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13 Responses to “Register and vote!”

1. C R Krieger Says:
   December 29th, 2009 at 9:55 pm

   Re Mimi pimping the National GOP, she is not alone, nor is The Boston Herald alone.  Here is Ed Morrissey from Hot Air on the same exact topic.  With references to other commenters.  For those who have been around the blog long enough, Ed Morriseey is the former blogger at Captain’s Quarters, the chap who helped bring down the Canadian Government through his blogging of information the Canadian Press would not report.

   Regards  —  Cliff

2. Right In Lowell Says:
   December 29th, 2009 at 10:50 pm

   Check out this info on Coakley. This is a right wing blog but what he says is on the money.

   http://rabidrepublicanblog.com/2009/12/29/martha-coakley-our-nightmare-scenario/

3. Indie in Lowell Says:
   December 30th, 2009 at 8:36 am

   Why I voted for Scott Brown

   Because it’s time to stand against the takeover of our freedoms and rights.

   Because it’s time to make a choice based on thought, not just because someone has a D after their name.

   Because it’s time we woke up and realized that we’re adults, are responsible for our own lives, and that it’s not the government’s job to take care of us.

   Because we know that the majority currently in charge can steamroller us on every issue. This should be your concern whether you’re a D or an R (or any other type of voter).

   Because Americans know that we are currently not secure; terrorists continue to threaten us, we continue to sellout to other countries, the current situation is not tenable.

   It’s time to speak out and effect a change.

   It’s time to show we CAN elect someone who has our interests at heart.

   It’s time to elect Scott Brown. (and, yes, I did vote, absentee… for Scott Brown)

4. tim Says:
   December 30th, 2009 at 9:17 am

   Hee hee ha ha! The majority can steamroll us! ha ha!

   holy damn, that’s sum funny stuff there. I’m popping up some popcorn getting ready for this democrat steamrolling to begin!

5. Bob Forrant Says:
   December 30th, 2009 at 10:54 am

   Dear Indie,

   So are you ok with never ever driving your car again on the Interstate highway system or using your computer and the Internet, or having your money in the bank insured, or likely having someone you know or are close to getting a social security check, or Medicare or Medicaid coverage? If so, click your heals and move to the remotest rural area of the country and start homesteading totally off the grid.

   I am with you that we have essentially a poor excuse for a government right now at the state and national levels. But there is no steamroller - on the contrary there is the most frustrating deadlock in Washington and far too much one-party corruption in the MA state house. And, on the notion of terrorists threatening us, the Reps in DC have blocked implementation of full body scanning technology being introduced at our airports. I have little doubt that if Reps were in the White House, Dems would find a reason to do the same.

   I agree with you for sure Indie that we must all speak out and press for deep and fundamental change, far greater personal responsibility across the board, a sense of humility on the part of our elected officials, and a simple, basic sense among Reps and Dems alike of what is right and wrong. It ain’t that difficult.

   Happy 2010 everyone.

6. Mill Girl Says:
   December 30th, 2009 at 4:43 pm

   Being a “Bill Weld Republican” is all well and good for state-wide elections but when you talk about electing a Republican to the Senate in this current climate I think we need to face facts. The R or D after the name matters. If you elect Scott Brown you send a junior senator from the minority party who has major policy differences with the leadership of his party. If he breaks ranks with the conservative republican party and votes with the Dems, he will get crushed by the party leadership, no committee appointments and zero influence. We’re already going to take a huge hit with the loss of Ted Kennedy (if you liked him or not he brought home huge dollars to the Commonwealth).

   I think we all need to take an objective view of the political landscape and make the vote that will help Massachusetts in the long run.

7. Jack Mitchell Says:
   December 31st, 2009 at 10:38 am

   Mill Girl nailed it!

   Scott Brown will be the Senator from Massassippi or Alabamachusetts. His votes will cater to the regional rump party that is today’s GOP.

8. Mimi Says:
   December 31st, 2009 at 1:41 pm

   Jack:

   Happy New Year! Hope all is well. I am not advocating voting for Scott Brown or any other Republicans; having choices is good for democracy.

   By the way, I have a better chance of getting elected Senator from Massachusetts than him. At this rate, the Massachusetts GOP may exist in name only.

