Posted on 09/02/2012 5:02:24 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Wed column ping
So much passion, so little promise
By Howie Carr | Wednesday, September 5, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Photo by Christopher Evans
As laughable as it seems, Gov. Deval Patrick must be running for president in 2016 the way he was trying to thread the needle last night at the Democratic National Convention.
He mentioned the word “God” twice, risky rhetoric among a group of moonbats who had just excised the dangerously radical right-wing phrase “God-given” from their America Last platform earlier in the day.
Of course, Deval did it at the very end of his speech. And only after he’d mentioned gay marriage not once, not twice, but three times.
For many years now, Deval has been Mini-Me to President Obama’s Dr. Evil. So they had to give him some consolation prize on the convention’s pro-am night. Among the other predictably PC speakers were a gay Jewish congressman whose partner’s name is Marlin; Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln “I hate Curt Schilling [stats]” Chafee; and Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, who’s so thick he thinks a straight white guy with an Irish surname has a future in this outfit.
The keynote speaker was someone named Castro — Julian, to be exact. I guess the Castro the Democrats really wanted to hear from — Fidel, or failing that, Raul — couldn’t get the ’56 DeSoto seaworthy for the trip to Key West.
Deval’s assignment was to put the blast on his predecessor as governor, Mitt Romney.
“He’s a fine fellow and a great salesman,” Deval said patronizingly. “But as governor, he was a lot more interested in having the job than doing the job.”
Takes one to know one, I guess.
Now, Deval explained, Massachusetts is “investing” in the future. We lead the nation in “energy efficiency,” whatever that is.
But Massachusetts isn’t just about gay marriage. It’s about abortion, too. It’s up to you whether you want to keep “an unwanted pregnancy.” Not for nothing is Boston known as Sodom and Begorrah.
“We place our hopes not in trickle-down fantasies but in our values.”
Just ask Carl Stanley McGee.
“What do we believe?” Deval asked, as if he didn’t know, and maybe he doesn’t. But then he answered his own question. Massachusetts is about “helping people help themselves to the American dream.”
Especially crooked House speakers. And illegal aliens and jailbirds with EBT cards and X registrations.
“It’s time for Democrats to grow a backbone and stand up for what we believe.”
More handouts for Aunt Zeituni and Uncle Omar.
“I for one will not stand by and let him be bullied out of office.”
And we know Deval means it. Because he’s a street-fightin’ man. He had an empty aluminum Coke can bounced off his noggin on the mean streets of the South Side. Bad bad Leroy Brown got nothing on Deval Patrick.
Another guy from Illinois summed this speech up perfectly. The world will little note nor long remember what Deval said. It was a lot like his book, and his career.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1061157989
Menino no ‘mordel’ speaker
By Howie Carr | Thursday, September 6, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Mumbles Menino will never let you down.
Right out of the box yesterday at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, he introduces himself to the crowd of delegates.
“I come from Boston ... where millions of students have come to study, and ‘cluding’ a great American name, Martha Luther King Jr.”
That’s what he said, Martha Luther King Jr. Any relation to BU grad Martin Luther King Jr., Mumbles? He was a Republican, you know.
Speaking of Republicans, that was Mumbles’ assignment, taking down Mitt Romney a few pegs. Even Mumbles had to admit “we worked together pretty well” — like before the 2004 Democratic convention, when Mitt and Mumbles got together to save Liveshot Kerry’s convention while he played Hamlet up in Louisburg Square. But that was then, and this is now, and it’s time to put the blast on Willard.
“His campaign’s based in Boston, a city mooing forward.”
Not moving, mooing.
Then Mumbles moved onto Romneycare.
“Gov. Romney is now running away from his major accomplishment — a health care reform he called a mordel for the nation.”
A mordel for the nation.
“He promised to bing business to the state.”
You know, bing. As in Crosby. Rhymes with ping.
What a mistake not to let Mumbles speak in prime time. How the hell did the Democrats ever expect to snag any eyeballs against the NFL opener with all the usual suspects, “activist” Sandra Fluke and somebody from Planned Parenthood, not to be confused with the woman from NARAL who spoke on Tuesday night. Can’t get enough of that good abortion talk.
