Massachusetts: Never Ending Gifts To The GOP
Here’s another great column from Jules Crittenden at the Boston Herald!
Every two years, bluest blue Massachusetts sends in the clowns. We show America what could be and America generally sees it and acts accordingly: runs in the other direction.
From Kerry’s insulting jibes at our troops, to the efforts by Kennedy and others in our delegation to undermine a wartime presidency and give Euro-style socialism a foot-hold in the New World, Massachusetts gives America its bogeymen.
With the likely election of Deval Patrick as governor, we’ll give America a brave new Dukakis, not to mention an advance glance at an Obama administration. Watch and learn. It is perhaps the best 2008 gift we, Massachusetts, could give the GOP.
More Kennedy. More Kerry – no way he’s going quietly; his Web site now sports a Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial saying his dumb troops-dumb Bush joke was “right either way.” A rasher of Patrick. Frank in the Democratic House leadership. What more could a Republican candidate in 2008 ask for?
Speaker-hopeful Nancy Pelosi, suddenly faced with the prospect of actual responsibility, is begging her minions to keep a lid on it. You know they won’t be able to. As they engage in the destructive practice of investigating every spurious claim of rights-trampling that already has been hashed over repeatedly, we will get a sneak peak at the Democratic vision for America.
An America eager to ingratiate itself with the world and embrace any bizarre fringe cause that emerges. This is what we live with in Massachusetts.
Oh yeah, and gay Republicans were lucky enough to have been given the gift of Patrick Guerriero from Massachusetts.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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Ted Kennedy: Son of a rum-running, womanizing anti-semite. Responsible for a woman’s death in a motor accident. Living off the legacy of his dead brothers.
John Kerry: Served in Vietnam only to denigrate his fellow troops in Congress. Attitude towards men and women in uniform unchanged in 35 years, yet has the nerve to run on his war record.
Barney Frank: Dolly Parton should star in the movie musical version of his life story and call it “The Best Little Whorehouse in Massachusetts”.
raj: Enough said.
Comment by Attmay — November 5, 2006 @ 3:04 pm - November 5, 2006
Before you get the wrong idea, I have no intention of claiming everyone from Massachusetts is like them. I have relatives who live in Framingham. But how can they continually choose those three to represent them in the United States Congress?
Comment by Attmay — November 5, 2006 @ 3:06 pm - November 5, 2006
2: and George Bush has had drunk driving wiped/sealed from his records in both Texas and Maine and wasn’t Laura Bush involved in an automobile death? George served questionable duty in the National Guard to get out of going to Vietnam altogether.
Do you want to go through a whole littany of what our elected officials (both democrat and republican) have done illegally? Don’t forget the Bush cabinet and staff contained more convicted felons than any other in history *combined*. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. By the way, what’s the tally of Republicans vs. Democrats who’ve resigned their job because of scandal in the last month. anyone, anyone?
2: It’s simple: Because the people want those representative and the majority voted them into their jobs. Personal lives aside, they’re doing the job in congress they’re supposed to be doing.
Comment by Kevin — November 5, 2006 @ 5:58 pm - November 5, 2006
So it doesn’t matter what Democrats do in their private lives, but it does matter what Republicans do?
Comment by Attmay — November 5, 2006 @ 7:03 pm - November 5, 2006
OT: This just in. Caught on film: George Allen’s bodyguards subdue another obnoxious Kostard
Comment by V the K — November 5, 2006 @ 7:18 pm - November 5, 2006
I get it. When the extreme right loses (they are very noted for their thin skin) then the little girl whinning begins.
Whine on bullys
Larry
Comment by larry — November 5, 2006 @ 8:44 pm - November 5, 2006
What’s a Patrick Guerriero?
Comment by the friendly grizzly — November 5, 2006 @ 8:51 pm - November 5, 2006
What pray tell Patrick and Obama have in common except the color of their skin? I realize that racist crap is what the GOP relies on in places like Tennessee but I’d like to think that’s not the case elsewhere in the country.
Comment by Ian — November 5, 2006 @ 8:57 pm - November 5, 2006
When the extreme right loses (they are very noted for their thin skin) then the little girl whinning begins.
Whining? As in, “Waaaaah!! John Kerry would have won but Diebold fixed the voting machines in Ohio” or as in, “Waaaah!! AlGore would have won but the Supreme Court selected not elected Bush.”
