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Schadow
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 Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 1:50 pm Post subject: Kerry Forced to Campaign. Oh! The Humanity! |
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From the Boston Herald today:
| Quote: | Thanks to rival, Sen. John Kerry set for summer among commoners
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, June 11, 2008
This is John Forbes Kerry’s worst nightmare: He’s going to have to spend the summer campaigning . . . on the mainland.
Fall River, Chicopee, Haverhill, Lynn, Fitchburg - not a single one of those sweaty cities has any windsurfing worth a damn, not to mention a Ducati motorcycle dealer, damn, but Liveshot is going to spend the next three months pressing the flesh in those wretched burgs, searching in vain for a proper nouvelle cuisine brassiere while enduring the foul breath of the plebeians . . .
Stand by, Sen. Kerry, for an endless schedule of kielbasa festivals, parades, motorcycle rallies, town concerts, fireworks displays, questionnaires from special-interest groups and maybe even, gulp, a televised debate or two. Kerry’s already had to endure a Celtics playoff game. Instead of the Inn at Wauwinet, this summer Kerry will be dining at Coney Island Hot Dog in Worcester. Next thing you know, some beer-guzzling peasant in a No. 12 Patriots jersey is going to be asking him about . . . baseball.
Lovey, does “Manny Ortiz” still play for the Red Sox?
And Liveshot knows who is responsible for this living hell that he now must endure all the way to the primary Sept. 16. It is Ed O’Reilly. The Gloucester lawyer will be on the ballot against him in the Democratic primary.
Ed O’Reilly. How dare this Hibernian parvenu dare to run against John F. Kerry, America’s Gigolo? How dare 22.8 percent of the delegates to the state convention vote for this, this . . . arriviste?
That phrase in the first paragraph, “on the mainland,” that comes from O’Reilly. He used it when I was talking to him the other night. He’s got Kerry’s number all right. He’s a bit of a moonbat, I suppose, but when you get somebody who’s running against Liveshot who’s willing to play the class card, I can overlook a lot.
He knows how to push the buttons that will drive Kerry crazy, which is what is going to wreck Liveshot’s summer. There won’t be much time for Kerry on the Let It Be, just because O’Reilly wouldn’t let it be. Why, O’Reilly is even ready to talk about Naushon Island, the personal preserve of the Forbes family.
“He always says he was raised on the Cape,” O’Reilly says. “Yeah, he was raised on this island, which if you or I take a little skiff across the water and try to land on that island, people are going to come out onto the beach and tell us we’re trespassing.”
O’Reilly says, about five weeks ago, he was leaving a Democratic meeting at the Hudson Portuguese Club when he ran into his opponent arriving. Here is his recollection of the conversation:
O’Reilly: “I guess we’ll be seeing a lot of each other.”
Kerry: “Not for long, I hope.”
Sorry, Liveshot, you lose!
“The bottom line is, he’s arrogant,” O’Reilly says. “The rules don’t apply to him. He announces, there’s a thousand-dollar minimum to attend, if you want to go to the private reception it’s $2,300. Do you know how many people I talk to who say the only place they’ve ever seen him is at the airport? . . . He flies down to Bali to give a speech on global warming - how many gallons of fuel do you think that used, just so he could say he delivered a speech?”
I’m sure O’Reilly is nowhere in the polls right now, but this is a perfect opportunity for mischief - this could become a Massachusetts version of Operation Chaos, the meddling of local Republicans in a Democratic primary, the way Rush Limbaugh tried to keep Hillary Clinton alive through April and May.
“John Kerry,” O’Reilly continued, “will go whichever way the wind blows for his own political advantage.”
I propose a series of 10 pre-primary debates, the first one to be held on, where else, Naushon Island. |
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kate
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 12:04 am Post subject: |
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Oh! The In - Humanity! Indeed
Liveshot, in all his arogance, had tried to use his influence to keep this nuisance candidate out of his way. Apparently in skerry's world, a citizen seeking political office is a mere nuisance
BostonHerald
John Kerry aims to thwart Democrat challenger
June 3, 2008 | Dave Wedge
| Quote: | U.S. Sen. John Kerry - wary of a potential political embarrassment - has been calling in favors to top Bay State Democrats in a bid to block a Gloucester lawyer from getting on the ballot to challenge him, the Herald has learned.
Several high-ranking Democrats said the senator has reached out in recent days seeking support and asking for help in preventing attorney Ed O’Reilly from getting the convention votes he needs to force a September primary race against Kerry.
O’Reilly, a former firefighter, needs 15 percent support from the Democratic State Committee at the party’s convention Saturday in Lowell to get on the ballot. He did not return calls yesterday.
Kerry campaign spokesman Roger Lau said: “The senator has been in Massachusetts politics for a long time and he believes what Tip O’Neill said, that all politics is local. You have to ask everyone. You can’t take (support) for granted.”
Insiders say Kerry has drawn the ire of some party officials for backing Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the presidential primary race and that some may use Saturday’s convention to exact political payback.
Clinton backers recently showed their clout in intra-party elections, ousting longtime state delegate Margaret Xiafaras, reportedly because she backed Obama.
“In a (presidential) primary race as close as this one has been, it would not surprise me to see people take sides and for there to be hard feelings,” said state Sen. Jack Hart. “I know the Kerry campaign is calling around to all the delegates, which they haven’t done in the past, asking for their support.”
If O’Reilly gets on the ballot, he would be Kerry’s first primary opponent since 1984.
“They want to put him on the ballot,” said one longtime party operative. “They figure it ruins Kerry’s summer by making him have to campaign in the state.”
But state Auditor Joseph DeNucci, a Clinton backer, said Kerry deserves the party’s full support.
“I’m with him,” DeNucci said. “He’s an incumbent. He’s been a good senator. It wouldn’t look too good for the Democratic party to come out against one of its own.”
Former state Democratic Party chairman Chester Atkins added: “John is an important senator, an important partner to Ted Kennedy and an important national voice. To have John distracted by someone who is just a nuisance candidate would be unfortunate.”
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Deuce
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 7:09 pm Post subject: |
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Did Obama win Massachussetts??? ie did Kerry actually 'help' Obama, or is he gonna be like Bill Clinton was to Hillary......all hat and no cattle?
Also, any local Mass non-moonbat websites actually following the 'race'? |
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Anker-Klanker
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Location: Richardson, TX
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| Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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So illuminating...
| Quote: | ...U.S. Sen. John Kerry - wary of a potential political embarrassment - has been calling in favors to top Bay State Democrats in a bid to block a Gloucester lawyer from getting on the ballot to challenge him, the Herald has learned.
Several high-ranking Democrats said the senator has reached out in recent days seeking support and asking for help in preventing attorney Ed O’Reilly from getting the convention votes he needs to force a September primary race against Kerry... |
It's interesting to see just how much Kerry and Massachusetts Democratic Machine cherish the idea of a democracy. You know, the concept of letting the voters get to choose who represents them...
| Quote: | | If O’Reilly gets on the ballot, he would be Kerry’s first primary opponent since 1984. |
Not a heck of a lot of difference in these democratic political tactics and those practiced by Robert Mugabe [sp?] and Hugo Chavez, is there? So how do those Massachusetts liberal idealists explain, or rationalize, this kind of naked power play? |
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