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“We’ve reached out to the Massachusetts Department of Revenue and made clear that, whether owed or not, we intend to pay the equivalent taxes as if the boat’s home-port were currently in Massachusetts,” Kerry said in a statement released this afternoon. “That payment is being made promptly.”

Instead of taking a stand against taxes so high it pays to berth your yacht in another state, he, or rather his wife, ponies up with the big bucks. Still not a hero!

On several news shows, Newt Gingrich has said he will make a decision around February 2011 as whether to pursue a run for 2012. Most likely his negatives are too high to ever get elected. Largely because the media painted him so badly, which is why Sarah Palin still has so much negative press. They tried it with Reagan but it didn’t work and he swept all the states but one in 1984. If someone is targeted with meaningless press, you know they are feared. Some one needs to figure out how to counteract all those media smears. But a mama grizzly just might be able to do it.

Newt Gingrich is famous for “nationalizing” the 1994 elections using the Contract with America. If any year ever called for a similar strategy, this is the year. We do have the Contract from America and Paul Ryan’s Roadmap for America’s Future , but the leaders of the party seem to be missing in action. Truth is, both parties should be required to publish the main three to five things they wish to accomplish during their two year House term.

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