Seriously, Jeff Beatty (who, in case you’ve forgotten, is the Republican challenging John Kerry for Senate) actually said this:
If McCain did pick Romney, “I believe that we’d be able to deliver Massachusetts and its 12 electoral votes to him,” Beatty told PolitickerMA.com.
ROFLMAO!! Romney, remember, is the guy whose approval rating in MA shortly before he left office was a rollicking, Bush-like 39% — a drop of 4% from a few months earlier that year. Furthermore, even among the small cadre of MA Republicans, there is far from unanimity on the legacy of dear ol’ Mitt. Paul Cellucci and Jane Swift (no surprise there) endorsed Rudy Giuliani and John McCain, respectively, in the MA primary, and ex-Herald columnist Ginny Buckingham, for years the strongest Republican voice among the local commentariat, made national news by trashing Mitt’s candidacy for president.
Ogonowski couldn’t get his signatures. Beatty thinks MA still loves Mitt. And these are the two best statewide candidates the MA GOP can muster. A really sorry state of affairs.
I really do. It’s a one-party state, you don’t even hold the corner office anymore, and yet we still feel compelled to beat on you due to our anger and frustration with your brothers in Washington.
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p>That, and your bench is thin. I wouldn’t mind a healthy race for my state rep and senator, if only to keep the incumbents tuned in, but the (R) candidates that crop up around my area are so… marginal.
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p>Mitt will deliver MA like Edwards was supposed to carry NC. No such luck.
The Big Dig! Imagine that, a staggeringly expensive, inconveniencing, overdue, fatal mistake, and the Democrats haven’t suffered a whit from it!
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p>A halfway serious opposition party would be able to have made serious hay. Instead, the most memorable leveraging of the moment was Christy Mihos’ commercial, and he wasn’t even running as a Republican!
They ran the Executive branch for much of it. Willard, as we recall, supervised the last spectacular gasp of incompetence: the ceiling cave in.
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p>Still, I agree with your basic point. They could have done much more with the legislature’s involvement with the project.
technically john f. kerry isnt the democrat nominee…not yet.
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p>and there are a few of us who hope he wont be.
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p>so, jeff beatty is a republican candidate for senate, not john kerry’s opponent.
The US consumption economy has developed large debts through foreign countries. As of June 30th, 2007 we were in debt to foreign entities more than $9T. The following link lists those countries that hold the greatest amount of US debt.
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p>http://www.ustreas.gov/press/r…
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p>Since that was published, China has supplanted Japan as number 1, and the Cayman Islands (!) has supplanted Great Britain for number 3.
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p>The Cayman Islands! -nothing but shell corporations to wash money and avoid taxes.
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p>So are we so complacent that we would put a beneficiary of these tactics in the Administration?
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p>http://www.latimes.com/busines…
For Republican’s losing is winning. I mean that. Look how many Republican’s fail miserable at their jobs, elected offices or winning actual elections and yet are treated as successes. It’s like some bizarre party wide opposite day thing.
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p>I also wonder if their fondness for former Governor Romney is some bizarre man-crush transferal from the much cooler original inspiration for him.
And jon kerry is eating a hole in his stomach worrying about his DEMOCRATC opponent. And truth be told, I’d bet money that Kerry is gone come Nov—by republican OR democrat.
I’d even donate it to the defense fund.
And KBusch here can hold the money for us til the voting’s done on November 5.
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p>How much you gonna ante up for this carefully-typed boast, yo?
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that John F Kerry is elected US Senator from Massachusetts in November 4 2008 should he be alive on that day.
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p>Are you willing to put your money where your mouth is?
While I make a comment that has nothing to do with this diary, in an attempt to distract folks from the issue at hand.
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p>Bah. It’s getting old MCRD.
Don’t you mean that Mitt is posting a very Cadillac-like approval percentage?
Did we already forget Kerry’s lack of interest in not returning to Washington for extending unemployment for workers in 2004? I didn’t. To refresh memory, Dick Cheney cast the deciding vote. Aren’t Democrats supposed to be FOR the working man?
Remember Dems: Republicans and unenrolled outnimber you. You’re going to fall. Jeff Beatty is going to lead the way!
in days gone by.
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p>I am a strong Democrat, but in years past I voted for Ed Brooke (but not when Tsongas ran against him), Frank Hatch (who ran against Ed King), and Elliot Richardson.
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p>And I admired George Romney, a very decent man, quite unlike his son.
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p>But those were the days when the Republican party supported traditional conservative values, such as fiscal responsibility, personal responsibility, the environment, and the Bill of Rights.
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p>Unfortunately, those days are long gone.
There’s an old saying, from showbiz IIRC, the gist of which is ‘I don’t care what you say about me, just as long as you spell my name right’. Is it possible that Beatty, so weak as a candidate, and desperate for attention, any sign of awareness of him, is resorting to off the wall statements like this Romney one, just for this kind of reaction from the electorate?
Keep underestimating Jeff. Along with other non-democrats. You’re headed for a fall.
September 22.
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p>We’ll spend that fall wiping the floor with the GOP locally, in a number of senate and house races across the country, and probably the POTUS as well.
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p>I’m not just headed for a fall, I’m looking forward to it.
to siphon gop funds which otherwise might have gone to McSame. Go Jeff go!
The people who’d elected Willard Mitt Romney as governor of the Bay State realized that they’d been taken for fools and were sick of the nasty campaigning that Kerry-Healy was running. At least the people of Masachusetts woke up.
Beatty’s got other work cut out for him, if one gets the drift.