skills are a great fit at Burger King and Pizza Hut.
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posted on
12/01/2002 2:22:50 AM PST
by
dennisw
To: kristinn
Oh, thanks for posting this! I just can't get enough of these stories. I know it is a character flaw that I must work on, but I just LOVE stories of Rat misery and back-biting.
To: kristinn
Fleischmann sent an e-mail to his campaign staff. "I know a lot of you are probably feeling a bit uneasy about your future right now. But I want you to know that I will be here to help each one of you in the days and weeks ahead," he wrote. Then Fleischmann hopped on a plane, flew to Florida and went to the beach.
Brutal - sounds as if Fleischman comes from the Clinton School of Political Loyalty.
But I must say that I was surprised by the somewhat amateurish quality of the writing in this piece. Is this typical of the Washington Post nowadays? Is anyone familiar with Lori Montgomery, the article's author?
The quotation above (the last lines in the article), certainly has impact. But it reads much more like an opinion column than straight reporting.
A good reporter would have given Fleischman's side of the situation. Was he in frequent phone contact while away? How long did he remain in Florida, etc?
To: kristinn
I know a lot of people bash Ayn Rand, but she knew these socialists inside and out. For the past month, all the name calling and finger pointing reminds me of a few characters from Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. Then there was that so call funeral....
To: kristinn
ALAN H. FLEISCHMANN
It's a good thing that the Rats had a confused campaign staff. One less Kennedy in the political arena. Thank you, Alan Fleischmann, for a job well done.
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posted on
12/01/2002 4:00:37 AM PST
by
csvset
To: kristinn
Could Alan Fleischman organize a one car funeral with a police escort?
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posted on
12/01/2002 4:25:49 AM PST
by
doosee
To: kristinn
She was unable to squeeze it [appearance before a minority group] into her schedule"...didn't want [afraid] to go and meet her base [and alienate more voters]?
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posted on
12/01/2002 5:35:09 AM PST
by
RWG
To: governsleastgovernsbest
Is anyone familiar with Lori Montgomery, the article's author?Lori had her nose up KKT's perverbial you know what for the entire campaign. Blair Lee IV, of the Lee family and long time Democrat would always have unkind things to say about Ms. Montgomery in his weekly column published by The Montgomery County Journal a local rag. It is not surprising that Ms. Montgomery would would find a local Muldoon to blame for the loss. She conveniently ignores that fact that the "National Experts" brought in a hatchet who's name escapes me, to play the race card. It ended up blowing crap all over KKT and all over KKT's campaign. Followed by weeks of discussion as to whether the campaign had or had not fired the hatchet man.
And yes, she is a terible writer but typical of the the Washington Bleep.
To: goldstategop
Sorry (sheepish grin), I forgot the name of the song you referenced.
To: Jimmy Valentine's brother
Thanks for the interesting info on Montgomery. I was truly shocked by the poor quality of her writing appearing in what, liberal bias aside, purports to be a first-rate paper.
To: Senator Goldwater; Donald Stone; Joe Montana
RATs were able to steal the '94 election because Clinton was in the White House, Reno was AG, and Battaglia was U.S. Attorney. This time their counterparts were Bush, Ashcroft, and DiBiagio. RATs couldn't get away with the same stuff.
To: jerod
Oh thank God someone else is saying what I am thinking. She lost because not enough people voted for her....a different campaign manager can't make her likeable.
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posted on
12/01/2002 4:34:08 PM PST
by
Mfkmmof4
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