Marcia, Marcia, Marcia

Posted by: Tristan

US Representative Patrick Kennedy (D-RI) was at a political rally attended by President Barack Obama on Sunday in a political race to determine who will replace the late Ted Kennedy and become Massachusetts’ next Senator.

According to Kennedy, it’s a tight race between someone called Marcia Coakley and former President George W Bush.  Actually Kennedy knows that state Senator Scott Brown is running as the Republican, but it’s hard to tell by listening to him.

“If you think there’s magic out there and things can be turned around overnight, then you would vote for someone who could promise you that, like Scott Brown,” Kennedy said. “If you don’t, if you know that it takes eight years for George Bush and his cronies to put our country into this hole … then you know we have a lot of digging to do, but some work needs to be done and this president’s in the process of doing it and we need to get Marcia Coakley to help him to do that.”

Oddly enough, there is no Marcia Coakley on the Massachusetts ballot, only Attorney General Martha Coakley.  Hotline On Call reports that Patrick Kennedy repeatedly referred to Martha Coakley as “Marcia”.

(Curiously, Kennedy mentioned Coakley repeatedly during his remarks to reporters, each time referring to her as “Marcia,” not “Martha.”)

Misstatements like this are not uncommon among the Kennedy clan. so it’s unclear if Patrick couldn’t get the name of the candidate he was rallying for because he knew she was going to lose and wasn’t worth the effort, because he’s back on the sauce or because he’s just trying to imitate his old man.