Comments on: Gov. would proceed slowly on Clinton replacement

By: the consultant

the consultant — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:43:36 +0000

correct..but governor patterson may want a friendly
non rival in the senate seat when he seeks election
in 2010….and he may want the strongest name on
the ticket next to him for purposes of pulling
votes to the democratic line particularly if
giuliani is the candidate..I too was horified at
the assasination and not because I was a kennedy
supporter…but rather because I was pissed that
a choice had been taken away from the american
people by violence..and it was my choice to
make in the general had he gotten the nomination
not the choice of some wild madman named sirhan
bishara sirhan

By: Tim Hays

Tim Hays — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 16:34:15 +0000

I hope RFK Jr. stays out of it, although the irony of being appointed to his late father’s seat is irresistable.

I was ten blocks away from the Ambassador Hotel, in junior high school, when a certain horrific incident occurred.

As a lifelong Republican, I FEEL for the descendants of RFK and JFK. I was in fifth grade in LA when the school principal announced, “Children, return to your classrooms,” in 1963.

And in junior high, two months after MLK’s assassination, getting called in Latin class: “There’s been a terrible tragedy”—ten blocks away, at The Ambassador

Those were awful days, ugly, repugnant.

I have NEVER disliked Ted Kennedy. And, in fact, I feel for him.

But, as to the NY Senate seat: okay—RFK could fill his father’s seat. But he has not yet been elected to anything, unlike his cousins in MA and RI.

By: the consultant

the consultant — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:16:38 +0000

I am assessing his electoral chances…not indicating
my support….I would vote for rudy any day..but
new yorkers will not care about bobby’s history they
will only care that he is a kennedy

By: smartporpoise

smartporpoise — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:00:58 +0000

More interested in the environment? What environment? The heroin environment? The Hugo Chavez communist, let’s get rid of free speech environment? He has publicly stated that he’d be interested in Lowey’s seat. Like a historian who eventually starts not just examining the past, but actually starts thinking backwards, the consultant has been so long consulting that he sometimes slips into worrying more about HOW someone gets elected than WHO should be elected. Because ultra left-wingers lately seem to have the votes does not mean that we should search for slippery ways to join them.

By: the consultant

the consultant — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:18:30 +0000

bobby jr was way more interested in the environment..having
seen his dad shot in LA he had no burning desire to
be an elected official….if he does get the appointment
he cannot be beaten in a general election…the Kennedy
name is simply way to powerful in new york..and don’t
forget ny is 5-3 democrat in registration…Nita on
the other hand could be beaten by say, rudy giuliani

By: smartporpoise

smartporpoise — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:01:36 +0000

Goodell! At least the NFL tries to hold the players and officials accountable. Even the pretense of that in government would be an accomplishment.

By: smartporpoise

smartporpoise — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:58:13 +0000

If RFK Jr. is not beatable, he would have been Congressman Kennedy or Senator Kennedy a long time ago.

By: the consultant

the consultant — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:56:51 +0000

lowey might be beatable in the general election…rfk jr
is not beatable

By: Tim Hays

Tim Hays — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 11:43:03 +0000

Au contraire! I humbly nominate NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, who is the son of the last person appointed to fill a US Senate seat from New York.

It would be historic, and righteous. (Only, no Rocky to name him.)

Do you remember when Agnew came here in 1970 to thrash Charles Goodell, to the benefit of Jim Buckley? I do. (And I was just in high school in California.)

My friends: you’re going to see ALL the hacks from the Democratic Party scrambling to be named to Mrs. Clinton’s seat. My humble prediction: whoever is appointed will lose in 2010, should he/she run, most likely to a strong Republican.

Nita Lowey is feeling like Brando in “On the Waterfront”—“I coulda been a contender.”

By: yes

yes — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:05:50 +0000

RFK Jr. or Lowey are his best candidates.

By: yonkers

yonkers — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:17:07 +0000

whatever happened to qualifications!