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• BrianO | Jun 06, 2012, 02:57 PM EDT

  BYthehay, what do you know of Massachusetts politics?

• Bythebay | Jun 06, 2012, 02:44 PM EDT

  Romney will cripple the US the same way he crippled the State of Massachusetts when he was Governor. He couldn't even run for a second term he was so disliked.

• Bythebay | Jun 06, 2012, 02:42 PM EDT

  The description of the Kennedys in this article defies credibility. The Kennedys did nothing of that, they were self-serving, spoiled, useless except for their own glorification and power.

• The Waltons | Jun 06, 2012, 01:08 PM EDT

  Could never be a Kennedy. He's not rich white trash, doesn't cheat on his wife, hasn't killed anyone and isn't a drug addict. Can you believe it's been almost three years since Ted Kennedy last had a drink. I guess with the right motivation, anyone can change.

• IrishAndProud | Jun 05, 2012, 09:57 PM EDT

  And thank goodness Mitt is no Kennedy. That's not an insult, but rather a compliment (though JFK would be a conservative, by today's standards). Even so, Mitt is still more like the Kennedys than Barack Obama -- something that can also be said of every other U.S. President(but which is only denied by those with white guilt). At any rate, if things don't change Mitt Romney is the next President of the United States; additionally, I'm quite happy to report tonight that the Democrats have just suffered their latest defeat, in Wisconsin; they couldn't unseat Scott Walker (the same state they couldn't win control of in last year's elections, either...and which will likely swing away from Obama this fall -- like a good number of OTHER states he carried in a fluke).

• Dubnorth | Jun 05, 2012, 11:09 AM EDT

  You are dead right he is no Kennedy. Happily married over 40 years. Never cheated on his wife, never took advantage of interns, or told them to "service" his friends, never left a girl friend to drown, while he called his lawyer instead of 911. Never accused of cheating on an exam at Harvard, and completed am MBA and JD at the same time. Actually worked for a living in the private sector, something the Kennedys never did, and made money for his clients, his investors , which included a number of Union Pension Funds. There are retired union workers enjoying nice pensions because of Mitt Romney and Bain. You are dead right he is no Kennedy. Oh yes he also saved the Olympics from bankruptcy. He is definately not a Kennedy.

• peggydf | Jun 05, 2012, 10:35 AM EDT

  Romney is a person who lacks both commitment and integrity. Regardless of how he chooses characterizes himself (and those charictarizations often change weekly), most of us see him for the sham that he is.

• Fran Connor | Jun 05, 2012, 10:27 AM EDT

  If JFK were alive today, he'd be a republican. Can you imagine a democrat sayin "Ask not what your country can do for you..."?

• BrianO | Jun 05, 2012, 10:12 AM EDT

  Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased – not a reduced – flow of revenues to the federal government.” – John F. Kennedy, Jan. 17, 1963, annual budget message to the Congress, fiscal year 1964-------------------------------The largest single barrier to full employment of our manpower and resources and to a higher rate of economic growth is the unrealistically heavy drag of federal income taxes on private purchasing power, initiative and incentive.” – John F. Kennedy, Jan. 24, 1963, special message to Congress on tax reduction and reform

• BrianO | Jun 05, 2012, 09:53 AM EDT

  No problem sean, just pointing out the donation even if the charity is not deemed important enough to some, it was donated which differs him from most, certainly from me. For all that want to hate him for having wealth, there is a lesson: attend school with a reason, study hard and achieve outstanding grades and you will succeed on your own.

• seanomelb | Jun 05, 2012, 12:57 AM EDT

  Now BrianO don't verbal me. I merely stated a fact which you agree with.I would think more hihly of him and the world would be a better place if he gave the cash to a real charity like doctors without borders or join some of his fellow millionaires who're trying to eradicate diseases in third world countries

• irishpjk | Jun 04, 2012, 11:49 PM EDT

  Thank God for telling me he is no Kennedy, when I read he was it made me worry that I might not be able vote at.

