Echoes and such like...

The nice thing about writing the Chimes at Midnight is the sure knowledge that very few people are actually reading it.
If the "blogosphere ecosystem" is to be believed this teensy page's popularity runs somewhere behind the "Jesus for President" campaign weblog.
So when a local columnist actually agrees with me on a subject, I can happily attribute the confluence to serendipity and move on with a light heart.
Such was the case this morning with Joan Vennochi, who has abruptly decided that the Governor's tortured permutations on the subject of gay marriage are a function of his growing appetite for higher office.
Waaa-aal sheee-it...ah told yuh just the same over a month ago!
Yay for serendipity!
Hell, gay marriage is not only the debut of Romney's presidential dementia but also concurrently the early demise of his "reform" program in the Commonwealth.
One might even say that a steadfast opposition to gay marriage and Romney's ambition is a unholy but not unexpected set of nuptials all on it's own.
Whatever happened to defending people's rights?
Whatever happened to enforcing a law you personally disagree with?
All vanished under the wintery blasts from a few mouthy out of state wowsers who have taken up stations on Boston Common.
Romney saw these people with their inflexibility, fanaticism and ignorance as future Romney serfs and voters in every way.
And not for nothing but Joan Vennocchi ought to be smart enough to realize Romney was a glib, ambitious, spineless opportunist back in campaign 2002....
Alas a charmless naivete' characterizes local political reportage these days.
I realize that I am repeating myself here....but as any columnist will tell you, repetition is the soul of punditry.