Posted on 09/08/2002 1:01:54 AM PDT by MadIvan
Apparently he is doing an incredible shrinking man act.
Mind, he had a better starting position for that than his opponents. . .
When she was introducing him she called him "Charles Lawson". His name is Larson. She also, at one point, called him the "most highly decorated admiral in Navy history". He ain't.
As Lt. Gov., she had one primary respondibility - crime. As of right now, there are two federal investigations into two separate aspects of the organizations for which she was/is responsible.
Charisma, charm, good-looks, JFK's name....if he ran for President, have would have won. JFK Jr. was sharper than Gore and was not nearly as far of a left-wingnut as Gore, and Gore came with 537 votes of winning.
Boy, isn't that the truth. I remember reading a book about the administration and the assassination. It turns out that some former aide of JFK who was with the family after the shooting admits now that the famous "JFK Jr salute" to his dad's coffin was totally staged. The aid said that they had to work with John Jr. for hours to get him to salute at the right signal and with the correct hand. They then tipped off the willing media hacks to have the camera ready to roll and focused on John Jr at the right moment.
It was an Orwellian fraud.
In hindsight, I think that a good portion of the "left drift" that occured in the 60's and 70s was the result of the fact that the lefties had total control of TV and it took the conservatives a few decades to actually figure this out and learn to counter it.
Absolutely...if JFK Jr had ever run for president, he'd have won hands-down. The media would have had multiple orgasms over him, and all of the female voters in the country (excepting for a small percentage of devoted conservatives) would have voted for him too.....it would have been a landslide.
That having been said, one of my first thoughts upon hearing of the crash was, "that is the end of the Kennedy dynsasty". The myth was always based on the idea that JFK's brother (RFK or Teddy) or his son would someday rise up and take the office that was vacated by the fallen King Arthur/JFK. RFK's death, Teddy's obvious shortcomings, and then JFK Jr's death slammed the lid on the myth.
Without a younger man to pull the sword from the stone, its over.
That was Joseph Jr. He also suffered from the Kennedy hubris about anything with a motor on it. His aircraft, a B-24 bomber, was an experimental quasi-TV bomb. The aircraft had a primitive TV system, and equally primitive radio control. The idea was that the crew would get the thing off the ground, fly it to near it's target, bail out, and a following aircraft with a receiver and specially trained crew would fly the explosive loaded aircraft into high value targets.
Naturally with the TV camera, the TV transmitter, radio control transmitter and receiver, and radio control of the flight controls....there was a lot, for it's day, of wiring, batteries, motors, ect.
Hence the need for an on-board electronics officer, who would also bail out.
Well on that fateful day, the officer refused to board the aircraft. Let me say this again. During wartime, a United States Officer, a captain no less, refused to board the aircraft. He said that there were particular problems with the systems, and that the aircraft was unsafe and told Captain Kennedy not to fly.
Kennedy flew, and he and the rest of the crew were killed instantly in a mid air explosion, way before they began their approach to the target. As predicted and feared by the electronics officer.
So, weather it is drunk driving, skiing downhill backwards, flying in conditions you aren't skilled nor qualified to fly in, or just believing you know more than a fellow officer with technical training, the Kennedys leave death and destruction in their wake.
Have you ever noticed how illicitly-gained fortunes become legitimate once they are passed to the next generation?
She's gonna win. Make no mistake about it. The media,the SOW gang,the blacks,the Jews,and the white collar feral gooberment workers will see to this. They will all vote for her,the living and the dead. We will then be subjected to years of speculation about how brilliant she is,and how she would make a excellent president.
Bubba-1 doesn't dislike Mini-Mario. He was a Bubba-1 political appointee with a high position. What happened is that Mini-Mario decided to run for governor of NY,and Bubba-1 and Bubbette! will NOT allow anyone to be a danger to their power. With his Cuomo and Kennedy connections,he could have easily outshone Bubbette! as THE most powerful political figure in NY,and they couldn't have this.
BTW,this MIGHT also mean that Bubba-1 plans on running for Governor of NY himself during the next cycle. He couldn't take a chance on somebody like Mini-Mario already being there to run against him.
So what? How did this hurt Patches Kennedy? He was voted the "most stupid congressmemer" by his peers,and this was against people like Major Owens,Sheila Jackson-Lee,etc,etc,etc. That's really saying something.
John-John was handsome,charming,and well-liked by the idiots who manage the media. Like all the other Kennedy's,his money bought him all the brains he needed to tell him what to think. The fact that he had the IQ of a turnip wouldn't have hurt him at all.
Praising with "faint damns"? There are hard lumps in my cats litter box that are smarter than Goober. None the less,you are right. If JFK Jr has run for president,he WOULD have been elected. Most likely in a landslide.
Never mind that.... Isn't Little Cuomo the guy who oversaw millions in missing HUD money? Was that ever thrown in his face by his opponent?
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