• borefield | Jun 04, 2012, 10:40 PM EDT

  Cahir, please stop making such a fool of yourself. Mitt Romney inherited honest money from his father, unlike Kennedy money from bootleg booze and fleecing poor Irish tenants. Thank God he is not like the Kennedy's, any of them, jack played around with women in every town in every state , Robert had a real cruel streak in him, Ted was instrumental in the drowning of a young woman while he saved his own skin, impressive attributes.? I think not. The Kennedy legacy of destruction and power still goes on as recent as two weeks ago. Romney was making a comparison to JFK in broad political terms.

• BrianO | Jun 04, 2012, 10:22 PM EDT

  Romney donated his inheritance to Brigham young university. But if he donated it to the religion of his choice that would be his choice. Nice how tolerant the tolerant left is of people they do not agree with.

• hollabackgurl | Jun 04, 2012, 10:17 PM EDT

  Mitt Romney still won't say whether he supports a Senate bill to ensure equal pay for women, so there's your first clue girls.

• 71regiment | Jun 04, 2012, 09:58 PM EDT

  Thank goodness Mitt is not like the Kennedy's. They all inherited a lot of money, money that was accumulated under questionable circumstances. Did any of the brothers really have a job and produce anything? But most of all how quick we forget who was behind the 1965 reforms of US Immigration, that ended the ability of people from Ireland to freely come here. You can thank the Kennedy boys for that.

• christilcaugh | Jun 04, 2012, 09:22 PM EDT

  Mitt, you are NO Jack Kennedy!

• seanomelb | Jun 04, 2012, 08:45 PM EDT

  Brian do you mean the millions he donated to the Mormon Church to build more temples some charity.

• BrianO | Jun 04, 2012, 07:19 PM EDT

  Romney was asked if a person with wealth could relate to people, in this context he gave examples of other presidents who were wealthy, that the likes of Cahir apparently approve of. An honest treatment of his answer isn't expected, and it is funny how the anti Romney forces are grasping at any straw to try to attack. Jack Kennedy was right about many things, and I do not hold his inheritance against him, why do people hold Romney's inheritance against him? Is it because he donated it to charity?

• seabeetom | Jun 04, 2012, 07:14 PM EDT

  Thank GOD for that.

• seanomelb | Jun 04, 2012, 06:53 PM EDT

  Mitt flip flop Romney is not good enough to shine the Kennedy's shoes.He's the architect of Obamacacre now he's against it. a real right wing moron if ever there was one

• eiriamach | Jun 04, 2012, 06:52 PM EDT

  To Brolaur's quotation from scripture, I'd like to add, from Robt J Miller's Annotated SV translation, Luke 6:20-21, 24-25. When Romney told Americans that we should "congratulate" people like him, who make great wealth in business, I was reminded of this SV translation of the Beatitudes: "Congratulations, you poor! God's domain belongs to you. Congratulations, you hungry! You will have a feast. Congratulations, you who weep now! You will laugh.... Damn you rich! You already have your consolation. Damn you who are well fed now! You will know hunger. Damn you who laugh now! You will learn to grieve." It's true what they say of us Americans-- we insist on separating church and state, but we can't resist mixing religion and politics.

• jamthecat | Jun 04, 2012, 06:31 PM EDT

  Amazing how the haters crawl out from under their rocks to protect a sociopathic rich kid's sense of entitlement, even when it means to their own detriment. No...not amazing...pathetic and diseased. Mittens don't care 'bout nobody but himself and his rich buddies; the rest of us...it's survival of the fittest. The Kennedys came from a criminal father, but they made up for it in far more ways than Mitt could ever think of doing. He's an embarrassment to the country, and those who follow him hate everything America used to stand for.

• mairint | Jun 04, 2012, 06:17 PM EDT

  Oh great, there he goes again pushing the homosexual campaign..as if Ted K. ever nursed a dying AIDS patient like the Mother Teresa's little sisters. The homosexual sexual vagaries would have had some parallels with Ted's lifestyles. Unfortunately the U.S. has no choice now if they are to salvage the role of President from the low's it has now sunk to. Do all you Obama fans want your children to be indoctrinated in the multi gender life 'choices'? Just watch the curriculum being infiltrated into the educational system from primary levels up. Do you know the activist that Obama has put in charge? Get real people.

