It is, a level of tonal deafness, rarely witnessed.
Actually quite breathtaking in its stupefying, open-mouth evoking, political incompetency is it not?
And a perfect barometer of an agenda completely divorced from reality. Which is, to some degree, a mild form of insanity.
With identity politics you don’t have to campaign. The minorities vote the right way. The unions vote the right way. The single women vote the right way. The trial lawyers vote the right way. The educators vote the right way, and so on and so forth. And of course, your people count the votes. I’ll be stunned if Brown pulls it off.
Incompetent? Moi?
Once or twice a day I’ve asked myself just how stupid the Coakley campaign is. And at least once a day, they tell me!
Having said that: Geoffrey Britain is right, of course. A more concise illustration of the state of the Democratic Party could hardly be imagined. I just told Mr. Bother about it and he asked if it was certain it’s not a spoof.
There’s a rumor around that Coakley is a secret New York Yankees fan.
She’s got to get elected before she can destroy the system from within.
She means well. She just doesn’t get stuff done in the right order.
Martha Coakley and her campaign have reached the level of stupidity usually reserved for sea slugs and reality show contestants. Such monumental idiocy should be studied before it goes extinct, preferably through an airtight glass barrier until stupidity has been conclusively proven to be non-airborne. I am shocked that scientists have not leaped on this opportunity to conclusively prove the fact that humans are evolved from sea slime, and that some humans still bear the mental capacities of such semi-sentient invertebrates.
There. I’m all done with the “Martha Coakley = Stupid” thing. But seriously, folks. The hell. I’ve heard of neo-Nazis with more sensitive and effective campaigns.
– G
Neo, not evah ? Though Coakley from Western Mass is more likely to “ever” than EastMass Brosn/
effess Says: There’s a rumor around that Coakley is a secret New York Yankees fan.
In the intensifying Democratic precriminations game over who to blame if Coakley loses, here’s one for the blame Coakley camp: On another talk radio show, “Nightside With Dan Rea,” Coakley jabs Rudy Giuliani as a Yankee fan, then goes on to describe Brown supporter Curt Schilling, the great former Red Sox pitcher, as a Yankee fan as well.
The host sounds incredulous — “Curt Schilling? The Red Sox great pitcher of the bloody sock?” — and Coakley initially sounds unfamiliar with him. She eventually reverses herself, but it’s an odd moment in a state that was transfixed by Schilling’s performance in the 2004 World Series, where he helped the Red Sox win for the first time since 1918.
A Republican supplied the audio (and the YouTube caption). Coakley spokesman Alex Zaroulis described it as a “very, very deadpan” joke, and another Coakley spokesman emails to note that she has Sox among her supporters and that “Curt Schilling has been involved in a lot of strike outs over time. I guess Martha whiffed on that joke.
Were you referring to this?
Re Coakley saying this about Curt Schilling, I am reminded of John Kerry going to Green Bay to “Lambert Field,” as John F Kerryman described Lambeau Field. Maybe politicians should stay away from sports. Nixon giving George Allen a footbal play. Obama bowling 37.
Methinks the Dems were assuming that one of their own would automatically be elected in bluest of the blue States Massachusetts.
What’s that popular axiom about assuming again? 😉
Please bear with me, I keep asking the same question. I’m from the west coast and many of us don’t really have a firm grasp of the minutia of the local east coast political scene.
I earlier asked what was happening in MA, the very place that kept electing that despicable SOB Ted Kennedy ( is my bias showing?)
I just keep being puzzled over this. I’ve been digging around and one set of answers I’ve ran across is that the locals are born and raised to be Democrats similar to the situation in the south years ago. Another is that the system is so damn corrupt that there are substantial numbers of fraudulent votes cast on a routine basis.
Is any of this remotely true? It seems to me that MA may be poised on the brink of a truly siesmic shift if somehow they could possibly manage to elect someone close to the antithesis of the Coward of Chappaquiddick.
