Hey Patrick Kennedy, the joke is really on you

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Patrick Kennedy calls Scott Brown's win a joke

by Howie Carr
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE!
Monday, Feb. 8, 2009

Patrick “Patches” Kennedy is calling somebody else a “joke”?

Does the phrase pot calling the kettle black come to mind? Or how about what the late Edward McCormack said to Patches’ dad, Edward Moore Kennedy, in his first campaign for the U.S. Senate back in 1962: “If your name were Edward Moore, your candidacy would be a joke.”

Patches, if your name were - no, I take that back. Patches, you are a joke, period. You are the runt of the litter of the runt of the litter. And the applejack didn’t fall far from the tree.

Scott Brown should have waited longer to get sworn into office? Hey Patches, your dad got sworn in the day after he was handed the Senate seat.

When Patches got into politics, the family sent down handlers to, let’s be blunt, take care of him. One of them used to work for George Keverian at the State House, another was in the soft-drink business in western Mass. They’re both dead.

Running for re-election? He has a 62 percent unfavorable rating statewide in Rhode Island. Those are Deval Patrick-type numbers. But that’s the least of Patches’ problems. The wheels have come off. Patches doesn’t need a campaign manager, he needs a guardian. Just ask Marsha Coakley.

Forget all that stuff that happened a few years back - the crash in the CVS parking lot, almost running over some Capitol cops in D.C. on his way, allegedly, to a 3 a.m. vote.

This goes a lot further.

During the famous “traditional Easter weekend” in Palm Beach in 1991, Patches and Teddy ducked out of St. Edwards and walked down to Chuck & Harold’s on Royal Poinciana Way.

It was 11:45 a.m. I saw the bar tab. In a half-hour, Teddy quaffed three Bloody Marys and Patches had three Long Island iced teas. This is not long after he’d gotten out of a detox center for his cocaine addiction, and he’s slopping down five-shot drinks, before noon. He’s never been all there.

And to go after a guy like Scott Brown, who came up the hard way . . . well, that’s Patches for you. OK, his father’s gone and he’s sad. Stipulated. But where does he come up with these absurd comments, saying that seven out of 10 of Brown’s votes were from union families?

Patches, do you realize that at least one or two of the Governor’s councilors got calls from pinky-ring thugs this week asking them to take a powder before the certification, so the hacks could claim there wasn’t a quorum and hold up Brown’s swearing-in?

Enjoy these last months in public life, Patches. The joke’s on you.