• Brolaur | Jun 04, 2012, 06:00 PM EDT

  Mitt believes in the bible esp. the verse "The poor we shall always have with us". There it is; Jesus said it. So don't worry about them!

• AengusOg | Jun 04, 2012, 05:36 PM EDT

  Chappaquiddick, Viet Nam, Bay of Pigs, Marilyn Monroe, carpet bagging, drinking, & womanizing are not earmarks of productive lives. Espousal of high ideals sometimes cloak low-life human beings, aka politicians.

• faberm1 | Jun 04, 2012, 05:08 PM EDT

  THANK GOD IN HEAVEN Mitt Romney is not like these two Kennedys. I hope he is like NONE of them. He is not a womanizer, thug, cheater, two-faced politician or a phony "church-goer". I didn't vote for Mitt in the Primary (I voted for Ron Paul)), but Ted and John F. Kennedy were criminals like their father and America deserves far better than them. As an American I am ashamed of the Kennedys.

• greensod | Jun 04, 2012, 04:56 PM EDT

  Not a veteran in the family,or whiskey in the glass.I dont think so.

• acemaker | Jun 04, 2012, 04:15 PM EDT

  He's very much not like the Kennedys, that's why he's got my vote. What kind of cool aid is the guy who wrote this drinking. He's read to much IC.

• BrianO | Jun 04, 2012, 03:28 PM EDT

  not allowed to comment

• eiriamach | Jun 04, 2012, 03:06 PM EDT

  PP, "preferential treatment and quota status" is not the American way, no one is asking for either preferential treatment or quotas, and it isn't happening. Equality under the law and civil tolerance are the American way, and these are happening. The Kennedys contributed to that heritage of rights and tolerance. Romney opposes the march of progress that motivated each Kennedy. In 2008, Romney compared himself to Obama, LOL. Recently, in reply to criticism of his Etch-a-Sketch persona, he has compared himself to Reagan: "It’s exactly what Ronald Regan did. As governor, he was adamantly pro-choice. He became pro-life as he experienced life. And the same thing happened with George H.W. Bush.” It's too much to hope for that Romney will become more like the Kennedy brothers politically, but maybe he could become more like Reagan and flip-flop again, just a little.

• BrianO | Jun 04, 2012, 03:04 PM EDT

  typed a reply four times.

• BrianO | Jun 04, 2012, 02:59 PM EDT

  test

• alisaann | Jun 04, 2012, 02:57 PM EDT

  PhultiePhan: Romney does NOT RESPECT EVERYONE....if he was , he would ALLOW everyone in the country to MARRY...and NOT say he plans to have a FEDERAL BAN against SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.....i suggest you pull your head OUT of the sand. alisa

• alisaann | Jun 04, 2012, 02:53 PM EDT

  i have to agree with the author of this story....mitt is NOTHING like the KENNEDY BROTHERS....they were for the people...they've done things to HELP those who need it.....mitt wants to KEEP people from HAVING "EQUAL CIVIL RIGHTS"....always using the bible for his reasons.....we DON'T MAKE LAWS ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE....RELIGION HAS NO PLACE IN POLITICS. ALISA NEELY

• MegK311 | Jun 04, 2012, 02:40 PM EDT

  Mitt Romney was not my first choice for President but he is a much better than the alternative. I am glad that he is not like the Kennedys. There is not a lot to admire about the Kennedy men they have been involved in many unsavory situations over the years. Robbie69, who cares how many wives his grandfathers had we are not voting for them. He has one wife and appears to have a sound marriage. BTW where is the proof that his grandfathers had several wives.

• johhnyb | Jun 04, 2012, 02:25 PM EDT

  And Romney's connection to Reagan and Helms is?

• hollabackgurl | Jun 04, 2012, 02:20 PM EDT

  PhlutiePhan, tell the truth, the gays have never tried to force anything down your throat. From the sound of you, I bet no one has.