Is this gal Coakly really so inept that SHE is responsible for Brown getting as close as he has?
This whole thing has me a bit unnerved. I feel like I’m witnessing something extremely significant yet I’m not sure if I should believe my eyes. I am aware that my perspective is biased by an intense hatred of Ted Kennedy and and disgust for the people who have repeatedly voted for him. And there is my relative ignorance of the east coast to consider.
LOL, I even sent in some money the other day when the “moneybomb” was set off. I realize this guy Brown is most likely going to be the type of Republican that I find very frustrating. But I can live with that quite easily I think, if the ancesterial seat of the evil Kennedy clan is converted into a bright shining bastion of anti deepest blue.
The value from a propaganda and morale standpoint alone is almost priceless. I’m somewhatt giddy over the prospect and have an almost superstitious fear of counting my chickens before they hatch. Thank you for your patience.
Amused,
Fact of the matter is that Ted Kennedy was an excellent retail politician and, contrary to what you may have been lead to believe, a very likable and down to Earth man.
I live on Cape Cod and am a conservative. I never knew the man, only shook his hand a couple of times. I never voted for Ted, neither did my wife. However, in the course of her work as a nurse, my wife met Ted and his extended family on many occasions. She had no use for the vast majority of the Kennedy clan; she found them to be vain, condescending and a list of another dozen or so negative traits.
Not so Ted, he loved being around people and interacting with them.
My wife’s favorite story of him is when he was accompanying a sick loved one at the emergency room. He had set up shop in the center of the room where the doctors did their paperwork. He was quietly reading the Sunday Globe as people walked past doing double takes – is that Ted Kennedy? Anyone who approached him was warmly greeted and spoken with for however long the person wished.
Even Scott Brown remarked during the debate last week that his staff had been working with Kennedy’s staff in Washington (they’re still there) on some issue. His remark that Kennedy’s staff is excellent at constituent issues is quite correct.
I know that Kennedy did some awful things during his life. Those things should have cost him his seat in the Senate, indeed, if you or I had done those things we would likely been sent to prison. He was treated with kid gloves, given passes, winks, nods.
He knew that he would have to answer for his actions to an Authority that had no need of political favors. He seems to have been working awfully hard at making the ledger of his life come into balance.
It is not at all true that the voters in Massachusetts are all Democrats, indeed, even people that should know better like Charles Krauthammer, who went to medical school at Harvard and practiced for years at their psychiatric hospital, has been repeating the inaccurate factoid that we are 3:1 Democrats. Not true, most of us are enrolled as independents. Most of us are slightly right of center. I am knuckle-dragging, far right, wingnut Neanderthal, myself.
As to Scott Brown, he has been working very hard at becoming our next Senator for a long time – long before Kennedy passed away.
He is, and continues to be, a frequent call in guest to all of the radio talk shows in Boston and down here on the Cape. He is not a blowhard, he explains what is going on regarding a certain issue and what his opinion is. He gladly takes phone calls and mixes it up real well with both supporters and detractors. He is not by any stretch of the imagination a phony.
What is funny is that we first knew of him as the husband of a prominent television news reporter. His wife, Gail Huff, is a beat reporter for a local morning news program. She’s the one who is sent to the overnight fire, traffic accident, blizzard, etc. She is honest and straightforward. We knew of his daughter, Ayla, before we really knew of Scott. She of course was an American Idol contestant. So when Scott’s star began to rise, we already knew quite a bit about him by knowing his family.
Let’s be clear, Coakley has run a campaign for the ages; she has shown everyone how not to do it.
But it is abundantly clear that Brown knows exactly what he is doing. He has been running campaigns that have allowed him to be repeatedly elected to the Massachusetts House and Senate as a Republican in a district that in part also sends Barney Frank to Congress.
