AP source: (Patrick) Kennedy won't run for re-election in RI

AP on Yahoo ^ | 2/11/10 | Andrew Miga - ap

[NormsRevenge]

WASHINGTON – A Democratic official says Rep. Patrick Kennedy has decided not to seek re-election for his seat representing Rhode Island in the U.S. Congress.

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The decision by the eight-term congressman comes less than a month after a stunning Republican upset in the race for the Massachusetts Senate seat his late father, Edward Kennedy, held for almost half a century.

[Southack]

Kennedy’s campaign is a joke...and so is his life.

[Volunteer]

"I'm rich and it's great.

I hang around Hyannis Port and wake up late.

I'm a Kennedy! Oh Yeah! I'm a Kennedy!"

My favorite song about Patches and his clan.

[demkicker]

Ditto - PK is a disaster waiting to happen. At least in one of his sobering moments, he realized his constituents are sick of the same-o mame-o liberal representation and will not re-elect him. Saving face is what's he's all about..

[Wolfstar]

The Kennedys are so over.

It took long enough, although there are still some dinosaur keepers of the phony Camelot flame around here and there.

[STARWISE]

ROFL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SUCH a hoot ... SO fabulous .... SO
indicative of their boiling FEAR !!

The Scott heard ‘round the world ... INDEED!

WOO HOO !!!

[Redbob]

"We just refer to him as the dumb one."

That's not near specific enough...

[RedMDer]

The Kennedy machine is dead.
We kicked Carpetbagger Kathleen to the curb in 2002.

[votemout]

good touche’

[Rocky]

“When elected, I did not serve. If nominated, I will not run.”

[clintonh8r]

And all the RATs thought they would be elected permanently after the 2008 elections. A plan that didn't quite come together the way the Masters of the Universe thought it would.

[Servant of the Cross]

Evidently the Kennedy clan will just quietly get into the family Oldsmobile and ride away into the sunset.

[votemout]

I was thinking that would be how his family would see him too.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Great, this’ll be just like Dodd. With a less damaged Dem, our chances of winning this seat just went to zilch. The point is to DEFEAT damaged Dems in the general.

[copwife]

Howie Carr will LOVE this and have a great time with it tomorrow!!!!

[mwl8787]

I hope it does not mean that Patrick’s mother, Joan Kennedy, is in failing health. She is one beautiful person who never deserved what she got from Ted and the rest of that family. Among many heartaches, Joan suffered a miscarriage right after Chappaquidick. She also had to help her 12 year old son through cancer and an amputation of one of his legs.

[Freddd]

Internal polling must have been really bad......

[hal ogen]

Oh, my God! What will I do now that Camelot is gone?????

[onyx]

Since you didn't, I "have" to post it!

[henbane]

Probably moving back to MA to to try to win back his Dad's seat in 2012. The Kennedy name may no longer hold the magic that it once did in Massachusetts, especially if this retard runs.

"Try to" is right on the mark.

By 2012, the young doofus will have added 2 or 3 more mind-numbing episodes of stupidity to his resume.

Meanwhile, Scott Brown's Senatorial record will have him on track to a Presidential bid after one more term in "The People's Seat."

[mcmuffin]