• PhlutiePhan | Jun 04, 2012, 02:01 PM EDT

  So, why shouldn't Ted Kennedy espouse the gay community. He was a profligate himself. In the sexual flings of the Kennedys, thank God that Romney is stable. Romney respects everyone. However, gays should not get preferential treatment and quota status to foist their lifestyle on the rest of society.

• irishcoffeekid | Jun 04, 2012, 02:00 PM EDT

  Romney would be a smarter man if he didnt name drop names he can't even walk in the shadow of - he's a muppet and he's making himself look more like the stuffed dummy by stupidly declaring himself to be like the Kennedys! What he's proving is he's a total wannabee and can't make it on the back of his own name. I wouldn't vote for him if he was the last man standing!!

• edmundburke | Jun 04, 2012, 01:27 PM EDT

  ==History shows, the Kennedy's worked tirelessly to promote social justice and equal opportunity every day of their political lives.== Hmmm, Cahir, would you include, since you are relying on "History", Joe Kennedy's 1940 proclamations that Hitler would be ruling Europe and that we should all just get along with it? Or Bobby Kennedy's work supporting Red-hunting Senator Joseph McCarthy as one of his Congressional staffers? Or Jack Kennedy's reluctance to confront Southern Democratic Governors over racism in the South? Or Jack and Bobby's authorizing clandestine assassination of Castro? The list goes on. The Kennedys were in no way as politically pure as your grand statement proclaims.

• BrianO | Jun 04, 2012, 01:24 PM EDT

  @hollabackgurl, again disappointed in your attack as your facts, normally logical, are woefully incorrect, Romney DONATED his inheritance, He graduated BYU with a 3.97 GPA, he was accepted to harvard with a dual major of law and business was cum laude in law and the top five percent in business. Before this he spent a year as a missionary in France and by the way was almost killed in a car accident. He is still married to his wife whom he married at the age of 21. Ask Robert Gay what he thinks of mitt Romney and you will hear a story that's fit for hollywood. As for vulture, checkout Staples not a bad company for massachusetts to have.

• Sheilah | Jun 04, 2012, 12:53 PM EDT

  Not a veteran for sure. Nor are any of his 5 sons.

• BulldogMania | Jun 04, 2012, 12:52 PM EDT

  And thank the good Lord that he is NOT! Please recall that the Kennedy administration popularity at the time of his assassination was under 40% and for very good reason. The nation and the world are still suffering from policies brought to bear on a hard working populace by these three men. I respect and admire the Kennedy family...but I don't agree with any of their politics.

• knugent15 | Jun 04, 2012, 12:37 PM EDT

  It is disgraceful that this publication continues to employ you. You are amazing biased and you expect everyone to be ultra-accepting of your opinions yet you have no respect for anyone who disagrees with you! A typical hypocritical liberal.

• hollabackgurl | Jun 04, 2012, 11:44 AM EDT

  Mitt Romney inherited his money from his millionaire father. He made being a vulture capitalist who preyed on other people's life work to enrich himself. He created wealth for himself and his shareholders, but the people working in the companies he pirated got screwed. Even in Massachusetts he didn't create jobs as Governor. The buck always stops in his pocket.

• hollabackgurl | Jun 04, 2012, 11:16 AM EDT

  I get Cahir you are for Obama.--In any case the comparison came from a question about being wealthy and being president, so the response was to give examples of wealthy presidents. You should a least try to hide your bias.

• DLW12183 | Jun 04, 2012, 11:05 AM EDT

  You are correct-he is no Kennedy. Doesn't have as much money as the Kennedys, made his own money, doesn't have a mistress (s) on the side and not a big drinker like most of the Kennedys.

• Robbie69 | Jun 04, 2012, 10:43 AM EDT

  Romney says he is for "traditional marrige" and I guess you have to look at his own family history to know what he means. His grandfather had seven wives, and his great-grandfather had 13. His great-grandfather even abandoned the USA and moved to Mexico so that he could continue with his polygamy. So much for traditional marriage!

• bern1952 | Jun 04, 2012, 10:38 AM EDT

  He should not compare himself to the kennedys. He and his family worked hard to make an honest living. They did not get their wealth from boot legging. He is a soild citizen without any scandals, e.g. women, wine etc.