WRKO's DePetro and Carr Hear The Fat Lady Singing !

[Casablanca]

With the release today of the Channel 7/Suffolk University Poll which shows Deval Patrick increasing his lead over Kerry Healey to 27% and her unfavorables rising both John DePetro and Howie Carr are admitting they hear the fat lady singing.

 

[Varulven]

thank you for the update. I've got Ed Schultz on the radio and David Bowie: Under Review 1976-1979 in the computer (listening to multiple media a la The Man Who Fell To Earth).

Casablanca, you do realize that if you stopped listening to WRKO they wouldn't have ANY listeners!

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

With the release today of the Channel 7/Suffolk University Poll which shows Deval Patrick increasing his lead over Kerry Healey to 27% and her unfavorables rising both John DePetro and Howie Carr are admitting they hear the fat lady singing.

The article in this AM's Herald, in which Muffy Dilletante admitted that her campaign supplied the orange jump suits and signs for the "Convicts for Deval Patrick" demonstrations outside his home and campaign office, was probably the final straw. The electorate has also seen through the obvious and transparent ploy about the Turnpike tolls. She plainly overdid it, and she's going to pay a very high price.

 

[kjlassoc]

Not to mention the fact that Romney clearly wants her to lose. I wonder what he has on her that keeps her from venting against her soon-to-be ex-boss?

 

[Casablanca]

thank you for the update. I've got Ed Schultz on the radio and David Bowie: Under Review 1976-1979 in the computer (listening to multiple media a la The Man Who Fell To Earth).

Casablanca, you do realize that if you stopped listening to WRKO they wouldn't have ANY listeners!

It's a tough job but someone's got to do it

 

[raccoonradio]

Haven't heard Howie's show yet--I was showing a friend of mine from Ohio around Boston (but taped HC's show on my comp and transferred to my mp3 player to hear later (right now, World Series time)...

You never know about polls...one thing's for sure, though: Kerry is going to lose.

Oh wait...I wasn't talking about 11/7/06--I was having a flash back to 11/2/04, and the other Kerry...

"Kerry Campaign Party Turns to Tears and Bitterness" --CNS News, 11/3/04:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=\Politics\archive\200411\POL20041103d.html

>>A distraught woman confronted Democratic U.S. Rep. Harold Ford in the lobby of the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel and screamed, "Can you tell me why everybody made a mistake?" Ford responded, "Let me talk to the candidate before I make a comment. It's been a long day."

Grey Davis, who had predicted a Kerry victory that night: "I, like many people saw the exit polls, which saw Kerry ahead in every battleground state."

 

[chitchatjf]

With the release today of the Channel 7/Suffolk University Poll which shows Deval Patrick increasing his lead over Kerry Healey to 27% and her unfavorables rising both John DePetro and Howie Carr are admitting they hear the fat lady singing.

The article in this AM's Herald, in which Muffy Dilletante admitted that her campaign supplied the orange jump suits and signs for the "Convicts for Deval Patrick" demonstrations outside his home and campaign office, was probably the final straw. The electorate has also seen through the obvious and transparent ploy about the Turnpike tolls. She plainly overdid it, and she's going to pay a very high price.

That probably didn't help but if people truly knew the issues and what may be at stake, Kerry would win.

 

[dumber than a box of hair]

That probably didn't help but if people truly knew the issues and what may be at stake, Kerry would win.

No, she wouldn't. Just taking a look at her web site demonstrates quite adequately that her proposals would raise taxes just as much as Deval Patrick's proposals would. Also, she has just as much in her record to answer for as Patrick does. Her public arrogance (does she really think we're going to swallow "we both come from modest means" when the entire planet knows how rich she is?) and her mistaken belief that she would do better in a one-on-one debate with Patrick, when it's been Patrick that got the better of her twice, has shown most that she's utterly clueless.

Like so many candidates, she also failed to learn from history. The last famous politician to publically attack the right to counsel was Joseph McCarthy, and after having his head handed to him on national television (by a Boston lawyer, no less), his support during a Republican administration vanished. So what does Muffy do? Make the same mistake. Fortunately, there are at least some people around here with long memories and a modicum of disgust with those who would attack one of the oldest of our constitutional rights.

 

[Varulven]

Dumber/Hair, good essay.

To: kjlassoc

You have a very good point; wasn't sure that Mitt wanted her to lose, but now it seems certain.

Here's what is wrong with that equation: isn't Romney better off if she's in? Or does he think the
bad things they did (failing to inspect The Big Dig) will come back to haunt him harder if Healey is
there as a not-so-subtle reminder. I do not know, which is why I'm asking...

 

[Mickey37]

WRKO has Casablanca on their promotions payroll, they have to, or else he's got this real scary obsession.

 

[Mickey37]

The next debate (Wednesday night, WBZ Radio and television) should be interesting. Healy is going to throw everything at Patrick, to see if anything sticks to him. Patrick will tell voters that Healey has no plan, can only attack him. Mihos will tell voters both frontrunners are bought by special interests, and Grace Ross will say something that makes total sense, more rational than any of the others, but no one will pay attention because there's no way a Green-Rainbow candidate can be worthy of my vote, is there (I say this with tongue firmly in cheek)?

 

[Casablanca]

That probably didn't help but if people truly knew the issues and what may be at stake, Kerry would win.

