Caroline Kennedy sinks
Latest poll shows that the public has soured quickly on Special K.
Message from voters: No, Miss Thang, you are not entitled.
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They should give it to someone without a trust fund. I wouldn’t care, but they get a great pension for serving even one day in the senate. They get it for life. I would hope that there would be a more needy and qualified individual than Kennedy for this spot.
Polling won’t matter, not even her speaking ability (see Obama’s “uh’s”). Every other word is “you know”.
Patterson will do what he wants to do and that’s all that matters. It’s the year of the cram-the-Democrat-down-our-throats.
Rev. Al Sharpton???
I know. Bad JohnnyD. Bad!
What the public thinks has nothing whatever to do with what Gov. Paterson will decide. If she raises enough money for him or has enough clout with Party insiders (neither of which seems to be the case but, not being a Democrat, I don’t really know) she’s in. If not, she’s out.
…till-we-choke.
Maybe she can shed a tear like Mein Fuhrer and Hillary did – both fakers.
Or claim sexism.
She is a democrat, after all.
Well, uh, ya know, she’s, ya know, a KENNEDY! So, uh, ya know, that, uh, ya know, is all the, ya know, qualification she, uh, ya know, needs.
This clears the way for Billy Jeff to assume the family seat in Lords. He can while away his time in literary pursuits (bending over pages) and feeling everybody’s pain.
poor thing, how will she survive on 500 million?
Now, you know, her finances were, um , never, you know, disclosed, you know, so I’m just , you know, assuming that , that was, you know, just a WAG, on your part, you know.
You know, it is not a born right for a Kennedy who has no political experience to take a vacant seat and and continue to show America & the world that they are unworthy of their place in politics. Camelot died decades ago and the Kennedy fascination with it for most of the American people.
There are too many elected officials that need to be replaced as it is. Americans need to look at the accomplishments of their elected representives and see if they are voting for the rights & needs of the people that they represent or for the ones who are lining their pockets. They can & should be replaced, you know.
No name should allow anyone the right to something unearned. Just like Reid & Polosi and many others.
Rogue, I do have my B.S. so it was a SWAG.
Was there a poll somewhere that showed voters believed C. Kennedy was qualified for the job? These are the same voters that thought Palin was NOT qualified. Stupid voter syndrome?
I am taking credit for making that one up!
AJ has his BS alright!
Not a Democrat way of reasoning.
Paterson is the non-elected govenor appointing a senator. Apperently not many elected officials in my state representing me. Paterson wants to run for the govenor seat come election time and Kennedy can help him with that (I guess she helped Obama). He will appoint her strictly because he can benefit from her politically. On the plus side, seeing as she isn’t doing well in the polls, when she actually runs for the seat, there is a better chance a republican can get in. Not unheard of in N.Y., afterall, Shumer is in the seat that was once Demato’s
It appears to me that the primary reason for all of this turmoil is a basic philosophical differnce between the rank and file Democrats and the Democrat leadership.
Harry Reid said it point blank the other day. The people would like Senators who are quaified to a reasonable degree and who would represent them. Reid’s and the party’s ONLY criteria is the appointees potential re-electability; who cares if they can legislate and put forth solutions.
It is apparent from Reid and Pelosi’s actions that in their view all legislation flows from the party leaders. The opposition party is to be silenced and their party memebers in Congress only exist to rubber stamp what’s presented. As long as they can be re-elected, the elites can continue on this path.
Clearly, most Americans, Democrat, Republican, Independent, or something else know intuitively that their “model” is inherently disasterous for our country. But then who in the Democrat leadership gives a rat’s rear about the country as long as they can stay in power?
Camelot was a media construct. Kennedy was tested and found wanting as a president. He bungled Cuba, flinched before Kruschev and deepened our involvement in Vietnam. Not too much to be proud of there, in my opinion. Oh, and he cheated on his wife early and often.
With all due respect, what’s so great about the Kennedys anyway???
The LAST thing we need in this country is another Kennedy bossing us around.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Can you use “Kennedy” and “sinks” in the same sentence?
Yes.You.Can.
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At least she is a nice lady – not like that monster Franken-stein. He didnt win, he stole.
SAoap has chappy syndrome.
She didn’t want to steal the seat, just buy it.
Let that be a lesson to anyone interested in holding public office. Be a quick thinker who knows how to talk and ’splain things’ during an interview. IMO C Kennedy is not qualified to hold a high office so those “you know”s are a blessing.
Message to Mrs. Palin: Please practice practice practice because you dear lady, have great potential.
I will say that JFK understood economics, knew evil when he saw it, and was willing to confront it.
If a Republican plagarized and read a JFK speech today verbatim, he would be branded a right-wing extremist by the very Democrats who worship at JFK’s altar. That’s the irony of JFK.
Three things wrong with American politics today:
1. carpetbagging (hilary clinton prime example).
