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Howie throws in the towel

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Howie Carr has pretty much given up hope that next Tuesday will look anything like what he wants it to look like.  He’s apparently concluded that Kerry Healey can’t win, and that the last, best hope of the Mass. GOP is to encourage voters to support down-ballot Republicans like state rep and governor’s councillor candidates that no one’s ever heard of.

It was Saturday, and I was at the Paper Store in West Roxbury signing copies of my book, when in walks a damp Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey. She was early for a scheduled rally around the corner. So she grabs a hardcover and hands it to me. I ask her what inscription she wants on the title page.  “I think it’ll have to be ‘To Muffy,’ ” she said. “That’s the way I’ll always remember you.”

Remember me? Is one of us leaving town, Kerry?

Sure, it was just a momentary lapse in the public facade of confidence all pols have to maintain, no matter how bleak the polls. But the reality is, someone may be leaving town next Tuesday, and it looks like it’s the state Republican Party.  The Massachusetts GOP has had a number of near-death experiences in recent years, but this time it really looks like the next stop could be Whig-ville, or maybe Federalist Junction.  It’s a bad sign when the Green-Rainbow party has more statewide candidates on the ballot than the Republicans….

The problem is, next Tuesday could be one of those tidal waves, like 1990…. This could be one of those years. And that’s why it’s important to preserve at least some vestige of an opposition that can perhaps one day rise from the ashes….

Wherever you live, think about throwing some votes to these guys.

All together now:  awwwwwwww.

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  1. Maybe up in Slumerville, you haven’t heard of the candidates, but DOWN HERE they are doing GREAT!

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    I was at the Orleans book signing, and all of them were there with literature, as anybody buying Howie’s book is a GREAT prospect!  A couple of others he missed, too!

    • …because come next week the Mass GOP is going to be shut out of every statewide office, every Congressional seat and 87% of the Legislature.  Hmm, come to think of it, you’re right.  That IS Great!

          • I was under the impression that that particular scandal broke in hearings held by the House Banking Committee.  If the Congress were fully under the control of a single party to the same extent that our Great and General Court is, how likely do you suppose it would have been that there would not have been any hearing?

            • Last I checked, John McCain and John Glenn were in different parties.  Both were members of this particular corrupt crew.  Corruption is not unique to one party, nor to one-party states.

              • that if the entire machinery of government was in the hands of one party, there would have been no hearings, and the scandal would not have broken.

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                When there is no effective opposition, hearings are little more than self-serving theater.  Witness namy of the Congressional hearings held since 2000.

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                Single-party rule is simply corrosive of honest and effective governance.  Without some effective check, we risk kleptocracy.  One hopes that Mr. Patrick can operate as an effective check on the Legislature, or at least a more effective check than a powerless Romney, but I suspect that this may be a forlorn hope.

    • I mean poor fat-face-using-his-high-school-yearbook-photo-next-to-his-Herald-byline.  Maybe Sherry Muffy Healey and fatass can swan off into the sunset together.  I would totally vote for that.  A lot.

  2. So now Massachusetts won’t have divided government. So the same thing that happened at the federal level will now happen here.

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    There will be no accountability, no scrutiny, no checks and balances, and spending and taxes will skyrocket.

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    Don’t be surprised if Deval Patrick gathers the Massachusetts National Guard and invades another state to grab its oil revenues.

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    Look out. Duck.

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    Thomas Jefferson
    Lowell, MA

    • And the jail doors will be thrown open and all rapists and cop killers will be given toll collecter jobs on the Pike and the income tax rate will be 53%.

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      Did I miss any talking points?

    • Thomas:

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      I am not sure if you live in Lowell but you keep espousing the editorial line of our local newspaper, so I am assuming that you at least read our local paper.

      • I read the Lowell Sun, but I definitely do not agree with their general editorial stance.

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        And why would I say if I am from Lowell, if I am not?

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        What I am, however, is very concerned about Patrick and his desire to take my paycheck away from me. He will have the legislature in his pocket, so there will be nothing to stop him.

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        The lazy and poor have enough money. The teachers are OVERPAID. The schools are overbuilt. The elderly have more money, on average, than the rest of the population.

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        We must stop spending so much on those who don’t deserve it.

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        The poor receive too much welfare. Newt Gingrich was right, put their kids in orphanages so they can’t have babies every five years just to get their own great subsidized apartment.

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        Even the homeless have great accommodations. 

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        Thomas Jefferson
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        • Thanks for covering the homeless and the poor, I forgot those talking points. Also, thanks for letting us know about something that Deval “desires” to do that he has never publicly said he would do. Do you guys talk every day, or just every few days?

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          But dude, your slipping…You totally forgot the ILLEGALS! They’ll have licences and welfare and keys to your house to come in and take your dinner and silver! You’ll be mandated by law to take them to the movies on Sundays!

        • [I am] very concerned about Patrick and his desire to take my paycheck away from me.

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          I’ve never heard him express such a desire. Can you tell me when and where he told you that he wanted your paycheck? And is it just you he’s singling out, or does he want everybody’s paycheck? Cause that would just be greedy…

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          The lazy and poor have enough money.

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          You don’t actually know the definition of “poor”, do you?

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          The teachers are OVERPAID.

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          Spoken like a person without any children.

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          The elderly have more money, on average, than the rest of the population.

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          I’d be very interested in statistics to this effect. And how you balance this fact (if fact it is) with the corresponding fact that they typically have very low fixed incomes. It’s possible that, on average they may have more savings stored up, but if you really expect them to live on it, that won’t be true for very long.

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          We must stop spending so much on those who don’t deserve it.

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          I’d agree, except we clearly disagree on who “those” people are.

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          Even the homeless have great accommodations.

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          Here, I do in fact totally agree. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve looked longingly at a hot street grate in the dead of winter, thinking of how I’d love to just curl up on top of it and go to sleep. Or rummage through a garbage can for a quick snack. The only thing holding me back is that my wife would kill me. Ah, if only… in another life, maybe, I’ll get to experience such luxury.

      • Comments which were here from both sides have been sent to the Memory Hole.  This is wrong. I know mine was not offensive and should stand and I know there were others as well.

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        Knock Hub Politics, but this nonsense is no better. Let it all stand on it’s own merit or lack thereof, unless it is TRULY worthy of deletion.

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        I’m very disappointed in BMG.

        • BMG opposes free speech. They are nothing more than a propaganda machine for the unthinking, non-objective radical left. If they don’t agree with an argument, then they don’t want anyone else to hear it.

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          I will never read this site again and am deleting it from my bookmark.

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          I am so impressed with those Harvard boys.

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          Thomas Jefferson
          Lowell, MA

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