What I want to make perfectly clear to you is that this race is breaking strongly and affirmatively for Scott. His support is organic and well earned. He has been working his ass off for the past few months toward the goal of winning Tuesday. He has people fired up, engaged and mobilized. His phone centers are packed all over the state – some even have waiting lines of people that want to call. He has been out of signs and bumperstickers for a couple of weeks now, although his campaign office on the Cape here called last night to say that they had a bunch.
Funny story about the signs – a guy called a radio show last week to say that he had come home to find his Scott Brown sign had been stolen. Miffed, he walked to his front door where he found a note that had been left to him by the thief. It said that he had stolen the sign because he lived on a busier street and needed it more than the other guy.
I hope that helps. We’re not insane, we’re just crazy.
TmjUtah Says:
She means well. She just doesn’t get stuff done in the right order.
I’m sure Gerald Amirault would agree.
Sorry if someone has already linked this, but Iowahawk is running a contest for Stop Scott Brown radio ads. He’s even opened up the comments for submissions and has a lot of them. He’ll have the best ones made into actual audio clips.
In a world full of political disappointment and dismay there comes a time to ask the tough questions: What is the most disturbing thing about Scott Brown’s absurd assumption that “it’s the peoples’ seat”?
[dramatic pause with stabby violin noise]
. . .
. . .
Have you ever met “people”?
“People” are all around you: in-laws, loud neighbors, people who drive slow in the left lane, bored store clerks, Trekkies, car salesmen, funeral directors, tattoo artists, DMV clerks, and various grown men who still ride skateboards.
Do you really want these “people” in charge? People who make your quiet weekend a living hell? Those people?
Vote Democrat– and leave politics to the professionals.
This level of incompetence is inevitably achieved by any political machine so entrenched that they never need to think seriously about competitors. Negative selection for loyal opportunists make them ridiculously out of touch with the people or reality. Communists in Soviet Union achieved that stage circa 1989, when everybody began to wonder: what these clowns are thinking about?
History is a bitch. When somebody arrogantly assumes that he knows her ways, she always ready to ambush him with nasty surprizes.
Its only stupifying if one regards it as one used to regard things in a meritocracy… if one were to regard it as a feudal state, then its exactly what it is, but not what you ever imagined. that is, the masses were never stupid, they knew that the lords were mostly incompetent (history though notes the ones that werent quite favorably), and the lords with their heads in a closed world lived a fantasy of look how we make the world run and how wonderful the things we do are (believing that since the people dont storm the walls on the smallest pretense, they dont actually know or see whats going on).
failure to react does not mean failure to perceive
the more astute feudal lords get this, which is why they live more in the fear of the last straw which breaks the camels back and brings upon their doom. (those who dont realize completely the game through inexperience, tend to blithly drive over the line and then dont get why suddenly they are under the crushing thumb. so they give a paranoid answer, that the other side orchestrated it, because to them the people are to stupid to actually have known)
i hope i put that good in a short space.
Ever? Don’t know about that. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s 2002 campaign for Maryland governor was awful. There wasn’t any issue that had people riled against the Democrats, and she supposedly had that Kennedy magic. But she flopped badly, in a state as blue as Massachusetts.
This year, part of Brown’s appeal is anti-Obamaism. He’ll throw snowballs at Washington; he’ll vote against Obamacare; he’ll, I don’t know, put backbone in the Senate Republicans? Also, he’s a great candidate, good personality, fast on his feet. That put pressure on Coakley, and her campaign goofed. It’s akin to Kerry’s “I voted against it after I voted for it.”
There’s a Kennedy link to the two campaigns, Townsend’s and Coakley’s. That may be coincidence, or maybe there’s some message. Maybe the message is that the Ambassador, Teddy’s father, was the real secret to that family’s political success.
