Biography

Kevin McCarthy is a practicing attorney and small business owner on the North Shore of Boston. He is a lifelong resident of Massachusetts and has been a registered Democrat since his age of majority. He took his degree at one of those private "elitist" New England liberal arts colleges. Mr. McCarthy drives a Volvo and has been known to eat granola. He is however, allergic to Kool-Aid and therefore, refuses to drink it.

Original Blog - Palin's Positively Putrid Political Pals

One always has to wonder about the wisdom (if any) of Sarah Palin. You will remember that the laughingly under-educated former half-term ex-quitting of Governor of Alaska was incapable of naming any newspapers or magazines that she currently reads; did not know what the "Bush Doctrine" was; did not know that South Africa was a country and thought that the bank bailout was "to help those that are concerned about health care reform". She could not name a single Supreme Court case other than Roe v Wade. She also invented "death panels" which were deemed the "biggest lie of 2009" and believed that Vladimir Putin spent all his free time "rearing his head" in the "airspace of Alaska". In simple terms, Sarah Palin has proven to be a moron.

Perhaps in an effort to redeem her public image, Sarah Palin has shied away from any substantive discussion of domestic or foreign policy during the last year or so. Instead of potentially embarrassing herself yet again by revealing a true lack of knowledge, she has elected to spend her time endorsing Teapublican candidates for office. Her plan has failed. The radically nutty right-wing conservatives upon whom Palin has bestowed her blessing are as crazy or crazier than "Mama Grizzly". Consider these examples.

Clint Didier: Teapublican candidate for a Washington U.S. Senate seat. Didier ran on a platform of opposing what he called "government handouts". Apparently however he did not oppose government handouts to himself, as he received farm subsidies, for wheat and corn, [that] amounted to $103,888. Didier was defeated in the Republican primary election.

Nikki Haley: Haley is the Teapublican nominee in the South Carolina gubernatorial election. The State newspaper has raised questions about unethical behavior that led Haley to obtain an unwarranted $100,000 fundraising job and a further $42,000 from a state contractor while she was a state legislator. Before obtaining this income under questionable circumstances Haley's personal financial situation was collapsing, with half of her family's income paying off interest on her mortgage. After these revelations her numbers have decreased dramatically in recent polling. Much like the most recent Republican Governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, it has been alleged that Haley has had at least two extramarital affairs.

Carly Fiorina: Fiorina is the Republican nominee for a California U.S. Senate seat. She was formerly the disgraced CEO of Hewlett-Packard Company. She was forced to resign from the company after nearly driving it into the ground in 2005. In April 2009, the business magazine web site Condé Nast Portfolio listed Fiorina as one of "The 20 Worst American CEOs of All Time". Fiorina is hoping to garner a lot of votes this November but The Los Angeles Times research of public records indicated Fiorina had failed to vote in most every election that she has been eligible to cast a vote. This week Fiorina publicly stated that she believes that Sarah Palin is qualified to be President of the United States. 'Nuff said.

Entry One - What are the top 3 reasons Scott Brown has misled MA voters?

Turn Out The Lights: For Scott Brown The Tea-Party Is Over

Remember back in January when Republicans and Tea Partiers were giddy over the election of Scott Brown to "Ted Kennedy's" Massachusetts Senate seat? Well, something funny happened on the way to the 2012 Republican nomination for President. Scott Brown has demonstrated that he is not the dependable conservative rubber-stamp that the Teapublicans thought they had elected. Indeed, the Republicans' "Poster Child for Massachusetts Relevance" has misled his supporters on at least three occasions.

First, he never had that opportunity to cast his oft-referenced 41st vote against Health Care Reform. The Democrats outmaneuvered Brown and denied him the chance to become a Republican hero when they passed the law via the reconciliation and modification procedure that required only 51 Senate votes. In fact, the historical record will reflect that Brown's first meaningful Senate vote was cast in favor of a Democratic Party jobs bill that was bitterly opposed by Teapublicans.

Secondly, in May, the clothing-challenged former centerfold model broke with the Republicans once again and voted in favor of cloture on the Democratic Party's Financial Reform bill which stymied the GOP's filibuster efforts and assured the bill's passage into law. In that instance, Brown's was the decisive 60th vote, albeit for the wrong party. A huge victory for the Democrats and another betrayal of the conservative Tea Party/Republican cause.

