Indulge me my fantasy: Howard Dean and wife move to Massachusetts tomorrow

robo50

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:23 PM
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Indulge me my fantasy: Howard Dean and wife move to Massachusetts tomorrow

Edited on Wed Aug-26-09 06:25 PM by robo50

Buy a condo in Boston, Cape Cod, somewhere........

Get on the ballot for Senator

Get elected from the state with close to a full health care plan.

Give me follow-up....to this premise.

POSSIBLE?

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msongs

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:24 PM
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1. if yer gonna fantasize how bout he is president instead nt

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robo50

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:51 PM
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8. would love to see him as PREZ but never got above

10%.....never was black, never conducted himself as a guy who could love all of us.

He missed that, too cerebral... too competitive. Well qualified, never learned how to be on TV, could have defeated GWB in 2004 if he had done so.

I really knew little about Dean before we saw him on TV.............sorry.

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SemiCharmedQuark

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Wed Aug-26-09 07:56 PM
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13. "Never was black"? What is that supposed to mean?

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NYCGirl

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Wed Aug-26-09 08:20 PM
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16. Yeah, it's much easier being elected POTUS if you're black...

:eyes:

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SemiCharmedQuark

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Wed Aug-26-09 08:22 PM
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17. History supports that theory...perhaps one day in the distant future, we'll have a white president.

Keep the dream alive!

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NYCGirl

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Thu Aug-27-09 10:14 PM
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31. LOL!

:thumbsup:

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rox63

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:25 PM
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2. Ain't gonna happen

There will be crowds of MA Democrats lining up to run for Kennedy's Senate seat. This will be the first open Senate seat in the state in 25 years.

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Dinger

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:26 PM
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3. I Like It

Anything is possible.:) :patriot:

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wryter2000

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:33 PM
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4. And then,

In 2016, he runs for President as Senator from MA and wins. I like it!

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pennylane100

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:36 PM
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5. As much as I love Obama

I wish Dean had won the presidency.

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TayTay

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:37 PM
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6. Not even remotely

What has he ever done for the Commonwealth to get a Senate seat?

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Sebastian Doyle

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:47 PM
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7. What did Willard Mittens Brigham Romney ever do for the Commonwealth

to get the Governor's mansion?

I'm reasonably certain that Massachusetts will find a decent Democrat to occupy Teddy's Senate seat (I won't say replace him, because that ain't possible.) I'm actually far more concerned with what will happen to Robert Byrd's seat, as he obviously won't be in it much longer either. I suspect the DLC is already hunting for another Republican they can whitewash as a "democrat" for that seat. They'll justify it with all the "white working class voter" horseshit that they used in last year's primary season.

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robo50

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:55 PM
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9. Mittens.....has no interest to make himself a junior Senator

Edited on Wed Aug-26-09 06:56 PM by robo50

and being hated by Mass voters.

That's like Senator Ted Kennedy in 1980........

not wanting to be hated, but loving to be elected.

I think 10,000 people in Mass love Ted, 100 love Romney.

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karynnj

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Wed Aug-26-09 11:31 PM
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22. What are you talking about????

Ted Kennedy was not a junior Senator in 1980 - he already had 18 years of seniority. He also was not hated by MA and was likely loved by more than 10,000.

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TayTay

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Wed Aug-26-09 06:57 PM
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10. He ran for it as a MA resident

And I never voted for him, but he wasn't a carpetbagger either. Much as it pains me to say it, he was a longtime resident of the Commonwealth who legally moved here and was the legal choice of the voters. (Though just barely. I think he was a plurality winner, not a majority winner in a divided election.)

Howard Dean is from Vermont, he's not from around here.

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cali

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Thu Aug-27-09 03:00 AM
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23. exactly. Dean is a Vermonter. And like the vast majority of Vermonters he has NO

interest in moving to MA. At all.

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TayTay

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Thu Aug-27-09 10:38 AM
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26. I agree

And I understand the desire to keep Vermonters in Vermont. And Massholes in Massholia. It works well that way.

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invictus

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Thu Aug-27-09 02:27 PM
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28. LOL! +1

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The Straight Story

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Wed Aug-26-09 07:59 PM
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14. He could pull a clinton

:rofl:

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argonaut

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Wed Aug-26-09 07:41 PM
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11. I hear Mike Dukakis is a potential nominee to serve the rest of Kennedy's term.

He'd be a little more plausible, I think.

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silverweb

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Wed Aug-26-09 10:20 PM
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20. Dukakis would be a GREAT choice!

Can you say where you heard that?

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argonaut

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Thu Aug-27-09 07:53 AM
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24. A few places - I think a party chairman of some sort mentioned it.

http://www.electoral-vote.com/ is one, and it's mentioned in passing in a couple of othe places:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/08272009/news/nationalnews/plenty_of_kennedys_in_mix_for_senate_sea_186661.htm

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/thefix/morning-fix/082109-morning-fix.html?wprss=thefix

Of course, this is working under the assumption that the legislature reverts that Romney-appointment-prevention thingy.

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silverweb

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Thu Aug-27-09 01:55 PM
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27. Thanks for the links.

I do hope the legislature reverses the appointment ban quickly. Senator Kennedy's seat simply cannot remain vacant for any lengthy amount of time.

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Clio the Leo

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Wed Aug-26-09 07:43 PM
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12. ha ha! Love it. NT

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chollybocker

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Wed Aug-26-09 08:05 PM
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15. Vermont would be extremely pissed.

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question everything

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Wed Aug-26-09 09:42 PM
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18. I don't think that Howard Dean is a good team player, be 1 out of 100

and he certainly is not going to sit in the back seats as a junior senator to wait his turn.

No, both as a physician and as governor he is a dynamite executive, a power of one. Let him roam the country, talk to people, address the crowds - he really is good at that - and energize the constituents of the ones who are afraid of their own shadow.

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Nicholas D Wolfwood

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Thu Aug-27-09 03:47 PM
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29. I agree completely.

Some people just aren't cut out to be legislators. Dean's one of them. I'd rather him get back into a governor's race.

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donheld

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Wed Aug-26-09 10:10 PM
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19. Indulge me my fantasy: George Clooney forsakes all others

goes gay and marries me.

Sorry, can I play this game too?

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Rowdyboy

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Thu Aug-27-09 04:47 PM
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30. Best response of the day! And just about as likely to happen......

Fantasies are fun

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WonderGrunion

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Fri Aug-28-09 06:34 AM
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32. That would involve moving to Mass. too, right?

For the marriage part, I mean. Not that Mass. is the only place it could happen, just that it would tie in better with the OP that way.

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karynnj

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Wed Aug-26-09 11:27 PM
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21. Given that this is a state where the Boston Globe felt it necessary to

mention in their Boston Guide book published in 2004, that Senator Kerry was not MA born, I don't think they would go for that. (Kerry's mother's family goes back to the first governor of MA and his father grew up in MA too. His dad was in the air force and in a hospital where JK was born. He moved to MA when he was one years old.)

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Orsino

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Thu Aug-27-09 10:35 AM
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25. My fantasy is that Massachusetts citizens pick a progressive from among themselves.

Someone like Howard Dean, perhaps, but a representative who is plugged into the concerns of that state.

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