Curt Schilling

[Boxlicker101]

According to this, future Hall of Fame baseball player Curt Schilling is considering running for the vacant Senate seat from MA. He just might win. True, he isn't qualified, but the only qualification Teddy had at the time of his election was his name. Curt Schillinlg probably has as much name recognition.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090903/ap_on_re_us/us_kennedy_successor_schilling_16

 

[driphoney]

Curt Who?

(What am I doing on a political thread? )

[running out fast, slamming the door!]

 

[Dragonlipz]

I doubt that Kurt has the stuff upstairs to play 'hardball' in Washington. Teddy obviously did for nearly 50 years.......Good luck, Kurt.....
(BTW) - I was with my young nephew who recognized Kurt in a hotel and tried to chase him down for an autograph...Kurt got away from his fans by ducking into an elevator....Kurt, if he runs, won't be able to hide from the voters like he does from his fans.......I met Teddy once and he was affable and pleasant, even after he found out I wasn't Irish or a resident of Boston......he was a classy guy......

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

As a great baseball player, Shilling has more experience than that guy in the Whitehouse. Why not just give him the seat in the Senate.

 

[Boxlicker101]

I doubt that Kurt has the stuff upstairs to play 'hardball' in Washington. Teddy obviously did for nearly 50 years.......Good luck, Kurt.....
(BTW) - I was with my young nephew who recognized Kurt in a hotel and tried to chase him down for an autograph...Kurt got away from his fans by ducking into an elevator....Kurt, if he runs, won't be able to hide from the voters like he does from his fans.......I met Teddy once and he was affable and pleasant, even after he found out I wasn't Irish or a resident of Boston......he was a classy guy......

Maybe he does, and maybe he doesn't, but EMK didn't have much upstairs either. He was no better than an average student, and got kicked out of Harvard for cheating on an exam. Later he was readmitted, and he did graduate, and even graduated from law school later.

Please don't try to pretend that pols never try to avoid voters.

 

[TE999]

I hope he's elected for no other reason than to throw a beanball at Nancy Pelosi. Christ, that woman's annoying. Her voice sounds like a ripsaw cutting thru a gunnysack full of tin cans. How in Hell she ever became Speaker of the House is beyond me.

 

[Jenny_Jackson]

I hope he's elected for no other reason than to throw a beanball at Nancy Pelosi. Christ, that woman's annoying. Her voice sounds like a ripsaw cutting thru a gunnysack full of tin cans. How in Hell she ever became Speaker of the House is beyond me.

Yeah, she is. I think it's funny that she got into it publicly with Dick Chaney and the CIA over whether or not she was informed of the torture going on in Iraq. Then she went into hiding for three weeks. What a lying bitch.

 

[sr71plt]

Maybe he does, and maybe he doesn't, but EMK didn't have much upstairs either. He was no better than an average student, and got kicked out of Harvard for cheating on an exam. Later he was readmitted, and he did graduate, and even graduated from law school later.

Ted K. took highest honors for debate at law school too, which certifies him as a good talker (and surprised the hell out of his professors, according to a recent article in the local paper).

 

[Boxlicker101]

Ted K. took highest honors for debate at law school too, which certifies him as a good talker (and surprised the hell out of his professors, according to a recent article in the local paper).

Of course he's a good talker. A successful pol has to be that. They don't need any other qualities, but they have to be able to talk well.

 

[trysail]

It will come as no surprise that for a sizeable segment of the population, Teddy-boy was the incarnation of everything that is reprehensible in demagoguery.

Teddy-boy defined the phrases "hypocrite" and "limousine liberal." His popularity was purchased— not with the ill-gotten fortune of his bootlegging, philandering, appeasing, swindler of a father— but with the tax burden he imposed on others.

Hypocrisy? How many Kennedys attended public schools? If he had been anywhere near the spendthrift he was with the public's money with his family money, the Kennedys would have been reduced to paupery. No, he wasn't THAT dumb! He was careful to use other people's money.

Like many rich people, he enjoyed occasional ( controlled ) exposure to p'oh folk; the forays served two purposes: (1) he enjoyed that feeling of superiority that only comes from briefly mingling with the great unwashed and (2) they perpetuated the carefully contrived and nurtured myth that he was a man of the people. Yeah, he was a real "man of the people" ( behind protective walls ). And— it almost goes without saying ( but not quite )— the bullying, arrogant jerk got away with shit for which the average person would have been thrown in jail.

Ask Joan.

 

[DesertPirate]

Yeah, she is. I think it's funny that she got into it publicly with Dick Chaney and the CIA over whether or not she was informed of the torture going on in Iraq. Then she went into hiding for three weeks. What a lying bitch.

That's the nicest thing anyone has said about her in a long time.
She deserves all of it.

How about the fact that either Republican running against Reid in Nevada will beat him in the latest polls?