Kennedy Family Reacts To Brown Victory

The Daily Beast:

Scott Brown's win was a crushing blow to the Kennedy clan. Lloyd Grove talks to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and family loyalists about Coakley's flaws and the bid to get brother Joe to run.

"It's a tough time," Kathleen Kennedy Townsend tells me. "It's very sad."

Read the whole story: The Daily Beast

Comments

[Angiefranci]

02:36 AM on 01/22/2010

I, too, feel that the reason Coakley lost is because she wasn't a good candidate, and all this fanfare about this foreshadowing the mid-term elections is bunk. I mean, it could be that the Democrats lose their filibuster proof majority, but I think they'll still be in the majority. And not having all the power might make the Republicans actually work together with the Democrats a little more 'cause a it is, they're not getting much done.

[WendellPerrySociety]

05:14 PM on 01/21/2010

Don't call me crazy - I heard it from a caller on Ed Schultz's radio show, but there is a conspiracy theory out there that Coakley was paid to throw this race by the big money intrests fighting health care reform.

[rcwblessed]

02:51 AM on 01/22/2010

Very interesting theory... it sure wouldn't surprise me. Politics is such a dirty business and rarely benefits the little people.

[livinreality]

03:16 PM on 01/21/2010

Heh, Heh, this article has been up 24 hrs. and 17 posts, it seems the public doesn't care what a Kennedy thinks anymore.

[ManUTd1989]

04:49 PM on 01/21/2010

there's still some alive?!?!

[calibabe]

02:50 PM on 01/21/2010

Kennedy. . . hmmmmm. . . . who is this Kennedy. . . . memory is a fickle thing. Get over it 'clan'.

[delta7777]

02:41 PM on 01/21/2010

What other result do you expect from running a totally incompetent campaign for a hopeless candidate??

[JimR]

02:35 PM on 01/21/2010

Well, there was a Kennedy on the ballot and he only got 1% of the vote!

(Yes, for those of you who are humor-challenged, I know he's not related to THE Kennedys.)

[Middleclassvotingbloc]

12:50 PM on 01/21/2010

----'feeling frustrated and glum" add defeated and deflated morale. I just don't know what to think at this stage of the game. The one thing I do know is that I would never vote for a Republican.

[rcwblessed]

02:53 AM on 01/22/2010

... never, ever!!!!!!!!!

[vinnieboiblue]

12:47 PM on 01/21/2010

Political pundits don't get it. This is not just about the Democrats over reaching. This is about the sorry state of the economy, an both sides wanting to cram policy down our throats without so much a bipartisan effort to right this economic mess, Coakley lost her bid due in part ,cause she never really took control an had a message that resonated with the people. When Kennedy, voted his one last time on the Senate floor, you would have thought the Democrats had a game plan. Assuming someone would win because they are the front runner an a Democrat, shows the political landscape is unbalanced, an will continue to shift back an forth til either side gets. We want answers, an not partisan games an upmanship.

[OnlyIfIHaveTo]

12:44 PM on 01/21/2010

"Tough time", "It's very sad" Give me a break! Lose your birth name Kathleen and really nobody would care for your opinion.

[care4mypeeps]

12:21 PM on 01/21/2010

The most important thing for All of us is to get on the same page because we have been blinded by the diversionary tactics of the Republican Party while our Civil Liberties are being chipped away and as long as we are fighting each other, the devastation done to the Constitution by the sneaky Republicans will go through smoothly because of the master manuevering.

Wake Up Everybody!!!!!!! We are in for a rude awakining and we are soo angry that we have not noticed that the Religious Republican Right has something up their sleeves and will sneak into legislation things that will catch All of us off guard.

We owe it to ourselves to get on the same page so that we can keep our eyes your the Republican Party of lies and deceit.

[sillyprogressafarian]

01:59 PM on 01/21/2010

Dont make me laugh talking about "civil liberties" when you and many other similar dems have no problem with the government taking away your right to chose not to purchase insurance from wall street. please, spare me the "rights" thingy.

[care4mypeeps]

02:22 PM on 01/22/2010

sillyprogressafarian You don't know me or what I stand for but yet you judged me.

