Tuesday, February 05, 2008
The end of the Kennedy mojo?
I just got back from a business function (cell phone self-portrait at right) and am catching up on election returns. My endorsement does not seem to have carried the day for Mr. Romney, but in the Super Tuesday details I was very happy to see that Massachusetts has gone for Hillary Clinton. I seem to recall that the Kennedy family, the Bourbons of Bay State politics, created a big stir by endorsing Barack Obama last week. If this defeat means that nobody will pay attention to Kennedy endorsements in the future, we can count that as a small and important victory even if it inured to the benefit of Hillary Rodham Clinton.
10 Comments:
By 
SR, at
Tue Feb 05, 10:38:00 PM:
TH:
You really look like your should be a limousine liberal.
By TigerHawk, at
Tue Feb 05, 10:47:00 PM:
It was my brilliant disguise. Nobody there suspected I was a right-wing blogger!
By 
, at
Tue Feb 05, 11:05:00 PM:
Gee, that coat looks a little tight around the waist, buddy. A little tight around the collar, too.
Eating well, we see. :)
Actually, you look great. A black bow tie? And are those studs? Musta been some "business function." Given the shit-eating grin plastered across your mug and the puffy, squinty eyes, do we presume this photo was taken after the "business function"?
I had the exact same observation you did when I heard Mass was going to Hillary. "Goodbye, Kennedy era -- and good riddance!" was what flitted through my mind.
What went through my mind a week ago, when Teddie endorsed Obama was, "You'd better hope Hill doesn't win."
If she does, I leave it for the readers to imagine the repercussions. And deservedly so, I'd add. That was a real piece of backstabbing on Kennedy's part. Old School is supposed to support Old School, those are the time-honored rules.
Side editorial comment: You meant "was to", not "inured to." Inured means "getting used to something". E.g., "We're getting inured to the idea of a President Hillary Clinton."
I mean, just to pick one random example out of many.
Another indication the Kennedy Clan has lost its magic touch is how little press Patrick Kennedy gets. Fawning over him, the MSM is not. The only two times I can recall his name in the headlines over the past year or so was that weird drunk driving incident, and something crazy he was saying about global warming a while back. But it seems obvious the MSM doesn't deem him the Bourbon Heir Apparent.
Praise Be.
By Christopher Chambers, at
Tue Feb 05, 11:07:00 PM:
Had a friend up there who broke it down this way: white women are Hillary's backbone. A lot of them actually like Obama (all except oler white women, apparently) but are just locked into the Hillary orbit. Not even a Kennedy could break them out. Got nothing to do with mojo--not quite. If Barack's the nominee, you see this mojo come back to rally the Clintonestras in Nov.
By , at
Tue Feb 05, 11:19:00 PM:
Dude,
What's with all those palm trees?
By Christopher Chambers, at
Tue Feb 05, 11:33:00 PM:
He's in Hawaii, maybe? Perhaps some industry conclave? Or a combined biz-family trip to take the edge of the recession? Looks too resort-ish to be a place where he's contemplating outsourcing...
By Christopher Chambers, at
Wed Feb 06, 01:00:00 AM:
PS--Barack was polling around 20% two weeks ago in Mass. He ended up with double that. He's closing gaps nationwide on a Clinton machine that can't even outraise him in donations (Streisand and these other folk notwithstanding). So yeah--the kennedys helped. Not much, but they helped.
By , at
Wed Feb 06, 01:20:00 AM:
Count me as one native of New England for whom the Kennedy name has long lost its aura. To know the Kennedys is not to love them. My years of absence from New England and the Kennedys have not made my heart fonder of the Kenndys. One more cliché for the road: like the songs say about some Texas towns, the Kennedys are best seen in the rearview mirror, or in the draft of a windmill off the Cape.
By , at
Wed Feb 06, 02:32:00 AM:
I think you've got the Robert DeNiro look down cold.
By TigerHawk, at
Wed Feb 06, 04:14:00 AM:
If you must know, I am at a second-tier resort in the Tampa area. This is the first night of our annual national sales weekend, and we corporate tools (CEO, CFO, and COO) served dinner, as in waited on, the top reps in the company. Pretty fun, actually.
So if I look like a waiter it is because I actually was one tonight.
