Posted on 08/27/2009 7:22:15 AM PDT by palmer
No, the Republican governor of Massachusetts is not really conceding a presidential victory for the Democratic senator from Massachusetts.
But in the bare-knuckled political landscape of Massachusetts, Gov. Mitt Romney has already been busy battling the Democrat-dominated legislature over what will happen if Senator John Kerry does win....
There is also the irony that Senator Kennedy, who urged state legislators to approve the special election bill, was himself once an indirect beneficiary of the state's appointment system. When John F. Kennedy left his Senate seat to become president in 1960, Gov. Foster Furcolo, a Democrat, appointed Benjamin Smith, a former college roommate of the president's, to fill the seat until Edward M. Kennedy could run in 1962. That prevented anyone else from making a name as a senator to compete with Mr. Kennedy.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“Also: Kennedy drove off a bridge and Kerry served in Vietnam. “
Has there been any reporting on this? Do you have a link?
Acc. to the article, Mitt was confident Bush would win so there would be no need for a special election anyway.
And speaking of Kerry (as in, the rules changed in ‘04 since Dems thought he would win), one of my fave articles ever...election night in downtown Boston “turns to tears and bitterness”
http://www.rense.com/general59/bitterness.htm
It just makes me smile. Also: I think Al Franken may have been
there, hoping to grab an interview with “President-elect Kerry”...
>>Some Kerry supporters called Bush’s platform “all lies” and heckled a group of College Republicans who were passing through the crowd.A distraught woman confronted Democratic U.S. Rep. Harold Ford in the lobby of the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel and screamed, “Can you tell me why everybody made a mistake?” Ford responded, “Let me talk to the candidate before I make a comment. It’s been a long day.”
Another woman standing near Ford began to openly weep at the prospect of a Kerry loss.
While Davis said he was “very proud of the campaign Kerry ran,” he did criticize the party’s efforts in southern states. Another man shouted to the Republicans “This is why the rest of the world calls us ignorant Americans. You obviously don’t read the newspapers or you would not believe as you do.” A woman, unhappy the Republicans were there, screamed, “someone shut up those idiots.’
I didn't realize that.
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