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Kennedy 2024! (blue states only)
Growing up in Massachusetts, all you would hear were the older people talk about how great the Kennedys are. Rose did this, Jackie is so beautiful, John Jr. did that. It got annoying. I said I would never vote for a Kennedy for dog catcher, yet here I am.
I have only spoken to one of them in my life. I was working at Nestle’s in Arkansas, programming a machine to spit a blob of cheese into a Stouffer’s Five Cheese Lasagna. Surprisingly my machine was the only automation they had other than the conveyor belt. They had a line of cafeteria ladies with smocks and hair nets weighing and dishing out pasta and sauce. Also, I have to say it was immaculately clean — everything gets sterilized between shifts.
The Kennedy guy was a process engineer. He reluctantly never said his last name and I picked up on it. Later he said it was because I had a wicked bad accent, but I don’t think I do. “So, you’re a Kennedy from Massachusetts. One of those Kennedys?” He said yes, but don’t judge me based on my family. I didn’t think such a person existed. Then again, he pre-judged me too.
You wouldn’t think so, but Democrats are not even close to the majority voters of in Massachusetts.
4.9M total registered voters
1.3M Democrats
0.4M Republicans
3.1M Unenrolled
0.1M Weirdos
For as long as I have been voting, the liberals have gloated about taking Republican ballots in the primaries and spoiling elections. You can do that in MA. This is a significant problem, especially in my district. We have had a Republican representative for many years now and we just switched our state senate seat from Democratic to Republican, too. This is despite the election interference.
Recently I have begun to ask myself, is it really interference? The system has been rigged that way for that specific reason and it’s a legal way to vote. Dem-da-rules. I have been tempted to take the other ballot and muck things up, but I have always just done the right thing. Maybe the right thing is to spoil Biden’s electoral count. Given the huge unenrolled majority in this state, we would never vote for Trump, EVER! But…I would love to give RFK our 11 Electoral College votes.
A couple deep-blue states voting for Kennedy, Trump wins.
While looking up numbers, I came upon this Politico story. Follow the money if you want to know what people are thinking. It says a lot. First, he is a Democrat no matter what anyone says. But he has more large Republican donors than Democratic. Second, the large donors without a history outnumber both Democratic and Republican large donors combined. But the small-dollar donations indicate very strong independent support.
I have always told people every vote matters. It matters if you vote for your guy. It matters if you vote for the other guy. It matters if you cross party lines. And it especially matters if you ride this one out. They are all legitimate votes, and you have to pick one. You can’t not vote if you’re registered.
By the way, if you’re not in a deep blue state please don’t vote for Kennedy, it wasn’t meant for everybody. (Edit: I added blue states only, I was being sarcastic.)
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Love your photo caption.
They have a wierdo box to check when you register?
It is Massachusetts. We have sub-categories.
Maybe not DECLARED Democrats, but that doesn’t really matter.
Agree with that. But, if the dog barks on the left the heard goes to the right.
You mention 1.3m Dems and 0.1m wierdos. What about the other 1.2m Dems?
My mother was in grade school with Ted. She never thought much of him then and for her he didn’t improve with age.
What about UNDECLARED weirdos???🤔
I promised myself to not bring up big-head-ted and RIP Marry-Jo until comment 50+. It was with great restraint.
That’s a big net buddy. I understand them as much as you. Think of me as an interrupter. Just don’t kill the messenger.
I always enjoyed reading those stories about Ted that ended with “Mary Jo Kopechne was not available for comment.”
My brother ran a ski shop at a New Hampshire ski resort in the 70’s. He despised the behavior of the Kennedy kids and once had Ethel come in and beg him to let one of the kids back in after my brother had banned him from the shop. That’s how I learned about the weird thing that kids from big money families think they shouldn’t have to pay for anything. Whatever you think of that family, you don’t hate them enough.
How a voter declares their party affiliation can be meaningless.
For a long time, one of us would declare to be a Dem, and the other a Republican. That way we could get information from both sides.
Of course that was a while before the Dems became all looney tunes all the time.
When I used to do phone campaigning for various local candidates, it did seem that other households employed the same strategy.
BTW Tim Mellon – who has donated great gobs of money to Trump – has also been donating to RFK Jr.
I live in Michigan and plan to vote for whoever is most likely to deny Biden Michigan’s. electoral votes. Would prefer if I could just subtract one vote from Biden and not vote FOR anyone.
Massachusetts people love politics. There was a commentator-talk show host in the Boston radio market, Michael Graham, who moved here from South Carolina. He was really funny. One day, he said, paraphrasing from memory, “My friends in South Carolina think I’m crazy to live here, in such a Democratic Party state. But I tell them that I can have a better conversation-argument in any bar in Boston than I can have in South Carolina. I love it!” Too funny.
But people do feel strongly about some things, and those arguments can get pretty heated. The worst issue I have seen come up in the state was over gay adoption. The state came close to exploding. :)
The state went for McGovern and was the only state to do so in the entire country. Then in the Clinton-Bush-Perot race in 1992, Bush lost the state: 29.03 percent voted for Bush, and 22.80 percent voted for Perot. If the Perot votes had gone to Bush, Bush would have won the state. It would have been Bush, 51.83 percent, Clinton, 47.54 percent. Sometimes we are just argumentative. :)
I have mentioned this in previous conversations but the Catholic Church I attended as a kid was St Patrick’s in Portland, ME. Built in the mid 60’s it had Kennedy stained glass windows.
It never seemed unusual to me until I was back visiting about 20 years ago and realized how strange it looks from this century. Kennedy worship. The church was sold and demolished some years back.
Ayup
He is a silent Ricochetti. He first introduced me to this site (on the air) when it was new. I checked it out but it never took. I was never a member. So when a friend mentioned it to me a couple years ago I had to come back. Graham was really funny. We got into an emailing argument over why Jameson was better than Bushmills. That argument has implications way beyond whiskey.
I was working at Oak Bluffs on the Vineyard for 3-4 days. The first couple days I had almost no cell signal. One day I got there and I had five bars. I asked the water operator why I suddenly had signal. Was a tower down? He said no, that means one of the Kennedys are on the island. That’s the only time Verizon will boost it.
Related: Many of the obnoxious “Climate Extinction” and “Free Gaza” activists are from wealthy families. Sometimes referred to as the Activist Wanker Class.
Trustafarians.
I had to look that one up. Ha, you got me.
Wow, that is weird. Is that an angel in the upper right bowing down before Kennedy? And is that little RFK Jr in one of the seats in the left-hand panel?
Crazy, right? I think it’s JFK and Bobby side by side on the right. I tried to find out what happened to the stained glass when the church was demolished but no mention anyplace.
Yeah, I figured that was Bobby, too. I don’t imagine they would have destroyed the glass. I don’t know who’d want it or how it would be stored. My only guess is that it’s part of a shrine in someone’s home.
That’s no odder than the poster of Chicago mayor Harold Washington ascending into Heaven accompanied by angels.
It may be somewhat odder. Does the poster show the angels worshipping Washington?
I did some more recent searching and former parishioners are saying the Kennedy windows are in the basement of St Joseph’s church, an older adjacent parish where a lot of the St Pat’s parishioners went after it was torn down.
In the basement, eh?
Have people learned nothing from Prince Of Darkness?
The basement is where EVIL is stored!
Yes, the stained glass subject is crazy. But that art work is beautiful. I think the artist has been working with lead too long.
Seems like the same fate as the clan’s Catholicism