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Schilling won’t run
Last night, former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling put to rest any speculation that he would seek the late Sen. Edward Kennedy’s seat representing Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate. On HBO’s Joe Buck Live, Schilling said:
“Regardless of the amount of support and outreach that’s been given to me, it just did not make sense.”
Meanwhile, with the Massachusetts legislature hard at work to change state law so that Gov. Deval Patrick can pick a temporary replacement, it appears that Patrick likely will select former Democratic governor and presidential candidate Michael Dukakis.
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Darn.
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That’s right up there next to gerrymandering.
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“It just did not make sense” is my new favorite euphemism for “polling showed I would have gotten trounced”!
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“It did not make sense” may be MYnock’s new favorite euphemism, but that does not qualify Mynock or anyone who does not know Schilling to presume to know what it actually means for Mr. Schilling in particular.
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I think Democrats (who dominate all political power in Massachusetts) know they will NOT be held accountable by the mainstream media the way Republicans would if Republicans played such shameless political shenanigans with the law to suit their political ambitions for more and more power. Democrats can be this shameless and arrogant because they fully presume to get protection from the media.
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It is pretty shameful that Republican’s are seeing Kennedy’s death only as an opportunity to hold more proportionate power in the Senate than the American voters alloted to them.
Putting Michael Dukakis in the Senate until a January 19th election is hardly that scandalous. Dukakis is as good a stand in for Kennedy as anyone I can think of. He’s massively popular in the state and can serve out a 3 month term in the Senate with integrity and creditability.
Republican’s might be able to snicker to their base and get a few cheers because the MA state legislature is doing something within their legal scope of power, but they will look opportunistic, crass, and insensitive if they try to take this joke mainstream. I think that effect would be felt most strongly in MA, where two Republican’s are currently competing in that election and will be the two people most likely to suffer if the national GOP doesn’t seem appropriate deferential to Teddy Kennedy’s passing.
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“It is pretty shameful that Republican’s are seeing Kennedy’s death only as an opportunity to hold more proportionate power in the Senate than the American voters alloted to them.”
So it was pretty shameful when the Dems did the same thing not too long ago then…fair enough.
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Why appoint Dukakis, if its a temporary spot, just appoint Schilling then. He’s massively popular with many MA people, and could easily handle only 3 months.
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Thorn,
You’re asking why Deval Patrick would appoint political ally, two time governor, former presidential candidate, professor of Political Science at Northern University, visiting-professor of political science and public affairs at Loyola Marymount and UCLA, long-time grassroots organizer, and well regarded statesman Michael Dukakis over former Red Sox pitcher Kurt Shilling?
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I’m not sure who Kurt Shilling is, but Curt Schilling broke an 80 year old curse, so I think he’s more than qualified.
This would allow your Duckakes to run for the actual seat.
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#6, “It is pretty shameful that Republican’s are seeing Kennedy’s death only as an opportunity to hold more proportionate power in the Senate than the American voters alloted to them.”
Huh? What have Republicans done? Was it Repulbians who actually changed the law to disempower a Republican governor’s role and to make sure that John Kerry’s seat would be protected for Democrats to preserve Democrat power in case Kerry moved on? Is it Republicans who are now crassly attempting to change the laws back again to re-empower a Democrat governor and preserve political power for Democrats? It has nothing to do with the quality or merit of the law, but how it serves the Democrat’s thirst for power at the moment. Talk about the crass exploitation of a death for political power! But this is the sort of abuse of power we have come to expect from Democrats today.
If the shame fits, wear it.
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When Michael Dukakis was running for president and debating George Bush Sr, I remember when they crossed swords over which party had the most serious “sleeze factor.” As an example of Republican “sleaze,” Dukakis included Robert Bork. I jumped from my seat to admonish my television. There was absolutely nothing sleazey or scandalous about Judge Bork. Apparently, Judge Bork came to represent “sleaze” in Dukakis’ mind simply because he disagreed with Bork’s ideology and his perceived conservatism. That was unacceptable and I was relieved when such a man as that lost.
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Thorn, I do like the way you think about the possibility of Curt’s appointment, but it will NEVER happen. A) Curt Schilling has no political experience, and Congress is calling for somebody with even a miniscule amount. B) Deval Patrick is the sleaziest, tax-raising liberal in Massachusetts, therefore it is foreordained he will choose someone of the same stripe, politically speaking.
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Mike Dukakis has the privilege of running presidential campaigns worse than Bob Dole and John McCain. That’s an accomplishment.
Massachusetts will probably re-elect him.
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As usual, I am awed and impressed by the intelligence and perceptiveness of Joel Mark’s comments on worldmagblog.
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Curt Schilling was a leader of the player’s union at one point was he not? That’s at least as much experience in politics as our president needed.
Might as well give him the intership.
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Random at 15. Straight from the RNC fax machine through god’s stand-in-on-earth to our ears.
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…or eyes.
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All my impressions of Curt Schilling lead to admiration, regardless of his politics. Still, it looks like I might admire his politics too. God bless him and his family.
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17 and 18
In one of my jobs, teaching computer classes, our classroom was next door to a community medical health center.
I often observed the students lining up for their appointments as I taught classes.
One day one of the patients approached me and asked about our computer classes. Her first five or six questions were perfectly rational and sensible. However, she lost me when she started asking me if we taught classes that would help her understand the databases the government were keeping to spy on her.
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That was my next to last job. In my last job, I worked for a library system with many branches. I ran into a student who told me that the computers in the library were spying on her. She was quite coherent and rational sounding, and there was actual evidence she encountered that played into her mania. I could explain everything that happened, and tried to. She just looked at me with a “OK, you’re one of them, also, arent’ you?”
I encountered her again in another library and had a similar experience. I am not making any of this up.
Now of course I read a web site where people believe they know what God wants and that creatures called “liberals” are all in cahoots to take over the world and murder them with “death panels.”
Really. I am not making any of this up.
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Should Curt Schilling make the Hall of Fame?
Curt Schilling was a clutch pitcher par exellence! His greatness in the postseason is the best argument. He has an 11 -2 postseason record (against the best oppoents of his time), three World Series rings and a World Series MVP. Schilling is the only pitcher to win a World Series start for three different teams.
Among all pitchers with 200 victories or more, he has the best strikeout-to-walk ratio (4.38) of anybody in history (although I heard one report saying his record was the second best in baseball history). In one World Series, he dominated the Yankees with a 26 to 2 strike-out to walk ratio.
The bloody sock game was one of the most memorial baseball moments/performances of all time. Perhaps the greatest “Red Sox” ever (at least in the most literal sense)!
Here’s a Schilling quote: “To say I’ve been blessed would be like calling Refrigerator Perry ‘a bit overweight.’”
I vote yes.
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I think Schilling is definately a hall of famer. No roids, and most voters look at more than 300 victories as the staple.
Smoltz will be in as well, for his 200 W and 150 plus saves.
I’ve always htought the hall of fame should be about the BEST players all around, including character, more so than just stats. The legends.
Men like Jim Rice shoulda been in the HoF 10 years ago.
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