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The Loon of the Senate

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Okay, so I have it – the moniker for “Scott.”

What do you call someone who:

1.  Swears in front of a hall full of high school kids.

2.  Offers his daughters out.

3.  Endorses a birther who compares Obama to a radical terrorist.

A loon!  Thus, the lion of the Senate is replaced by the loon of the Senate!  He’ll be the gift that keeps on giving.  

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  2. What you would have said about Ted BEFORE he had even been sworn in…

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    p>1.  Has no experience in legislature.

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    p>2.  Got expelled out of Harvard for cheating.

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    p>3.  Killed a woman.

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    p>A loon!  An absolute loon!

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    p>Why don’t you let the guy serve some time before you decide he’s not worthy to sit on the same toilet as Ted Kennedy.  

    • Had I been 57 in 1962 (when Ted Kennedy first ran for office) — I was, in fact, 10 that year — I would have voted against him in a primary had there been one (my understanding is that were none, since he ran for the seat left vacant when) for precisely the first two reasons you cite (inexperience and cheating).

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      p>I know next to nothing about the Republican candidate (George C. Lodge) in that election, and I see no evidence that the Republican party in 1962 was any more appealing than it has been in the 48 years since then. If I had voted for Ted Kennedy in the Senate election, therefore, it would have been a very reluctant vote (much as I my vote for Martha Coakley was repugnant).

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      p>The 1970 election stands out for me because I had just turned 18 and was eligible to vote because student activists like me forced the downward revision of the voting age from 21 to 18. I voted in Maryland, because that’s where I lived. I voted for Joseph Tydings, the Democrat, who was defeated by John Glenn Beall, Jr. (who served only one term).

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      p>I was appalled by Senator Kennedy’s role in Chappaquiddick and would not have voted for him had I been eligible to vote in the 1970 Massachusetts election.

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      p>I cast a “blank” in the 1976 senate election in my first Massachusetts vote. I was a strong supporter of Jimmy Carter, I didn’t like Ted Kennedy (because of Chappaquiddick), and I knew absolutely nothing about Michael S. Robertson other than that he was a Republican.

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      p>By 1982, I voted for Ted Kennedy because his opponent, Ray Shamie, was — like Scott Brown — an embarrassment and a disgrace.

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      p>In the subsequent elections, I voted for Ted Kennedy each time because each of his opponents were, well, Massachusetts Republicans. Joseph Malone was the best of them, and he was (and is) far worse (in my opinion) than Ted Kennedy.

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      p>So there you have it.

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      p>Both Ted Kennedy and Scott Brown were “loons” when they entered the senate. There is some infinitesimally small chance that Scott Brown may prove himself, over the next two years, to be more than that.

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      p>I see zero evidence of that so far.

    • …Ted Kennedy, despite his personal flaws, had two rather excellent points in his favor when he was first elected: his brother Robert, who was, at the time, the AG of the US, and his brother John, the then POTUS.  Not only were his brothers personally popular, the thinking went that Teddy, with so intimate a connection to the WH, would be much more able to bring home the bacon… which, in fact, he did.  Did you know, just as one example, that NASA mission control was originally supposed to be based in Cambridge instead of Houston? It’s true. After the assassination, LBJ had it moved to Texas and gave Cambridge some other, less prestigious federal outfit (NTSB, I think…)

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      p>The incident at Chappaquidick, where, unfortunately, a woman died, occurred well after Ted Kennedy first took office.  And, indeed, after it happened, he went on TV and asked his constituents directly if they wanted him to resign. He said that, if they did, he would.  They did not.

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      p>Also, at the time, Catholics (of whom a large percentage of the state was, and is, comprised) were not particularly well represented.  Ted Kennedy, while not being overt about it, was seen as continuing to make inroads for Catholic politicians on the national scene.

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      p>As far as I can tell Scott Brown was never expelled from Harvard for cheating, but neither does he have well placed siblings…  

  3. When feeling ill, people often make a choice. Will they see the doctor or hope things improve by doing what they’ve been doing all along? They don’t choose between doctors. They choose between the doctor and doing nothing.

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    p>So too here.

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    p>Scott Brown represents the choice of doing nothing, i.e., of stopping the large Democratic majorities in Congress from accomplishing anything. He is the choice of non-doctor. Making fun of him, proving he is a loon, etc., etc. is just beside the point.

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    p>We need to make the case for seeing the doctor to fix what’s wrong with the country.

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    p>If one wants nothing done, a loon can accomplish that just as well as anyone.

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    p>Maybe better.

      • People are fed up with the Doctor they are seeing and want a different one. He may turn out o be a great Doctor and people will be wondering why it took so long to change. Scott will be part of a group of new Doctors from around the country.

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        p>Hopefully, some of the loons who have been masquerading as DRs will be moving on to other professions. Many may quit before they get replaced.

      • That’s exactly my point: The Democrats have not convinced the electorate that they aren’t quacks.

  4. since Brown hasn’t cast any significant votes yet (or even any votes at all), it’s premature to call him the “loon of the Senate.”

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    p>I prefer to see how he represents Massachusetts first, and then make a judgment based on that. While I’m admittedly not optimistic personally, let’s see how he performs.

    • I watched him attempt to auction off his daughters in his very first nationally-televised appearance.

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      p>I watched him lie about his own legislative amendment on emergency health care for rape victims.

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      p>I watched him pause, smile, and snicker after hearing an incredibly vulgar and repulsive taunt from one of his supporters.

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      p>Perhaps, in ten, twenty, or thirty years (God help us), he might be able to shape himself into a new man, just as Ted Kennedy apparently did. That is a question for my children and grandchildren to decide.

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      p>I’ve seen all I need to see. He is, disgustingly, now my Senator. I intend to do everything I can lawfully do to ensure that this remains the case for as brief a period as possible.

  5. Let me see if I understand this correctly. The Democrats put up a lousy candidate in a special election knowing it is a sprint not a marathon. The candidate does a lousy job in general, takes time off while Mr. Brown works his ass off, and blows a 20 point lead in a state where her party controls just about everything. Now those of you on the other side, the side Marta supposedly was representing, are questioning Brown’s intellect, integrity and even taking shots at his kids.

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    p>I was thrilled with the result of this past Tuesday and have one bit of advice for those of you that probably found pleasure in Keith Olbermann’s deeply offensive rant.  Keep it up. It’s only going to make November easier.  

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