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br> -- Michael DePietro MD br> Hockessin, Delaware /p> p> ON KERRY'S LOSING STREAK br> Re: W. James Antle III's Beatty the Odds : /p>

I would like to be somewhat optimistic regarding Mr. Beatty handing the arrogant Sen. Kerry a deserved loss in November. Unfortunately, I can not. It is my humble opinion that the Dems of Mass. will elect Sen. Kennedy at least the first time he is up for re-election after he passes on.

The trouble, it seems to me, is that the uber-liberal population of the eastern quarter of Mass. overwhelms the rest of the state. Even the Dems there that are not super liberal are yellow dog Dems. A large portion of these folks don't even know how to vote for a Repub, they have never done so. I believe that some even believe that it is against the law to vote for a Repub. Are we even sure that the voting machines have lines for the Repub candidates to be listed on? Both houses of the Mass. legislature are about 90% Dem. Yes, I know that the last few Governors before Deval Patrick were Repubs, but that was only so that the Dems would have someone other than themselves to blame the Big Dig and other state boondoggles on. Virtually no law, regulation, or ordinance can be passed into law, or removed from the code books, without the concurrence of the Dem Speaker of the House and/or the President of the Senate in Mass.

If the voting population of Boston and its environs were not enough, there is the voting population of the Cape and Martha's Vineyard. Then there is the temporary population of all the colleges in Mass. There simply are not enough voters in the rest of Mass. to make up for the overwhelming advantage that the Dems have in the eastern Dem enclaves.

Mr. Beatty seems to have an excellent background, and would seem to be a good candidate. But we are talking about Mass. here. I expect that he will go down in flames, as is the usual fate of Repub candidates for state wide office in Mass. In fact, I personally wish that all the Dems that have moved to New Hampshire would move back to Mass. In time to vote for Kerry. That way we in New Hampshire could have our state back, even though it would increase the vote by which Mr. Beatty loses, we might save Sen. Sununu in New Hampshire.

p>Now if you really want to do something constructive, why don't you write an in depth piece on Mr. Russell, who is challenging Haditha Jack Murtha in Penn. He is a great candidate, and actually stands a chance of knocking off that vile old reprobate ex-Marine. (Yes, I know there are only "former" Marines, but there are a handful that are so vile that those of us that have had a connection to the USMC do consider them "ex-Marines.")

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