Comment by V the K — November 5, 2006 @ 9:23 pm - November 5, 2006
V: you’ll remember that the established Democrats (the politicians, many of the liberal publications like Salon) came to the conclusion that there was no election theft. They took heat from the base, but they agreed with the right that there was no theft. So the complaints came from the fringe.
Were there and are there fringes of the base that still believe it happened? Of course: just like there are fringe members of the Republican party that still believe gay marriage will destroy America. Fringe members always exist, in any party, and can’t be presumed to speak for the majority.
Comment by torrentprime — November 5, 2006 @ 9:34 pm - November 5, 2006
V the K how bout this one…..”umm umm you know that election college thing really isn’t fair, who invented that, um um it should be who gets the most votes, not like those racist old men wrote down way back in the 1800’s.” or how bout, “um why did that guy Rick defazio walk towards Hillary like that. She’s a girl and he made her really scared when he did that.” All liberals do is whine.
Comment by Gene in Pennsylvania — November 5, 2006 @ 9:35 pm - November 5, 2006
Were there and are there fringes of the base that still believe it happened?
Robert F. Kennedy and Howard Dean are “fringe figures” on the Democrat party?
Comment by V the K — November 5, 2006 @ 10:01 pm - November 5, 2006
#3
Surely you can do better than kook conspiracy theories.
Pathetic.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — November 6, 2006 @ 12:14 am - November 6, 2006
13: Bull. Like a good current conservative, every time something is questioned by the people, you label it a conspiracy theory.
Try actually watching “hacking democracy” These folks investigated and tested their claims of voter fraud by the diebold machines and they show some pretty compelling evidence to warrant a strong look at how these systems work. Why do you think the number of abentee balloting is rising at such a fast rate? People who actually want their vote to count aren’t trusting the computers. Frankly, I think where Kerry really did fail was not pursuing the voter fraud issue in Ohio in 04
Comment by Kevin — November 6, 2006 @ 7:26 am - November 6, 2006
Kevin writes: “Frankly, I think where Kerry really did fail was not pursuing the voter fraud issue in Ohio in 04.”
Or the GOP investigating voter fraud by Democrats in Missouri, Wisconsin, Washington, Massachusetts, Arkansas, Philadelphia, Detroit, Pittsburg, DC, Hawaii, Chicago, Atlanta, LA, Seattle, Boston, New Jersey, Hartford, Miami and all of Dade County, et cetera.
Right, for years the Democrats (Big Labor) and urban areas have been identified by any reasonable group as the centers of widespread structured vote fraud… for Democrats to begin crying foul in 2000 or 2004 with the mantra of “vote fraud stole the election” underscores that point: teh Demos just didn’t do enough vote fraud in those elections in order to win… or is it “not lose”.
Kevin, people in my community do trust voting machines… we just don’t trust other communities run by Democrats to share our value in protecting the integrity of the vote. That’s the problem… not the technology.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — November 6, 2006 @ 8:42 am - November 6, 2006
I see the “whining” on election fraud comes from both the left and right. Can we agree that all election fraud sucks?
Comment by Pat — November 6, 2006 @ 9:56 am - November 6, 2006
Kennedy. Giancana. 1960.
Comment by Attmay — November 6, 2006 @ 9:58 am - November 6, 2006
Surely you can do better than kook conspiracy theories.
You forget you are dealing with someone who thinks Republicans are out to exterminate him.
It’s kind of funny that lefties whine about Diebold all the time, but also strongly oppose commonsense efforts to prevent voter fraud through photo ID requirements. And it’s still a hell of a lot easier to commit frauds with paper ballots than it is with electronic voting machines. Which is probably why the Democrats hate them so much.
Comment by V the K — November 6, 2006 @ 10:08 am - November 6, 2006
I actually agree that there should be photo ID requirements. It is common sense. But it’s also political. I am convinced that if such a requirement would increase the likelihood of Democrats winning, then Democrats would then be for it, while Republicans would be against it.
Comment by Pat — November 6, 2006 @ 10:27 am - November 6, 2006
VdaK, photo IDs and a receipt to the voter for his/her ballot cast are needed for true election reform.
Unlike conventional Democrat-proposed election reforms like:
1) absentee ballots for any reason;
internet voting.