She’s a robot. But she was not programmed very carefully because the Democrats didn’t think they’d have a problem coasting to victory in Massachusetts. And now it’s too late… mwa-ha-ha!
turfmann, thanks for those sane, fair and informative remarks. I lived in Massachusetts for a while and still have friends and family there, but my experience of the state is very different from yours because my connections are all to the magical, mystical Pioneer Valley in Western Mass. Evvvvvvvvvvverybody there is a liberal or something well to the left of that. If they aren’t, they don’t say so out loud.
My friends in the Happy Valley all fit the profile, so I am afraid to ask them what they think of the Brown/Coakley campaign. Instead, I looked up a news-and-commentary site that focuses on the Pioneer Valley, found an AP article on the campaign, and read the comments. Surprise! Only one was from a Coakley fan, and she sounded embattled and depressed. All the other commenters said they were Dems who planned to vote for Brown — and several added, spontaneously, that they regretted voting for Obama.
Ah, yes! The Happy Valley! The land that time forgot.
As it so happens, I am a UMass alumni and fondly remember my time in Amherst (curiously pronounced without the ‘h’ by the locals and without the ‘r’ by the Bostonians; stay there long enough you pronounce it with neither – “Amist”)
What is funny about my time there is that I (along with many others) voted for Reagan twice, was constantly deluged with cries for ‘civility’ and ‘tolerance’ (for everyone except the conservative thinking types), treated to diatribes by professors who thought that we paid umpteen thousands to sit and listen to what they thought about current events.
For all their efforts to indoctrinate, I came out of there a conservative.
Very nice people… wacky politics, but very nice.
Here’s a radio interview from the 15th with Tookie Amirault that needs to go ballistic:
Turfmann…Your 6:38am comment is a balanced, sane, clear, tempered Winner. Thanks !
Turfmann,
Thank you for your illuminating reply. I am aware of at least some of my biases, it is probably impossible for me to get past my visceral loathing of the man’s cowardice abandoning that girl to die. Perhaps I set the bar to high.
Amused Observer: It is rather that all of us are mixed bags. Neither Turfman nor I have any love for the Hyannisport clan. My loathing of the clan in general came from what a childhood friend told me about working for the Kennedys in Hyannisport one summer. As my friend put it, while the Kennedys present themselves as rich people with a conscience, they are merely rich people.
I saw a video of Ted singing a Mexican song in bad Spanish and off key. That part of him endeared him to me.
The line on Ted has always been that he was a great person to share drinks with and chew the fat. The guy had Irish politician and Irish storyteller deeply embedded in his genes.
Just don’t let him near your daughter or your legislature. While by all accounts he was a conscientious and hard working legislator, we would be better off if he hadn’t worked so hard. Better he had drunk and fornicated more and legislated less.
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It is, a level of tonal deafness, rarely witnessed.
Actually quite breathtaking in its stupefying, open-mouth evoking, political incompetency is it not?
And a perfect barometer of an agenda completely divorced from reality. Which is, to some degree, a mild form of insanity.
With identity politics you don’t have to campaign. The minorities vote the right way. The unions vote the right way. The single women vote the right way. The trial lawyers vote the right way. The educators vote the right way, and so on and so forth. And of course, your people count the votes. I’ll be stunned if Brown pulls it off.
Incompetent? Moi?
Once or twice a day I’ve asked myself just how stupid the Coakley campaign is. And at least once a day, they tell me!
Having said that: Geoffrey Britain is right, of course. A more concise illustration of the state of the Democratic Party could hardly be imagined. I just told Mr. Bother about it and he asked if it was certain it’s not a spoof.
There’s a rumor around that Coakley is a secret New York Yankees fan.
She’s got to get elected before she can destroy the system from within.
She means well. She just doesn’t get stuff done in the right order.
Martha Coakley and her campaign have reached the level of stupidity usually reserved for sea slugs and reality show contestants. Such monumental idiocy should be studied before it goes extinct, preferably through an airtight glass barrier until stupidity has been conclusively proven to be non-airborne. I am shocked that scientists have not leaped on this opportunity to conclusively prove the fact that humans are evolved from sea slime, and that some humans still bear the mental capacities of such semi-sentient invertebrates.