No, she wouldn't. Just taking a look at her web site demonstrates quite adequately that her proposals would raise taxes just as much as Deval Patrick's proposals would. Also, she has just as much in her record to answer for as Patrick does. Her public arrogance (does she really think we're going to swallow "we both come from modest means" when the entire planet knows how rich she is?) and her mistaken belief that she would do better in a one-on-one debate with Patrick, when it's been Patrick that got the better of her twice, has shown most that she's utterly clueless.

Like so many candidates, she also failed to learn from history. The last famous politician to publically attack the right to counsel was Joseph McCarthy, and after having his head handed to him on national television (by a Boston lawyer, no less), his support during a Republican administration vanished. So what does Muffy do? Make the same mistake. Fortunately, there are at least some people around here with long memories and a modicum of disgust with those who would attack one of the oldest of our constitutional rights.

Whether one is a supporter of Deval Patrick or not every decent citizen should be outraged by the scurrilous treatment his sister received in the pages of the tabloid newspaper, The Boston Herald. In effect, she was raped again in the pages of that newspaper.

It brings to mind the admonition of that great Boston lawyer Joseph N.Welch during the infamous Army-McCarthy hearings of the 1950's.

Welch, in his quiet, reserved and dignified manner turned to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R) Wisconsin and said,

"Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness... Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"

That same admonition as to the cruelty, recklessness and no sense of decency must apply to that tabloid newspaper's owner and any editor or staff writer whose fingerprints cover that alleged story. This entire episode gives new meaning to the moniker ink stained wretch.

As to candidate Kerry Healey's part, I fear she protesteth too little. Kerry Healey should have conducted a press conference before the ink was dry on the first edition of that newspaper to condemn the assault on Deval Patrick's sister. She did not do that until the stench of the story permeated every fiber of this campaign. Had she condemned this story with the same anger which Deval Patrick justifiably exhibited in defense of his sister Kerry Healey would have risen to a stature that would have nearly insured her election. Sadly, that was not the case.

 

[Varulven]

Casablanca, this is the writing style of yours I appreciate best.

Remember the John Grisham story "A Time To Kill"
http://imdb.com/title/tt0117913/

where the psychiatrist was leveled on the stand, though they were talking about
consenual sex with his own wife! That is exactly what Kerry Healey did to
Deval Patrick's sister. It is as sinister as Bush sending thousands of boys and girls
to get maimed and killed in Iraq for his 8 football field long "embassy" and an attempt
to control the oil of that country.

I have no problem with putting Saddam on trial for his sins - though he would've
been better off maintaining stability in the region; BUT, if you're going to do that,
put Bush on trial for an illegal war. Can we put Kerry Healey on trial for going beyond all
that is proper?

She dipped into a family situation where she had no place. Why? Because the
couple are still married and have kids that had to put up with this attack.

Why the attack? Because Kerry Healey is not competent to be Governess,
Romney doesn't even like her, and the Republican history of taking over our
state only to use it as a platform for other things and slipping in their Lt. Governors
to take over has to end. Hey, I'm all for checks and balances. It is my belief
that in this extreme situation having a Democrat as Governor will be that
"checks and balances". Massachusetts under one party will work much, much
better than Washington under one party.

 

[pele kiki bobo]

So, will the Patrick administration's policies continue to cause the exodus of families and businesses from Massachusetts as have the ones of Mitt y Muffy? Perhaps a snapshot of population numbers on election day and 1 year hence would be a interesting study.

As the Clinton election provided a huge lift to Conservative talkers, the Patrick administration will for Massachusetts talkmeisters.

PKB

 

[Varulven]

we'll have to wait and see. Muffy isn't doing too well at 7:29 PM in the debate.


If new polls are right, she’s dead in the water
By Kimberly Atkins
Pollsters playing the Grim Reaper are hounding Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey as she steps onto the TV debate stage tonight...

» Polls: Healey trailing by wide margin
http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg?articleid=163976

With her unfavorability ratings at an all-time high and Patrick reopening a wide 25 to 27 percent lead in the polls, Healey has less than two weeks to redefine herself.


Healey would definitely push people out of this city. It will be interesting to see how this all shakes out.

This is - perhaps - the most telling item:

But in the Suffolk/7News poll, 61 percent of voters said the recent tone of her campaign made them less likely to vote for her. More than 53 percent of voters now view her unfavorably. Patrick has just a 24 percent unfavorable rating.

 

[infrequency]

As the Clinton election provided a huge lift to Conservative talkers, the Patrick administration will for Massachusetts talkmeisters.

But will it? Talk radio is at its best when it points out and sends up the hapless politicos or when it takes on the miscues of the icompetent. Yet this gubernatorial election has strained the credibility of the "conservative talkers," as they have all followed Kerry Healey off her own cliff like dutiful little lemmings. Have we ever had better talk fodder than the screaming thugs in orange jumpsuits terrorizing a 12 year old? That alone should have been three days of incredulous harangues. And that was hardly her only glaring misstep. Yet these opportunities have been sacrificed at the altar of party affiliation. We're left with Deval's absentee ballot voting record. Riveting.

Things seem to have changed since the Clinton election. This bunch, aside from their penchant for picking losers, is utterly lacking in humor, and in particular self-deprecating humor. They sound like my father's Republicans - stolid, dour and boring.

 

[johnwas5]

heard someone say recently that Mitt is better off with Dems in power here because then he can blame whatever is going wrong in the state on them stead of it being made part of his legacy. Makes some sense.