Posted on 09/29/2015 12:20:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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>> “it’s apparent you haven’t been here long enough to know who I support.” <<
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Yep, like he just got here on the Obama bus in the spring of ‘09...
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Years ago some friends and I occasioned a bowling alley with a crappy PA system. Whenever the front desk attendant announced an incoming call for the snack bar it sounded like he was saying, “Smegma, line one.” Chortles me to this day.
Civil, honorable, and humorous way to end a needless spat, sir.
Cruz would be a fool to identify with McCarthy while running for President. He would be even lower in single digits.
McCarthy established a bond with the powerful Kennedy family, which had high visibility among Catholics. McCarthy became a close friend of Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., himself a fervent anti-Communist, and was a frequent guest at the Kennedy compound in Hyannis Port. He dated two of Kennedy's daughters, Patricia and Eunice, and was godfather to Robert F. Kennedy's first child, Kathleen Kennedy. Robert Kennedy was chosen by McCarthy as a counsel for his investigatory committee, but resigned after six months due to disagreements with McCarthy himself and committee Counsel Roy Marcus Cohn.
Joseph Kennedy had a national network of contacts and became a vocal supporter, building McCarthy's popularity among Catholics and making sizable contributions to McCarthy's campaigns. The Kennedy patriarch hoped that one of his sons would be president. Mindful of the anti-Catholic prejudice Al Smith faced during his 1928 campaign for that office, Joseph Kennedy supported McCarthy as a national Catholic politician who might pave the way for a younger Kennedy's presidential candidacy.
Unlike many Democrats, John F. Kennedy, who served in the Senate with McCarthy from 1953 until the latter's death in 1957, never attacked McCarthy. McCarthy had refused to campaign for Kennedy's 1952 opponent, Republican incumbent Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., due to his friendship with the Kennedys. When a speaker at a February 1952 final club dinner stated that he was glad McCarthy had not attended Harvard College, an angry Kennedy jumped up, denounced the speaker, and left the event.[70] Asked by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. why he avoided criticism of McCarthy, Kennedy said, "Hell, half my voters in Massachusetts look on McCarthy as a hero."
Charles P. “Charlie” Pierce (December 28, 1953) is an American sportswriter, political blogger, author, and game show panelist.
Pierce graduated from St. John’s High School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts,[2] and from Marquette University in Journalism (1975).[3]
Pierce’s first job was as a forest ranger for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.[4] He wrote for Worcester Magazine in the 1970s, where he covered the Blizzard of 1978.[5] In the 1980s and ‘90, he was a staff reporter for the Boston Phoenix and, later, a sports columnist for the Boston Herald.
Pierce is currently the lead political blogger for Esquire, a position he has held since September 2011.[6] He also writes for ESPN’s Grantland.[7] He has also written for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe Sunday magazine, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Sports Illustrated, The National Sports Daily, GQ, and the e-zine Slate as well as the Media Matters blog Altercation, hosted by historian/pundit Eric Alterman.
I am in no place to talk, literally (Japan), but, we need to open the eyes of the voters... seems most people’s weakspot is social media (they don’t seem to pay attention to real world anymore)... take this to twitter and Facebook (a bit hypocritical on my part, since I refuse to use either).. but many here on FR do.
This real world info needs to get out to all (including, and maybe, most importantly, to the ‘LIV’).
And to think that Esquire used to be a magazine aimed at the Don Drapers of the world.
Now it’s a sniveling rag for wussy millennials still in the closet.
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