I have never consented to give up any of my rights and so your whole method of false asumptions need to be re-vistited.

When we are cemented into a postion with no flexibility we can not appreciate the great ideas of others.

We have been divided soo long that we paint each other with a broad brush and refuse to accept a new direction from those we have deemed our enemies.

I want to appeal to our better nature to stop judging each other and standing in our own way.

I have been guilty of this because I see No One in the Republican Party speaking out against the horrific wrongs they have forced upon our great Nation as well as The Blue Dog Democrats.

I have to take a different tone because it is vitally important that we get on the same page.

What is stopping you from joining together we all parties and put a stop to Politicians using us to fight each other while they slide legislation through that will hurt all of us.

We need your help not your sarcasm.

Peace and Love

[chomedey]

12:21 PM on 01/21/2010

Wait the deception on the face of Mass when they found out the big mistake they have done, watching the guy vote with the party of NO,

[sillyprogressafarian]

02:02 PM on 01/21/2010

What surprise? What do you mean when they "found out"?, he campaigned that he would vote NO on HC, on democrat tax increases, on cap and trade, on terrorist civilian trials.... Earth!, welcome.

[carbolaw]

03:40 PM on 01/21/2010

Very little of his campaign focused on the actual issues. Most of what I saw of his campaign was about him being "one of the people" and being right there with everyone that was "mad as hell."

[ManUTd1989]

04:50 PM on 01/21/2010

OBAMA: One Big-*** Mistake America.

[DEJM]

12:07 PM on 01/21/2010

It's not her seat. The senate seat was held by Kennedy for so long because he was repeatedly elected by the voters...Her comments are thinly disguised disgust at the voters..

[Middleclassvotingbloc]

12:53 PM on 01/21/2010

She never claimed it was her seat. This is not about a seat, this is about beliefs and a sense of lost for the people who Sen. Kennedy served. They have now elected a Tea Bagger who will join in the chorus of "no".

[JimR]

02:33 PM on 01/21/2010

Sen. Kennedy served me, and I felt a sense of loss when he died. Nobody can fill his shoes, least of all Martha Coakley.

If Democrats don't want to lose even more seats in November, they need to get a clue, FAST.

[KIVPossum]

01:16 PM on 01/21/2010

He never took voted for granted.

[chriss0114]

12:05 PM on 01/21/2010

well if the Dems would put up a sound candidate it would not have been an issue!

[sillyprogressafarian]

11:54 AM on 01/21/2010

This is a great example of why Brown won the seat. People are tired of hearing about what the Kennedy's have to say about this senate seat. It doesnt belong to them. As long as the Kennedy's and democrats continue to think that it is, the better for republicans and independents.

[Middleclassvotingbloc]

12:56 PM on 01/21/2010

You must be a Republican or either too young to remember or know--you don't seem to understand what Kennedy represented for the people he served worked so hard for so many years.

[sillyprogressafarian]

01:56 PM on 01/21/2010

No, I am an independent that supported Brown. The Kennedy's were and are not gods. They are/were public servants and nothing more. The Camelot generation is over. WE no longer worship politicians.

[JimR]

02:34 PM on 01/21/2010

Indeed. Ted Kennedy was a great man.

But he's gone now.

[viewfromuphere]

08:31 PM on 01/21/2010

so why are you reading it??

I don't know about you but I don't read articles by people who I don't like.

[Tags]

11:47 AM on 01/21/2010

The Kennedys have been punched in the nose, and we all know how the Kennedys react to that. This is the teabagels' worst nightmare. See you in November.

[sillyprogressafarian]

02:05 PM on 01/21/2010

yes, they get drunk, drive drunk, take loads of drugs, attack women, drive cars off bridges with women in them and wait a day to report it after getting a lawyer, etc, etc....

[Cynth]

03:26 PM on 01/21/2010

It's clear you like cherry picking your info to suit your world-view and agenda.

[carbolaw]

03:42 PM on 01/21/2010

Another great Right Winger post. Let's ignore all of the good that the Kennedy's have done over the years for equal rights, civil liberties, working people, children's health care, education and on and on. Then let's take a cheap shot right wing talking point and then completely over-exaggerate that point in order to think we are being clever.