9. Jack Mitchell Says:
   December 31st, 2009 at 2:13 pm

   Mimi, I agree in theory, “having choices is good for democracy.”

   Unfortunately, the purists, left & right, make things difficult. I consider myself fairly moderate in certain areas and liberal in others. Within my own political mind exists a sense of compromise or, to use a dirty word, bipartisanship.

   The GOP is all but dead to me, especially at the national level. There is no give in them, so I cannot give either. They have succumbed to the most energized part of their base, which are the ones that have the most skewed interpetation of The Constitution. I will not comingle with it.

   Locally, I am much more forgiving. In city government, and MAYBE at state level, I can find common ground with a Republican. This is, in part, because the greater framework is controlled by the Democrats. If I lived in a Southern state, where they are less clear on the separation of Church & State, it would be hard for me to subsidize those views in any fashion.

   Happy New Year!

10. starwomanspirit Says:
    January 1st, 2010 at 1:10 pm

    Why? Is there a candidate running that is NOT a republicrat?

    We need a party that represents people not corporations in our country.

    Both Democrats and Republicans are dancing for corporate cash.

    Campaign Finance Reform that publicly finances elections and outlaws (with severe mandatory penalties all gifts and cash to elected officials) is the structural change we need in America.

    Outlaw legalized Bribery ASAP!!!

11. Iron Mike Says:
    January 1st, 2010 at 2:19 pm

    You go Mill Girl! Vote for Martha because that’s what your family has ALWAYS done – vote for Dems no matter how drunk or corrupt they were. And Martha’s a woman – what else do you need to know? Well, she ~ might ~ be a lesbian, that would help – right? Gotta support those non-traditional families. And she’s promised to vote for ObamaCare and Cap-and-Trade so you know she’s anti-business. Like all Dems she hasn’t read them – but so what? Massachusetts will be so much better off when we’ve driven the last dying remnants of manufacturing out of here. The Indians and Chinese fully support your family voting patterns. What they could never have accomplished on their own, generations of your family voting D has delivered unto them. (Psst – did you know that India and China are non-union?) Check the labels of your clothes. Oh horrors – made by non-union labor! Eek!

    And she knows all about the military – how we have to read Miranda rights to terrorists, and end “Don’t Ask” – so we can have platoons of lesbian infantry stalking the Taliban on the Hindu Kush. And Martha has a sister living overseas so she knows all about foreign affairs. Why, she should be running for President. Ooh, sorry Barrack, I just got carried away.

    So just like Fat Teddy, John Ketchup Kerry, GrandMa Tsongas, and Bwarny Fwank, you can COUNT on Martha to bring all kinds of JOBS to Lowell, Lawrence, Methuen, Fall River and all the other dried-up mill towns in the Commonwealth. You go Girl!

    /s/ Iron Mike

12. Mill Girl Says:
    January 1st, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    Huh? I have a different view so I must not be thinking for myself? Not sure where those assumptions came from I.M. but my parents, one a Republican and one a Democrat have managed to be respectful of eachothers political views for 50 years. They also taught me to look at both sides of a political issue and make an informed decision.

    Like I said in my earlier comment, it’s not about whether you liked Teddy or not and I have no idea how lesbians even got involved. It’s about who will have the most success representing the Commonwealth in Washington in the current political climate. Send Scott Brown and Massachusetts gets zero dollars for roads, schools, economic development, etc. Simple as that.

13. Iron Mike Says:
    January 2nd, 2010 at 8:02 am

    >> will have the most success representing the Commonwealth
    >> in Washington in the current political climate
    Martha - like the rest of the pack of Dems [Soros socialists] aren’t representing the Commonwealth. Kerry represents his own political ambitions, - as did Fat Teddy. Our “Gang of Ten” in the house are all Soros Soldiers - voting for bills which will destroy the America you grew up in - in the name of “Fairness”. WAKE UP Mill Girl, Martha will be JUST as JUNIOR as Scott, but he’ll have a chance of holding back the red tide, while she would rip open the sandbags, - with a vengence.

    We need someone down there this year to help STOP the MADNESS, not aide and abet it.

    /s/ Iron Mike
    www.RabidRepublicanBlog.com

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