2. replacing elected officials who die, resign, or are fired while still in office with gubernatorial appointments. They should be replaced with special elections.
3. voters selecting candidates based on star quality or name recognition instead of substance (Barack Obama prime example). C. Kennedy was counting on this, but may have gotten her comeuppance when she opened her mouth.
Sadly, “we the sheeple” is no longer a laughing matter. I like “On-my-soap-box’s (#13) line “Stupid Voter Syndrome”. I’m afraid there is no cure.
I’ll give JFK credit for loving and serving his country…but that’s what I would expect of any president (or senator for that matter)…his last name didn’t endow him with those qualities, though. They run through the veins of any red-blooded, patriotic American.
I see what you mean about a Repub speaking JFK’s words today…same goes for the liberal establishment forgetting about MLK Jr being a Republican.
History can be an inconvenience at times.
Speaking of JFK, have you seen the new Obama coin set?
UGH
On a coin with JFK and Washington.
5th Beatle? Greek God? Master of the universe?
5th Beatle? Greek God? Master of the universe?…… dipstick.
Yep, those facts are pesky things…
Accuracy counts.
Since when does what a NY voter want matter?
In order to lose office, a NY Democrat officeholder would have to get caught with a hooker. It’s fun when it happens, but it is rare.
I read a book about the assassination of JFK and the author claimed that the reason for his infidelity was the steroids he was given for his bad back. To the author, the fault lies with naval doctor and Kennedy’s personal “Dr. Feelgood” that supplied him with whatever medication they could. The fact that Kennedy chose these people just never clicked with the author.
So, once again, it’s not the person, it’s the drugs.
Camelot = trash, rubbish. So true. Both in Machatusets and in France. Check your French-English dictionary. She inherited all her genes from grandpa who set the example for his bed-hopping sons and grandkids. Shame.
Well, if she is really serious about this Senate seat, then she should run for it in 2010. If the people want her, they’ll vote for her. In no way should she be entitled to this seat because she’s a “Kennedy” or she’s a woman, or she can raise money, etc.
As someone who lives in the Empire state I am never ceased to be amazed at the stupidity of my fellow (liberal) New Yorkers. First they bought what Hilary was selling. Now it has become obvious that she wants to be ANYTHING but the State Senator from New York.
Now we have um,um, huh, well, you know, you know, princess Caroline. Call me a “half empty glass” kind of guy, but 44% still leaves 55% who think she is swell. And us conservatives are the ones who perpetuate a stuffy, stuck up “old boys club”? Call me crazy, but being a conservative in NY state is about as “Punk Rock” as you can get.
What are you, some kind of conservative or something?
Unwilling to control the organ.
The UN-ELECTED Gov of New York, appoints the UN-ELECTED SENATOR for New York… Makes sense to me!!!
So was MLK Sr. In fact, from 1865 to 1935, all african-americans elected to Congress were Republicans. They knew who the enemy was – democrats. The democrats started the KKK with the sole intent of stopping, and if necessary killing, Republicans.
During the latter half of the 19th century, when the Republicans had power, they passed lots of civil rights legislation. When the democrats came to power, they repealed that legislation which led to the Jim Crow laws – all enacted by democrats. The democrats also got their judges on SCOTUS and they gave us Plessy vs. Ferguson. For those of you that don’t know, that’s the doctrine of “separate, but equal.” Yes, thanks to the democrats.
When TR became president in 1901, being a Republican, he integrated the government. Taft, a Republican, kept that policy too. When Wilson, a socialist democrat, took office he segregated the government.
In the 1920s with the democrats lynching many blacks, the Republicans in congress wanted to make lynching a federal crime, because the democrats in the state governments weren’t doing anything about it. All the Republicans voted for the law, all the democrats voted against it.
Truman may have integrated the military but that was political expediancy. Johnson signed the civil rights act, though it should have been signed by Eisenhower. The democrats blocked it during Eisenhower’s presidency and tried to again in 1965. (Al Gore, Sr. and Harry Byrd most noticibly). But Johnson got support from the Republicans, so it passed. Had it passed in 1955, this country would have been spared much bloodshed and may have even ended the civil rights violence before it started.
The history of the democrats in this country has always been one of pro-slavery, pro-segregation, and anti-civil rights. It is to this day.
pueblo1032 Repeated what I pointed out earlier. On the plus side, there are several things actually working in favor of Republicans in NY right now….The Gov. will run for election and can be beaten, I believe, easily. C.Kennedy is very easily beaten when she actually does run for the Senate seat. And Bloomberg (Please let him run for a third term!) must run as an Independant now, meaning he will have ,not one, but TWO parties to run against. And Bloomberg will NOT win (the borough that got him elected twice will not re-elect him this time around…that being Staten Island). So, there is some possibly good news on the horizon in the Empire State.