Finally, Scott Brown demonstrated a clear lack of judgment during the 2010 mid-term elections. In what appears to have been an attempt by Brown to mend fences with the Grand Old Party, he endorsed the full slate of Massachusetts Republicans. Problem is, that list included two individuals with highly questionable character flaws. Bill Hudak was exposed as an extreme radical by means of his yard sign which characterized President Barack Obama as a mass-murdering Islamic terrorist. Jeff Perry of course, was the former State Police supervisor who allegedly failed to intervene as a subordinate officer illegally strip-searched a 14-year-old girl in his presence. Scott Brown's irresponsible endorsement of those individuals called his own judgment into question as he chose party loyalty over sober character assessment. Both candidates were decisively defeated and Brown's influence within both his own party and his constituency was diminished.

The once invincible Scott Brown is now vulnerable. Sarah Palin's endorsement and the resultant influx of out of state Tea Party campaign contributions were largely responsible for Brown's surprise election victory. Brown in turn, was expected to repay that investment by means of voting along the Tea Party line, and Palin counted upon Brown's future loyalty. Brown however, deceived the Tea Partiers by often voting alongside Democrats and he double-crossed their idol Palin not only by failing to appear at her Boston Tea Party rally last April, but also by announcing on "The Today Show" that he would endorse Mitt Romney for president. Suffice to say, the Teapublicans are unlikely to mimic George W. Bush by saying, "Brownie... you're doing a heck of a job".

Entry Two - What are the top 3 reasons why Sarah Palin should be the next President of the United States?

Sarah Palin should be President for three reasons. First, we live in a celebrity driven society and Palin is much more of a celebrity than Barack Obama was when she criticized him for the same in 2008. Secondly, as "Mama Grizzly" Sharron "Fluoride In Our Water Is A Communist Plot" Angle warned; Tea Partiers might resort to their "2nd Amendment remedies" should someone other than Palin be elected. Finally, Palin's election would culminate the "dumbing-down" of America. Our reality-television obsessed population would be graced with a President that appears on a reality show, a President's daughter that appears on a reality show and the President's grandson's father appearing on a reality show. A trifecta of First Family idiocy.

THE WRECK OF THE SARAH L. PALIN
(sung to "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald ")
The legend lives on from the North Slope on down
To the town of Wasilla, Alaska
Sarah Palin did say, "I'll be famous some day"
When she did it became a disaster

She met up with her fate sometime in '88
When her TV career was a failin'
And everyone knew, as her parents did too
She would soon be the "Bride of Todd Palin"

Long before she did wed, she conceived in his bed
That was the end of her abstinency
While laid out on her back, she gave birth to son Track
The result of an unwed pregnancy

She was now in a lurch cuz of her right-wing church
But she carried on without a care
She had a beehive hairdo, but had nothing to do
That all changed when she became the Mayor

She appointed some crooks then she banned some good books
No one lasted if they weren't on her team
Wasilla's deficit grew, kids fired-up on home-brew
The town became a year-round drug-spree scene

She became the next Gov and to show the state love
She proposed to unite remote shore banks
But once in a bind she politely declined
To that bridge now she said, "Thanks, but no thanks"

John McCain now you see had to choose a VP
His campaign was certainly failin'
He wanted a she that was trés "mavericky"
So he chose Alaska's Sarah Palin.

But poor press reviews of her live interviews
With Couric and Gibson oft replayed
Showed she couldn't spar with the nightly news stars
Let alone outperform Tina Fey

The election was lost and poor Sarah was tossed
From her seat on "The Straight Talk Express"
She went home and did pose in her RNC clothes
But her governorship was in distress

She had enough of it, so she just up and quit
She went "Rogue" and then joined the Tea Party
Health Reform they chastised with her "death panel" lies
They're as clueless as Laurel and Hardy

Karl Rove gave her some lip about endorsement slips
When her "lil grizzlies" took such a nailin'
But her character flaws will be the final straw
For the wreck known as Sarah L. Palin