There. I’m all done with the “Martha Coakley = Stupid” thing. But seriously, folks. The hell. I’ve heard of neo-Nazis with more sensitive and effective campaigns.
– G
Neo, not evah ? Though Coakley from Western Mass is more likely to “ever” than EastMass Brosn/
effess Says:
There’s a rumor around that Coakley is a secret New York Yankees fan.
Coakley dismisses Schilling: ‘Another Yankee fan’
Were you referring to this?
Re Coakley saying this about Curt Schilling, I am reminded of John Kerry going to Green Bay to “Lambert Field,” as John F Kerryman described Lambeau Field. Maybe politicians should stay away from sports. Nixon giving George Allen a footbal play. Obama bowling 37.
Methinks the Dems were assuming that one of their own would automatically be elected in bluest of the blue States Massachusetts.
What’s that popular axiom about assuming again? 😉
Please bear with me, I keep asking the same question. I’m from the west coast and many of us don’t really have a firm grasp of the minutia of the local east coast political scene.
I earlier asked what was happening in MA, the very place that kept electing that despicable SOB Ted Kennedy ( is my bias showing?)
I just keep being puzzled over this. I’ve been digging around and one set of answers I’ve ran across is that the locals are born and raised to be Democrats similar to the situation in the south years ago. Another is that the system is so damn corrupt that there are substantial numbers of fraudulent votes cast on a routine basis.
Is any of this remotely true? It seems to me that MA may be poised on the brink of a truly siesmic shift if somehow they could possibly manage to elect someone close to the antithesis of the Coward of Chappaquiddick.
Is this gal Coakly really so inept that SHE is responsible for Brown getting as close as he has?
This whole thing has me a bit unnerved. I feel like I’m witnessing something extremely significant yet I’m not sure if I should believe my eyes. I am aware that my perspective is biased by an intense hatred of Ted Kennedy and and disgust for the people who have repeatedly voted for him. And there is my relative ignorance of the east coast to consider.
LOL, I even sent in some money the other day when the “moneybomb” was set off. I realize this guy Brown is most likely going to be the type of Republican that I find very frustrating. But I can live with that quite easily I think, if the ancesterial seat of the evil Kennedy clan is converted into a bright shining bastion of anti deepest blue.
The value from a propaganda and morale standpoint alone is almost priceless. I’m somewhatt giddy over the prospect and have an almost superstitious fear of counting my chickens before they hatch. Thank you for your patience.
Amused,
Fact of the matter is that Ted Kennedy was an excellent retail politician and, contrary to what you may have been lead to believe, a very likable and down to Earth man.
I live on Cape Cod and am a conservative. I never knew the man, only shook his hand a couple of times. I never voted for Ted, neither did my wife. However, in the course of her work as a nurse, my wife met Ted and his extended family on many occasions. She had no use for the vast majority of the Kennedy clan; she found them to be vain, condescending and a list of another dozen or so negative traits.
Not so Ted, he loved being around people and interacting with them.
My wife’s favorite story of him is when he was accompanying a sick loved one at the emergency room. He had set up shop in the center of the room where the doctors did their paperwork. He was quietly reading the Sunday Globe as people walked past doing double takes – is that Ted Kennedy? Anyone who approached him was warmly greeted and spoken with for however long the person wished.
Even Scott Brown remarked during the debate last week that his staff had been working with Kennedy’s staff in Washington (they’re still there) on some issue. His remark that Kennedy’s staff is excellent at constituent issues is quite correct.
I know that Kennedy did some awful things during his life. Those things should have cost him his seat in the Senate, indeed, if you or I had done those things we would likely been sent to prison. He was treated with kid gloves, given passes, winks, nods.
He knew that he would have to answer for his actions to an Authority that had no need of political favors. He seems to have been working awfully hard at making the ledger of his life come into balance.
