The son of the late Sen. Ted Kennedy says a Republican victory in the race for his father’s Senate seat is a sign that the American public is out for “blood.”
As election returns came in Tuesday night, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) said it’s clear that voters wanted “a whipping boy” for all the lost jobs and foreclosed homes.
“It’s like in Roman times they’d be trotted out to the coliseum and the lions would be brought out,” Kennedy told reporters at the Capitol Tuesday night. “I mean, they’re wanting blood and they’re not getting it so they want to protest and, you know, you can’t blame them. But frankly, the fact is we inherited this mess and it’s becoming ours.”
Kennedy did not fully wade into the battle for the seat, he said, he “never wanted anyone to think for a moment” that it was his family’s seat.
“It wasn’t my dad’s seat, it was Massachusetts’s seat,” Kennedy said. “My dad was honored to occupy it every six years when the people of Massachusetts voted him in again.”
But Kennedy also offered a scathing review of Democrats and perhaps a back-handed jab at Democratic candidate Martha Coakley, whom many in the party are blaming for the loss of a seat Kennedy’s father held for more than four decades.
While he said that the swing toward Republican Scott Brown represented a “general protest vote,” he also said that each candidate has an obligation to do his best to make his case.
“[I]t’s just a case where you gotta make your own mark and sell the policies, and I think the people of Massachusetts are receptive to the Democratic progressive politics but, you know, it has to be sold,” Kennedy said.
“This is about messaging,” he said. “You gotta be on your ‘A’ game, you gotta be a good politician, you gotta get out there and tell them the story and once they know, voters will respond.”
Still, he said that Democrats have never been very helpful in backing up candidates with a unified message.
“I belong to an unorganized party,” he said. “It’s the Democratic party. You know, that’s the nature of the beast. Deal with it.”
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We all want blood.
We want our country back!
And we started with Virgina, then NJ, and now Mass.
ENOUGH!!!!
Hope Obama and Rahm Emanuel get the message loud and clear. No closed door politics, no 1:00am secret votes, no bribing Senators and Congressmen, and stop shoving this healthcae down our throats.
As usual the liberals show their usual hypocrisy.
For 8 years under Bush they demanded blood and I do not mean in ‘just’ is a political sense.
I mean they demanded it quite literally.
They went on blogs all over the internet posting comments about how they wanted every conservative
(along will the Jews) to be killed and hanging from the nearest tree.
Some of those comments were extremly graphic about the tortures they wanted to do to conservatives just for supporting Bush who they also wanted tortured and hanged.
You still see this on blogs where someoen is accused of abuse of animals and every liberal supports it as shown by their silence when such posts are made and are never opposed by any liberals.
The American are showing the Democrats that they want limited government, low taxes, and a strong military. Do our politicians get the hint?
no politician shall be permited to set on a goverment seat so long. after 2-3 times they should step a side and give a chance for other people to serve in the goverment
obamanation. kennedy, rahm. biden enough is enough is enough stop talking against the previous administation and do good. Enough of the blame game, I have had enough of obamanation and his family pictures everyday in the news and newpapers etc. Blame everyday carter for the iranian mess we are in. Do this everyday news station. This could end in a divastation that would be worst than the holocaust . NOW show this everday