Now it’s because of taxes? The New York Times reports:
Problems involving taxes and a household employee surfaced during the vetting of Caroline Kennedy and derailed her candidacy for the Senate, a person close to Gov. David A. Paterson said on Thursday, in an account at odds with Ms. Kennedy’s own description of her reasons for withdrawing. [...]
Seriously?
I wasn’t going to cover this debacle again, but the latest reporting of yet another excuse on Caroline Kennedy’s serial embarrassment pulled me back in. If you’re going to pull your name, pull it, and make sure everyone is clear, especially the man who might appoint you. Talk about mass baffonery.
Never in the history of aborted campaigns has a woman so botched her own public roll out. Incompetent. Confusing. Incoherent. Just by watching her the last weeks New Yorkers should be thanking the ghost of Patrick Moynihan that they didn’t get stuck with this woman as senator.
Could Caroline Kennedy have been handled any worse? Doubtful.
I agree the roll-out was horrible, and her performance was weak, and this tax thing is embarrassingly stupid.
But the winner of the all-time roll-out cluster f. and candidate self-destruction belongs to Sarah Palin.
Now if Caroline starts holding press avails in front of decapitated Thanksgiving turkeys, I will gladly change my mind. LOL
Yeah, but Mrs. Kennedy is accomplished and comes from the Ivy League world of politics. Given all her advantages this is a first rate humiliation.
I would feel sorry for her except for the tax thing. I remember 30 years ago my grandmother making a point of paying her long time house keeper’s social security taxes to ensure she would have the benefits.It is the decent thing to do.A women with Caroline’s money? Who is supposed to be another liberal champion Kennedy?
O.T sorry…Kit Bond just said on Hardball that people in Missouri think Gitmo is just fine! Jeez I think I have to call his office and disabuse him of that idea! Thank God he is retiring!
Well Boo-freakin-Hoo! I sincerly hope this puts a stake in the heart of any politicol asperations Ms. kennedy has or had. She thought she could just breeze in and invoke the name Kennedy and the State of New York would fall collectively to their knees and thank her for lowering herself to come and save them.
Lake Lady | 01.22.2009 – 4:54 pm | #
He was pretty scary. When you call, tell him his neighbors in Illinois don’t agree with him either. They have some pretty scary dudes in the prison in Menard in southern Illinois.
secularhumanizinevoluter | 01.22.2009 – 4:58 pm | #
It all comes off as an effort of face saving that blew up in her face.
I just got off the phone with his office. I told them that millions of Missourians who voted for Obama do NOT think Gitmo is just fine and he did not speak for us.They took my name and zip code and said they would pass my comments along. I think I am going to do an email blast to all my Dem contacts in my county. That was outrageous!
I suspect the whole ‘Caroline as Senator’thing was meddling from Uncle Ted in the first place.If that is true he has done her a severe diservice.She has lost her shine.
She just didn’t know what she was getting herself into, that’s all. Caroline still lives in a very wealthy, sheltered bubble. Her consultants really blew it for her.
Gosh and those 127 House members who sold insurance before taking office had so much more experience..and those 17 Senators who also sold insurance prior….I believe that 17 of them owned a business..heck one in Oklahoma sold used cars! and one was a policeman……yep being the author of 2 books that in part dealt with the rule of law in this country and working closely with politicans on boards and giving her time to charity! what the hell was someone with the last name of Kennedy doing thinking she could handle a job that a used car salesman could do??????
In this instance? People acted like asses simply because her last name was Kennedy. Cumo? oh he won’t get the job because of who his family is but hey he did get better polls than Kennedy…..it was jealousy at it’s most childish.
I personally think she was talked into this. And I believe that this was her way of getting out of it. Maybe not, but I never felt she was really that enthusiastic about it. She is a very private person who has had a lot of tragedy in her life. More than most people have had to endure. Wealthy she is, but if you aren’t happy then it means nothing.
One of the things I always wondered was why her husband was never with her to support her. I just thought that was odd.
Grissom1001 | 01.22.2009 – 5:51 pm | #
Yeah, those asses from NY just didn’t have the sense or brains to understand what an honor it was that someone from American Royalty would even soil her ivy league hands trying to ease their barbaric burdens. SHEEEEESH! The NOIVE of some peoples!!!
Taylor, I know you posted an article before about the Afghani school girls that had acid thrown in their face. The one today was interesting in that they have the culprits. But I can’t help but agree with the young woman about the punishment.
Personally, I do not like this Gillibrand idea …
A Blue dog Democrat = A Republican living in New York …
Grissom1001 | 01.22.2009 – 5:51 pm |
Absolutely… And don’t forget the bug man, Tom Delay.
The second I heard Hillary was confirmed last night I was elated but today after seeing her as Secretary of State, just wow! I feel safer already.
And I love the imagery of Hillary at the presidential podium, it will happen one day
something about an affair with someone from the NY Times… the only problem is the source is Bill O’Reily
something about an affair with someone from the NY Times… the only problem is the source is
Bill O’Reily
GeoT | 01.22.2009 – 8:27 pm
I saw that. Someone on “Hardball” said the same thing but Chris Mathews quashed it. The person is the publisher of the NYT, Arthur Salzburger Jr.
I think Caroline is a bit of an emotionalist. She liked the Obama aura, attention. She obviously didn’t realize there is a reality to politics.
She was like Oprah, who also didn’t vote.
They are thrilled they were a part of his success.
She didn’t realize it was her name, alone, that stirred up interest in him.
She mistakenly thought it was her.
Caroline, to me, is like so many women who never really compete in life, don’t get bonked down by real competition, and cling to old notions about how they are “something big.”
Sad story?
Not really. It’s just a part of her real life.
She’ll be just fine. She flubbed this big-time in public, but that’s not her fault, in my opinion. I’ve flubbed just as big, but I just am not a Kennedy.
She just flubbed up. No big deal.
Now, if Hillary did this? Big deal. Hillary is on a completely different level.
Once you’ve learned lessons, then you’re really expected to demonstrate that you “get” it.
Actually, I’ve seen worse, and it was another Kennedy, Caroline’s cousin, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.
The worst candidate in the history of history.
Headline:
Grownups back in charge.
Obama to Host Bipartisan Meeting on Economy
http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-01-23-voa10.cfm
Interesting, Matthew.
I just think this is the Obama “wake.” All of his endorsements were, to me, the “B” team.
Still, I can’t believe she was in charge of the VP nominations.
Lordy.
Not that it was real, of course.
Well, I can’t wait to hear what the “grown-ups” say about the Pakistan mess.
Yeah, but Mrs. Kennedy is accomplished and comes from the Ivy League world of politics. Given
all her advantages this is a first rate humiliation.
TaylorMarsh | Homepage | 01.22.2009 – 4:43 pm | #
It’s Mrs. Schlossberg, or Miss Kennedy, I believe. She spent more time as her mother’s daughter than as a part of the Ivy League of Politics. It gave her some grace, but nothing to justify being escorted into a senate seat.
She is Jack Kennedy’s daughter, and only remaining member of Camelot. She has been through losses that none of us would want to have to deal with. I believe the country embraces her out of sympathy.
If she wants to brush up on her speaking abilities, volunteer or work in local politics, and run for the seat in 2010 after her personal issues are taken care of, I would think she might win the election. It’s hard to imagine our Senate without a Kennedy.