It is not at all true that the voters in Massachusetts are all Democrats, indeed, even people that should know better like Charles Krauthammer, who went to medical school at Harvard and practiced for years at their psychiatric hospital, has been repeating the inaccurate factoid that we are 3:1 Democrats. Not true, most of us are enrolled as independents. Most of us are slightly right of center. I am knuckle-dragging, far right, wingnut Neanderthal, myself.
As to Scott Brown, he has been working very hard at becoming our next Senator for a long time – long before Kennedy passed away.
He is, and continues to be, a frequent call in guest to all of the radio talk shows in Boston and down here on the Cape. He is not a blowhard, he explains what is going on regarding a certain issue and what his opinion is. He gladly takes phone calls and mixes it up real well with both supporters and detractors. He is not by any stretch of the imagination a phony.
What is funny is that we first knew of him as the husband of a prominent television news reporter. His wife, Gail Huff, is a beat reporter for a local morning news program. She’s the one who is sent to the overnight fire, traffic accident, blizzard, etc. She is honest and straightforward. We knew of his daughter, Ayla, before we really knew of Scott. She of course was an American Idol contestant. So when Scott’s star began to rise, we already knew quite a bit about him by knowing his family.
Let’s be clear, Coakley has run a campaign for the ages; she has shown everyone how not to do it.
But it is abundantly clear that Brown knows exactly what he is doing. He has been running campaigns that have allowed him to be repeatedly elected to the Massachusetts House and Senate as a Republican in a district that in part also sends Barney Frank to Congress.
What I want to make perfectly clear to you is that this race is breaking strongly and affirmatively for Scott. His support is organic and well earned. He has been working his ass off for the past few months toward the goal of winning Tuesday. He has people fired up, engaged and mobilized. His phone centers are packed all over the state – some even have waiting lines of people that want to call. He has been out of signs and bumperstickers for a couple of weeks now, although his campaign office on the Cape here called last night to say that they had a bunch.
Funny story about the signs – a guy called a radio show last week to say that he had come home to find his Scott Brown sign had been stolen. Miffed, he walked to his front door where he found a note that had been left to him by the thief. It said that he had stolen the sign because he lived on a busier street and needed it more than the other guy.
I hope that helps. We’re not insane, we’re just crazy.
TmjUtah Says:
She means well. She just doesn’t get stuff done in the right order.
I’m sure Gerald Amirault would agree.
Sorry if someone has already linked this, but Iowahawk is running a contest for Stop Scott Brown radio ads. He’s even opened up the comments for submissions and has a lot of them. He’ll have the best ones made into actual audio clips.
You’ve Got to Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Negative
Here’s a sample:
This level of incompetence is inevitably achieved by any political machine so entrenched that they never need to think seriously about competitors. Negative selection for loyal opportunists make them ridiculously out of touch with the people or reality. Communists in Soviet Union achieved that stage circa 1989, when everybody began to wonder: what these clowns are thinking about?
History is a bitch. When somebody arrogantly assumes that he knows her ways, she always ready to ambush him with nasty surprizes.
Its only stupifying if one regards it as one used to regard things in a meritocracy… if one were to regard it as a feudal state, then its exactly what it is, but not what you ever imagined. that is, the masses were never stupid, they knew that the lords were mostly incompetent (history though notes the ones that werent quite favorably), and the lords with their heads in a closed world lived a fantasy of look how we make the world run and how wonderful the things we do are (believing that since the people dont storm the walls on the smallest pretense, they dont actually know or see whats going on).
failure to react does not mean failure to perceive
the more astute feudal lords get this, which is why they live more in the fear of the last straw which breaks the camels back and brings upon their doom. (those who dont realize completely the game through inexperience, tend to blithly drive over the line and then dont get why suddenly they are under the crushing thumb. so they give a paranoid answer, that the other side orchestrated it, because to them the people are to stupid to actually have known)
i hope i put that good in a short space.