Uh…the Lietenant Governor is elected for the express purpose of stepping in if the current governor can no longer serve.
We can thank them for creating the problem, then offering their “solution”–a welfare state.
Between the Kennedies, John Kerry, and Barney Frank… I’ve come to the conclusion that Massachusetts just hates the rest of America. There can be no other reason those tools are continually reelected.
UNLESS their vote counters flew in from Chicago to help out…
OOPS, forgot about MN.
Yeah. Nixon appointed Ford as VP and then he resigned. Then Ford appointed Rockefeller as VP.
The liberals screamed bloody murder about an appointed president appointing a VP. Now the shoe is on the other foot. Oops.
BTW TooMuchTime, thanks for the history lesson.
And Washington state.
Seriously, the Democrats have this election stealing thing down to an art form.
I am not even sure what to make of this.
Are dem fightin’ words? Is soap now forced to defend his honor?
Honestly though, no one expected Elliot “Dudley Do Right” Spitzer to be publicly disgraced into resigning, so it’s a little misleading to insinuate Patterson was elected with that possibility in the front of most voters’ minds.
And they’re proud of it, too…remember, to libs, “the ends justify the means.”
Time for REVOLUTION!!
How Senators are replaced is a matter left to each state. I would prefer a special election to give the people a voice, BUT the issue of states rights is to me paramount.
The citizens of the various states decide the method of replacement.
Yes, MtsEdge. The liberals’ 40 year war on poverty still has no exit strategy.
It has been proven that before the “war on poverty” even started, the standard of living of the poor was on the rise. But you’re not allowed to know that. So now, you must
diebe re-educated. Please take your shovel to the train station for immediate transfer to a re-education camp.You forgot the Dems tried for decades to keep blacks from voting.
Great book on the subjects you have posted.
Let’s not let facts get in the way of “truth”.
More facts on Dems vs Repubs on Civil Rights.
???? If that is not the criteria for voting for a LT. Governor than what is? Given air crashes, sudden death, etc. there seem to be ample reasons to assume a Governor might not complete their term.
Yeah, but the donks own everything now: the schools, the media, the courts, and the government. We’re totally screwed unless, in complete contrast to all of human history, absolute power does not corrupt absolutely.
chap,
If we must fight, we MUST stick together to fight off those zombies! There is little time to worry about my honor!
Soap, I wasn’t able to open this link.
TMT, it makes me appreciate Reagan’s war on the commies during the 40’s that much more. And of course, what McCarthy did for our country. They knew what was coming.
I’ll get my shovel and striped pajamas now. Train’s coming.
I guess I can understand the Dem’s longing for the days of Camelot. Compared to the current bunch of corrupt clowns running the Democrat party Kennedy, as deified by 45 years of Democrat propaganda, looks pretty good!
It opens a PDF file if that helps.
MtsEdge,
Try this link. It is the second article down.
Hopefully, this will be the last we hear from her. All the country needs is AFK for the Senate.
“AFK?” Away from Keyboard?
How about we start calling her “C. ‘You Know’ Kennedy.
CYKK – kinda sounds like a printer cartridge for an ink jet…
Soap, thanks.
Another F ‘ing Kennedy
DUDE! +1
The only Kennedy I feel sorry for was Jackie who married into this disfunctional family.
Dems are NEVER responsible for their actions. In fact, I don’t think Democrats can say the phrase “Personal Responsibility” without their heads exploding.
This is the funny thing about the Blago situation. The Dems were hoping that he would just resign and go away after the Feds busted him. But he didn’t go away like Spitzer and now the Feds are dragging their heels in the criminal process and the Dems in Illinois don’t want to impeach and don’t want to do anything else about him. I suspect it is due to fear of what Blago might reveal about others in Illinois politics.
Did she go for a ride with Uncle Ted?
Don’t know what all the fuss is about, really. Put her in office and let her be the Dem’s candidate for the seat when it comes up for election….she’ll lose! Hey, it’s not like Paterson is going to appoint anything but a Democrat anyway!
Let’s see, JFK served in the Navy, so did RFK and then it went downhill. Teddy gets kicked out of Harvard for cheating on a Spanish class test, later does a year or so in the Army doing who knows what and then rides the ravy train for the rest of his life. John Jr. cruises through life until he has to take a test based on merit aka the NY Bar exam and flunks multiple times before passing and then does mediocre work as a ADA. His sister marries rich and does charity work. AND THIS? qualifies them to be the royal family? Nah! I don’t think so. Royal families are for IslamoEurope and the Middle East and not the U.S. Hit the road Caroline!
Another Kennedy goes splat? But if Dear Uncle Teddy should somehow leave us who will heal the wounds of the world?
Oh, BroBama, He Who We Have Been Waiting For. Will we now have to wait for Robert Jr. to be the sole voice of that family of bootleggers, gangsters and vote stealers?
