Comments on: Update IX: Massachusetts Musical Chairs (Brown WINS; Dems Blame…) https://barelyablog.com/massachusetts-musical-chairs/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/massachusetts-musical-chairs/comment-page-1/#comment-8788 Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:06:10 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=20171#comment-8788 Olby was ranting that Scott Brown said it is not NATURAL for 2 women to have children, thus making him HOMOPHOBIC! Huh! Am I stupid? Did biology change? Can two women naturally have children. What a freaking idiot Olberman is.

Well, the so-called Swing Voters have been swinging back and forth against whichever party is in power as we slide down the fiscal toilet. So the Democrats rode the trend in 06 and 08 and now it is Scott Brown. The deck chairs on the Financial Titanic are being rearranged – but the sad part is that the statists beat the libertarian by 99:1. Coaklely was especially obnoxious and ran a bad campaign and the working class Catholics who voted for every Kennedy due to family loyalty (that goes back 100 years to Honey Fitz) abandoned her.

The fickle Swing Voters are exercising CROOK ROTATION – sort of a political version of crop rotation. They are worried about Obama printing a trillion phony dollars to Obamacare instead of spending the phony dollars on Medicare! Romneycare Brown will “save” Medicare! However, we are still sliding into a statist abyss.

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By: Gringo Malo https://barelyablog.com/massachusetts-musical-chairs/comment-page-1/#comment-8764 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:31:16 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=20171#comment-8764 Gee! I really hate to rain on anybody’s parade, but you’ll never elect a principled limited government. Voters might have rejected Obama’s Soviet-style health care program, but they still want the old-fashioned, glad-handing, free goodies for everyone, never mind who’s paying for it, American kind of socialism orignally sold to them in the 1930s. To abolish socialism and restore limited government, you’d need to restrict the franchise to white male property owners. That would require considerable force and violence. I don’t see it happening until our present government has collapsed of its own weight.

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By: haym https://barelyablog.com/massachusetts-musical-chairs/comment-page-1/#comment-8763 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:33:37 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=20171#comment-8763 I also has some uneasy moments during Brown’s acceptance speech: (1) basketball with the Prez, (2) hawking his beautiful daughters, (3) too much joking around – to the point of looking unserious. After all, he is going to DC to overturn a tyranny, not go brie tasting!

And Olby turns my stomach – but it is really unfair to the aardvark community to compare them to him. I would bet that they are generally more intelligent than the average newscaster at MSNBC, and I believe that all of them are better at deciding from which end to eat and which end to … well, you get the idea.

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By: Robert Glisson https://barelyablog.com/massachusetts-musical-chairs/comment-page-1/#comment-8762 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:38:40 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=20171#comment-8762 This just hasn’t been Olby’s week has it.

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By: Stephen Hayes https://barelyablog.com/massachusetts-musical-chairs/comment-page-1/#comment-8759 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:20:11 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=20171#comment-8759 As the saying goes: Today is the day in Massachusetts. Which martin or marion will take the nod today? It matters in the short run right now, but what of the long? I don’t know. I’ve long since given up on the GOP. I’d rather vote for my losers than the losers who keep winning. Is it futile to vote for the third party guy who tells the truth? I don’t think it’s ever futile to stand with the truth. The status quo is the real futility.

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By: james huggins https://barelyablog.com/massachusetts-musical-chairs/comment-page-1/#comment-8756 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:51:09 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=20171#comment-8756 To Greenhell: Points well taken, but we’ve got to start somewhere. Getting a principled, limited government from Republicans is a tall order indeed. Getting it from the Democrats is impossible. Back during the depression my grandfather in Mississippi, who never voted for Roosevelt, warned that when control of the Democratic party moved to the northern states the country would go to hell. They did and it did.

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By: haym https://barelyablog.com/massachusetts-musical-chairs/comment-page-1/#comment-8754 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:31:55 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=20171#comment-8754 I could vote for Joe Kennedy in principle – he would be my first choice – but he cannot win this election. He should be encouraged and supported, but in any election I vote for the person who is closest to my ideals who also has a chance of winning. Otherwise, I feel, I could be helping a worse candidate into office. And yes, the Republicans and Democrats are 6 of one and a half dozen of the other in the aggregate, but the mix is different. In this kind of situation, not allowing either party total control should be the immediate goal. And we should cultivate candidates like Kennedy to the point where they have a chance at winning.

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By: Roy Bleckert https://barelyablog.com/massachusetts-musical-chairs/comment-page-1/#comment-8753 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:29:09 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=20171#comment-8753 Joe Kennedy would have been the best choice,too bad he did not catch fire.

Brown is probably the best you can get out of Ma., at this time.

The next race peeps should focus on is the Tx. Gov. race

Debra Medina is a rock solid Constitution/Liberty candidate & I think she will pass the Myron test as a Ron Paul like candidate, check her out MP

http://www.medinafortexas.com/

She also got invited to the second debate & went from 4% to 12% in a week

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/01/our-story-on-the-inclusion-of.html

She cleaned the clocks of gov. good hair & ms. hyphenated in the fist debate, you can watch it here

http://www.texasdebates.org/

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By: Myron Pauli https://barelyablog.com/massachusetts-musical-chairs/comment-page-1/#comment-8750 Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:39:01 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=20171#comment-8750 With elephants and donkeys tromping on our liberties and property, one feels like Poland with Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia chomping over their next meal. Typically, one expects Democrats to be a bit worse on the pocketbook than Republicans but perhaps a little better on civil liberties. However, Martha Coakley is the Democrats’ version of John “torture memo” Yoo:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31413.html

http://online.wsj.com/…/SB10001424052748704281204575003341640657862. html

http://www.riehlworldview.com/…/the-details-coakley-amirault-woodward-and- souza.html

The Cheneys and Yoos are just zealots willing to shred civil liberties to “get” apparently GUILTY people but Martha Coakley gleefully shreds civil liberties to railroad the INNOCENT. Not only rightists but also libertarians and leftists are alarmed by her complete lack of ethics.

In comparison, Brown is merely an unprincipled statist hack of the Romney – Lindsey Graham variety. I’d probably still vote for Joe Kennedy given that there is actually a good person running against these two statists. Nevertheless, there will be more of a silver lining if Brown beats Coakley than if Brown defeated a less obnoxious democrat like Jim Webb (whom I supported over George Macaca Allen).

Still, in the long haul, we need politicians like Joe L (for libertarian) Kennedy and not hacks like Brown.

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By: ~greenhell~ https://barelyablog.com/massachusetts-musical-chairs/comment-page-1/#comment-8749 Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:17:08 +0000 http://barelyablog.com/?p=20171#comment-8749 James, your comment that “the only thing we need to know is are they for or against the Democrat horde” appeals to a lot of voters and that is unfortunate. Voting against something will not bring about the change you seek. Why vote for Republicans running on slowing the rate of growth of the government? It will never result in the return of a principled, limited government. The Republicans can’t even seek to compromise on ideals, because they are only parroting the ideals of the Democrats, just at different volumes.

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