Ever? Don’t know about that. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s 2002 campaign for Maryland governor was awful. There wasn’t any issue that had people riled against the Democrats, and she supposedly had that Kennedy magic. But she flopped badly, in a state as blue as Massachusetts.
This year, part of Brown’s appeal is anti-Obamaism. He’ll throw snowballs at Washington; he’ll vote against Obamacare; he’ll, I don’t know, put backbone in the Senate Republicans? Also, he’s a great candidate, good personality, fast on his feet. That put pressure on Coakley, and her campaign goofed. It’s akin to Kerry’s “I voted against it after I voted for it.”
There’s a Kennedy link to the two campaigns, Townsend’s and Coakley’s. That may be coincidence, or maybe there’s some message. Maybe the message is that the Ambassador, Teddy’s father, was the real secret to that family’s political success.
She’s a robot. But she was not programmed very carefully because the Democrats didn’t think they’d have a problem coasting to victory in Massachusetts. And now it’s too late… mwa-ha-ha!
turfmann, thanks for those sane, fair and informative remarks. I lived in Massachusetts for a while and still have friends and family there, but my experience of the state is very different from yours because my connections are all to the magical, mystical Pioneer Valley in Western Mass. Evvvvvvvvvvverybody there is a liberal or something well to the left of that. If they aren’t, they don’t say so out loud.
My friends in the Happy Valley all fit the profile, so I am afraid to ask them what they think of the Brown/Coakley campaign. Instead, I looked up a news-and-commentary site that focuses on the Pioneer Valley, found an AP article on the campaign, and read the comments. Surprise! Only one was from a Coakley fan, and she sounded embattled and depressed. All the other commenters said they were Dems who planned to vote for Brown — and several added, spontaneously, that they regretted voting for Obama.
Very interesting indeed.
It’s not even funny!
Mrs. Whatsit,
Ah, yes! The Happy Valley! The land that time forgot.
As it so happens, I am a UMass alumni and fondly remember my time in Amherst (curiously pronounced without the ‘h’ by the locals and without the ‘r’ by the Bostonians; stay there long enough you pronounce it with neither – “Amist”)
What is funny about my time there is that I (along with many others) voted for Reagan twice, was constantly deluged with cries for ‘civility’ and ‘tolerance’ (for everyone except the conservative thinking types), treated to diatribes by professors who thought that we paid umpteen thousands to sit and listen to what they thought about current events.
For all their efforts to indoctrinate, I came out of there a conservative.
Very nice people… wacky politics, but very nice.
Here’s a radio interview from the 15th with Tookie Amirault that needs to go ballistic:
http://radioequalizer.blogspot.com/2010/01/martha-coakley-called-to-account-for.html
Coakley has apparently also infringed the UPS trademark. And she’s a lawyer?
Martha’s motto: Leave no rake unstepped on.
Turfmann…Your 6:38am comment is a balanced, sane, clear, tempered Winner. Thanks !
Turfmann,
Thank you for your illuminating reply. I am aware of at least some of my biases, it is probably impossible for me to get past my visceral loathing of the man’s cowardice abandoning that girl to die. Perhaps I set the bar to high.
Amused Observer: It is rather that all of us are mixed bags. Neither Turfman nor I have any love for the Hyannisport clan. My loathing of the clan in general came from what a childhood friend told me about working for the Kennedys in Hyannisport one summer. As my friend put it, while the Kennedys present themselves as rich people with a conscience, they are merely rich people.
I saw a video of Ted singing a Mexican song in bad Spanish and off key. That part of him endeared him to me.
The line on Ted has always been that he was a great person to share drinks with and chew the fat. The guy had Irish politician and Irish storyteller deeply embedded in his genes.
Just don’t let him near your daughter or your legislature. While by all accounts he was a conscientious and hard working legislator, we would be better off if he hadn’t worked so hard. Better he had drunk and fornicated more and legislated less.