Leave your key fool.
FLYOVERMAN #17 gets it right again. Having real term limits at all levels of our government is the obvious solution.
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It is a 6 to 8 year limit for a president. Probably should be 12 years for senators and representatives.
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The same limits should apply to state governors and state legislators.
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Some type of term limits should also apply to Supreme Court Justices and Federal Judges. I think 12 years seems about right for the judges.
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Across the board term limits would remove a lot of these abuses of our government processes. Those corruptocrats and corrupticans in power are really afraid of this. I think this is the real reason for the trashing of Sarah Palin’s run for vice president. Having new faces is a dangerous precedent for the entrenched government powers.
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John Bibb
I’m beyond term limits. I say replace Congress with a citizen legislature chosen by national lottery. The flaw with electoral Democracy is that only those most ruthlessly committed to the pursuit of power will seek it… and these are precisely the last sort of people who should have power.
If Congress had been comprised of small businessman, workers, and stay-at-home moms… I bet they wouldn’t have gone along with all the bone-headed crap the lawyers and landed gentry who populate Congress have.
Uncle Jay explains:
C Kennedy
I love Uncle Jay!
A national lottery to select Congress? That is not a bad idea! Of course, it would be the losers who had to take seats, right?
And we wouldn’t want ACORN to register people for the lottery.
One thing I credit JFK for was building up the military’s Special Forces.
He also said: “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.”
When was the last time a democrat said anything like that? They haven’t. Now they say just the opposite.
Enough with scions of the Kennedy Crime Family! There never was a “Camelot” and there never will be!
The country had met any and all of its obligations (assuaged its guilt?) to the Kennedys by tolerating the presence of the runt of the litter, Ted Kennedy.
Go back to being Mrs. Schlossberg, Caroline.
Socky,
I had been toying with the same idea for a while. Choose house representatives like we do jurors: from the voter registration lists. They can’t do any worse than the ‘professional politicians’.
It’s the same with FDR’s ‘legacy’. When you have the media, historians and teachers all wearing the same stripes, Dems’ sainthood is guaranteed.
The more I think about this, the better I like it. It would represent the return to a citizen legislature with defacto term limts and end the political class, at least in the legislative branch.
But, you know, her last name is, like, you know, Kennedy, and, you know, she, like, has to carry on her, like, family’s legacy, you know . . . .
Well said. Well reasoned. Very articulate. Why isn’t she crowned already? NOT!
On January 6th, 2009 at 2:34 pm, npphotog said:
Well said. Well reasoned. Very articulate. Why isn’t she crowned already? NOT!
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I second that NOT! And apparently, so do a lot of other people.
How is it Gov. Mr. PatHerA$$ can appoint who he wants, while Gov. Bagof$hit(?) of Ill. can’t…are they both not following the state’s constitutions replacing representatives of the their state?
Ones black and ones white, that couldn’t matter, could it?
Tre #7
She is just as qualified as our president select is:
They both consort with murderers.
Hi Uncle Teddy!
Rocketman, #75.
Good idea. Personally, I think the best way is to have the same term limits for federal, state, and local offices. You get 12 consecutive years. Once the clock starts it doesn’t stop. Period.
As an addendum, once you accept elective office, you can never hold any job that is paid from the public treasury. If you leave early, the limits still apply. Once you are elected, there’s no way out. That’s your choice for being elected.
This way, when the socialists want to increase taxes or add some burdensome regulation, the out-going socialists won’t support them. They still have to find jobs in the private sector since they can’t feed from the public trough to pay their bills.
You can’t be a lobbyist either.
No – they all float to the surface at some point…
ThackerAgency,
“They should give it to someone without a trust fund. I wouldn’t care, but they get a great pension for serving even one day in the senate. They get it for life. I would hope that there would be a more needy and qualified individual than Kennedy for this spot.”
You are mistaken. Members of Congress are subject to the same retirement system as other Federal employees. You might want to do some research before commenting next time.
http://www.opm.gov/retire/pre/fers/computation.asp
Basically, a Congresscritter must serve 5 years before getting any benefits under the FERS.
Hey as long as we’re dreaming of term limits, I’d settle for a constitutional amendment that would put in place a five year sunset clause on every single law passed by congress with the exception of tax cuts.
I agree you, FM, that’s how it should be but isn’t, as we all well know. My comment was mainly in support of the poster with whom Chap took issue, by seeming to insinuate that Patterson (although not specifically named) was elected under his own merit – I highly doubt it.
Like most states’ citizens, I’d say a majority of NY’ers didn’t even know who their Lt gov was let alone his stance on the issues facing NY, until Spitzer’s peccadilloes become public knowledge. Patterson is the beneficiary of being second on Spitzer’s ticket, not because he best represents the ideals or values of a majority of NY voters.
Sorry for the confusion.