Mumbles was booked into a tough slot. The delegates were in a surly mood. They’d been booing the attempt by the party leaders to put the words “God” and “Jerusalem” back into the platform. All these no-nonsense Educators for Obama and SEIU for Barack types weren’t going to put up with this Tea Party-birther nonsense about “God.” Now, if they’d wanted to put “Allah” in there ... that would have been celebrating diversity.
But then they brought on Mumbles for some comic relief.
“He disguised taxt hikes as ‘fees.’ ”
What a guy. And Joe Timilty’s former driver is still pandering to all the New Bostonians.
“In Boston you know what we call immigrants?”
Auntie Zeituni?
“You know what we call same sex couples?”
Barney and Dude?
Democrats, your ratings are down. For the love of Allah, bring Mumbles back for an encore tonight.
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1061158278
LMAO!
To all of those who admire my work: be warned. As soon as MY Rap Contract comes through, I am putting twin Webers on my '71 MGB (and naked girl mudflaps), will start smoking expensive ganja-dope and going out to drift through corners at 120 mph after getting loaded on single-malt Scotch! That is if the wire wheels can handle it.
The careless MSM reporter did inexcusably leave out a few key details:
E.G.:
The potential Nobelists were rushing to a Bible Study class.
They were late because they had stopped to drop off a hot meal for an elderly shut-in widow.
They were off to a late start because at their Nuclear Physics tutoring session they had gotten absorbed in a particularly thorny problem. Note to all MSM Reporters: Google "Trayvon," cut and paste. Note to CA Democrat Organization: too late to strike these earnest young voters from the rolls. Issue absentees.
RIP @ink2flashyy
I feel the pain
just before the big gain
But I feel the worse,
My ticker will burst,
I was on my way to the Senate
To help JaJuan Bennett
Change that handle
to somethin' less trashy.
BTW forward my post to Mumbles. I could write for that guy!
Someone will probably vote for The One in their name. They prob don’t check IDs.
Fri col. ping
Tim’s crash course in futility
By Howie Carr | Friday, September 7, 2012 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Photo by Angela Rowlings
Lt. Gov. Crash Murray said in Charlotte yesterday that he is “seriously considering” a run for governor in 2014?
In what state? Surely not Massachusetts.
Did someone ask him to recite the alphabet backward after he made his statement?
Murray must be suffering short-term memory loss. Just the other day he was answering questions for the feds about his chief political operative, the very ethical Mike McLaughlin. McLaughlin is in a photo finish with one, maybe two grand juries. Murray and McLaughlin talked by cell phone over 200 times in the two years before “the troubles.”
Anybody facing that kind of jeopardy shouldn’t be looking for a campaign manager, he should be looking for a big rock, to hide under.
Instead Crash Murray paints an even bigger target for the feds on his backside. What a dolt. It’s amazing it only took him three tries to pass the bar exam.
“I’ve learned a lot working alongside Gov. Patrick. Seen a lot.”
Before you know it, he’ll be saying he’s being “urged” to run.
And I’ll bet he is. Mainly by prosecutors at the U.S. attorney’s office, and also by Mike McLaughlin’s lawyers. A plea bargain to rat out a guy who’s running for governor, no matter how hopeless his campaign, is worth a lot more than delivering the head of a lame-duck ex-Worcester city councilor.
“Obviously it’s something that I’m going to consider and look at seriously.”
At first I thought he was talking about becoming a CW — a cooperating witness.
If Murray really means to run, this could save Mike McLaughlin five years. Unless, of course, you think Mike’s a stand-up guy. He’s 68, so you figure the odds.
Let’s review. Murray crashed his state Crown Vic at 5:20 a.m. last November, 20 miles from home, after which he gave three or four conflicting stories about what happened. He was clad in pajamas and he was going 108 mph at the time of the crash. He has since stonewalled release of his state cellphone records, to prevent disclosure of who he was talking to that morning (he claims nobody, but still won’t turn over the bills).
And then of course there’s McLaughlin, who was paying himself $398,000 to run the Chelsea Housing Authority, where he worked a full 15 days last year.
Now, consider what the Republican Governors Association did to then-Treasurer Tim Cahill in the run-up to the 2010 election. They basically had nothing on Cahill, and yet he was fricasseed. What do you suppose could be done to Crash Murray, by either a Democrat or a Republican?
Article URL: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1061158521
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