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Topic: Never Having to
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Never Having to
Say You're Sorry
American Spectator, by Patrick Howley
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Posted By:Pluperfect, 11/6/2012 11:45:35 AM
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| The day before the Massachusetts Senate election, the polls still have it a dead heat. Neither Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren or incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown can justifiably claim at this point to holding a numerical advantage of any substance. The race will be decided tomorrow by the good people of Massachusetts, and by how many of them are passionate enough to brave the early November cold to find their way down to the polling places. As a political journalist in an age when politics so rarely rises to a level that even deserves journalism --
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
GreatGreyhounds, 11/6/2012 11:56:55 AM (No. 8992349)
If Lying Lizzie had an 'R' after her name, every press outlet in the state would have run her back to Oklahoma!
As if they would want her...
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Susannah, 11/6/2012 11:58:28 AM (No. 8992355)
This is a fascinating article that explains a lot about Massachusetts politics. Thanks for posting it, OP.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mickturn, 11/6/2012 12:05:08 PM (No. 8992371)
the good people of Massachusetts???????
What are YOU smoking. IF they are good, then Libs are good, sadly this isn't the case.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
veritas, 11/6/2012 12:40:13 PM (No. 8992472)
Anyone who gives credence to polling this go-around is nuts.
I suggest doubling the margin of error any poll reports. Once one does that, credibility becomes harder to find than a patriotic Democrat.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Proud American, 11/6/2012 12:48:59 PM (No. 8992501)
I beg your pardon #3. I am from MA. We voted Governor Romney in and Senator Brown. Half of us here value our liberty thanks very much.
I was at the polling location in my town at 6:20 am to vote - I have been the first to vote in my town for decades.
We are trapped behind enemy lines here so have a little mercy for your fellow conservative LDotter family members!
Proud American in MA
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
zoidberg, 11/6/2012 12:56:36 PM (No. 8992527)
She was born "Elizabeth Herring." I knew there was something fishy about her.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Hazymac, 11/6/2012 1:06:21 PM (No. 8992554)
After dishonestly and shamelessly gaming the affirmative action system of spoils, Elizabeth Warren aka Lieawatha aka Fauxcahontas aka Sacaga"no"wea should have been routed out of not only the race for the Senate, but also out of her job on the faculty at Harvard Law School, which she lied her way into. But leftists have no sense of shame--only entitlement. I will be very disappointed in the voters of Massachusetts if they boost this dishonest character into what used to be the World's Greatest Deliberative Body. This demi-communist should be wearing tar, not pearls. Her entire professional life since 1984 has been a lie.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lostinmassachusetts, 11/6/2012 2:28:46 PM (No. 8992750)
Warren is going to lose. No one likes her, but people do like Scott Brown. She'll win the liberal vote, but lose the independents.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
No Representation in CA, 11/6/2012 4:12:58 PM (No. 8992995)
Au contraire, #6. She's more red than fishy.
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