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  3. As dysfunctional (and corrupt) as Massachusetts is, occasionally they do feel the need to reign in the ruling party. Typically this is a Republican Governor like Romney or Weld. This year it may be a break with the Kennedy’s. There are a lot of people in Mass that really don’t like the Kennedy’s. Never enough to block Teddy but a lot.

    This year there may be a rebellion just to show their rulers the public is still alive. With all the JFK siblings gone, the remaining Kennedy’s are like sitcom spinoffs, pale imitations.

  4. Because Joe Kennedy is running, the issue of mistaken name recognition will pull votes towards the Libertarian candidate. Here is an example of what occurred in Texas.

    Texas has enjoyed a deserved pride in its judiciary, there have
    also been moments of embarrassment, one example being the Supreme
    Court election of 1976. Twenty-four years earlier, the governor’s race was
    between Alan Shivers and Ralph Yarborough. Shivers won but
    Yarborough was later to become a U.S. Senator [1957-1971] and then in 1964 a Houston
    lawyer, Don Yarborough, not related to the Senator, challenged John
    Connally for the governorship. Defeated by Connally, Yarborough ran
    unsuccessfully for governor again in 1966 against Preston Smith. Senator
    Ralph Yarborough remained in the U.S. Senate until 1971, so by the time
    the election of 1976 arrived, Texans statewide were quite familiar with the
    Yarborough name.
    As it turns out, however, Texans may not have been as well-
    acquainted with the name as they thought because another Houston
    lawyer, Don Yarbrough, ran for the Supreme Court against Charles W.
    Barrow, a well-respected jurist from San Antonio, formerly a District Judge
    and later a Justice on the San Antonio Court of Appeals. The statewide bar
    poll favored Barrow by 10,186 to 1741 but, by what most political analysts
    feel was mistaken name recognition, Yarbrough defeated Barrow and was
    sworn in as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on January 2,1977.
    Six months later in June, 1977, Justice Yarbrough appeared and testified
    before a Travis County Grand Jury regarding his participation in the
    forgery of an automobile registration. From that testimony, Yarbrough
    was subsequently indicted, tried and convicted of aggravated perjury and
    assessed a five year prison sentence.

    One factor that will assist the Democratic Party candidate is that the ill-informed, who would be more likely to mistakenly vote for Libertarian candidate Joe Kennedy, are also less likely to vote in mid-term elections. Let’s keep quiet about Joe, to lessen the likelihood that the Demos will institute a “Don’t vote for Joe” campaign.

    Count me in as someone who doesn’t like the Kennedys. Reason: a childhood friend worked for them at Hyannisport one summer. As my friend put it, while the Kennedys like to present themselves as rich people with a conscience, they are simply rich people.

  5. For those of us not living in MA a contribution to the Brown campaign (link in neo’s posting) is the best investment we can make in this new year.

  6. I have made a contribution to your campaign. I do not live in MA, but I have a vested interest as I do own a home at the Cape. I was pleased to see many SCOTT BROWN yard signs this past weekend. You have a good following and many more are getting excited and on board. Keep up the hard work and God Bless.

  7. Sisu may have predicted the headline of the year! “Ted Kennedy posthumously votes for Coakley to replace him”

  8. This gives me hope that there might be conservative candidate that will be willing to step forward and run against our Tennis Shoe Patty Murray, here in Washington. Oh, would that be a big change!

    In the meantime, go, Scott!

  9. a Republican Senator from Massachusetts (isn’t that a sort of oxymoron?)

    Not really. We haven’t had one in 31 years, true, but there were quite a few Republicans before then. (Heck, we didn’t have any Democrats in the Senate before 1919.)

  10. With what is at stake, why isn’t this getting more press? Now with two more Dems not running in the fall, this is huge.

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  12. Whew, with those two around, he’s got more to worry about then the election, ahem, but seriously folks…It’s been awhile since I’ve kept tabs on what was happening politically back home. I take it he’s not from an old decrepit mill town like many of us, but then again neither was Dead Head Willie Weld, (from New Yawk in fact) but here’s to it Scott, shake ’em up!

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