2) instant poll-site registration without accompanying proof of residency;
3) cross-over voting in political party primaries;
4) payment or food awards for votes cast;
5) lower standards to get any initiative on the ballot;
6) exemption of campaign calls from Do Not Call natl registries;
7) unfettered 527s;
and the “Mother of All Democrat Election Reforms”…
The simplest change with the greatest benefit in all of conventional reforms would be to require voters to show photo ID on election day… and the Democrats in Michigan or at DeanWorldHdQtrs are 100% opposed to the simplest of reforms.
I’ve long since abandoned the notion that we could get local Democrat clerks to clean-up voter lists under their jurisdiction and just eliminate the known dead people or those who haven’t voted in 15 years. Just that minimum of reform is opposed here in Detroit, Saginaw, Flint, Pontiac, Muskegon, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Benton Harbor, and dozens of Detroit-metro communities.
Pat, Democrats have long snubbed the idea of meaningful election reform… but they want the franchise to extend to felons in prison, illegal immigrants and unregistered voters. So it sure as heck is NOT “equal” whining from the Right and Left… and it isn’t on that axis of the political spectrum anyway… it’s GOP and Democrats.
When Democrats actually start to respect integrity of the voting system and clean-up those systems under their control, you can argue that vote fraud is bad on either side of the aisle. I’ve watched lots of polling places as a part of citizen-based voter security programs and I have yet to see the fraud occur in GOP or rural areas… it’s always been in the inner city where corruption is the standard operating procedure… in permits, in contracts, in vote counts.
Democrats can scream about electronic machines… conspiracy theories… and corporate manipulation of the electoral system but the truth is that Democrats have a long history of vote fraud that dates back to their founder Thom Jefferson.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — November 6, 2006 @ 11:23 am - November 6, 2006
Michigan-Matt, I am not claiming that one party is more guilty of voter fraud than the other. And I personally don’t have proof. I do suspect that it is about equal. You seem to have knowledge that Democrats are more guilty of fraud than Republicans. And I’m sure you could even provide links and other proof that that is the case. But I’ve seen Democrats being able to claim the same thing regarding Republican fraud. And then have the game of “I’m right, and you’re a liar” from both sides.
As for other forms of corruption, in my county in NJ, it is the Republicans that have the heavy duty corruption going. Yeah, the Democrats are corrupt here as well. But in terms of getting jobs, contracts, etc., it’s the Republicans. Now that the Dems are in power here, I suspect they will catch up and overtake the Republicans in corruption.
Comment by Pat — November 6, 2006 @ 11:58 am - November 6, 2006
Pat, the operative words in your comment are “…in my county in New Jersey….” New Jersey is the Middle Eastern bazaar of corruption in politics and governance… a state the makes Cook County look clean by comparison.
I think there is a fundamental difference between the parties. The GOP isn’t pure as snow, but it’s better than the mud bath of voter fraud as an election strategy in Democrat-controlled big cities across the US.
There is a huge difference.
And I commend your endorsement of requiring photo ID for voting. It’s a small, tiny first step that might end the dead people voting for the Democrat nominee twice in an election. “Might”.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — November 6, 2006 @ 1:50 pm - November 6, 2006
in post #3 Kevin tries to equate President Bushes’ DWI to Teddys’ manslaughter.Not only did the senior Senator from Massachusets drive his date into a lake,he also left her to drown while he scurried back to his hotel to sleep it off.He also claims that the Presidents National Gaurd service is questionable.All I can say to that,is that Soldiers voted for Bush by a large margin in the last two Presidential elections.Having been a soldier,I can tell you that our Troopers favor Republicans heavily.Republicans buck up for the military.Democrats talk the talk and once they get elected they begin dismantling the armed forces.The democrats know that they’re not popular with the troops…thats probably why they tried to throw out military absentee ballots in florida back in 2000.
Another thing Kevin…You can “Tally” up every republican scandel dating back to the Grant administration and it wouldn’t come close to the democrats foul and treasonous rebellion back in 1861.We would all do well to remember that the democrats tried to destroy our Union.They have a long history of putting their own power above the survival of the Republic.I have no doubt that most democrats would LOVE to see us humiliated in Iraq.Their hatred of The President is so great that they would gladly see our troops defeated in order to take him down.I see the socialist…I mean democratic party as a far greater threat than the terrorists.
Comment by Bobby Alpy — November 7, 2006 @ 12:04 am - November 7, 2006