Ideological notes to the fall campaign in Massachusetts:

The fall campaign for the state legislature is slowly taking shape:
At this point it seems clear that Romney's handpicked collection of GOP candidates, bindlestiffs, video store night managers, unemployed consultants, and pantry boys from campaign 2002...will be running on a three pronged program:
1.) The Death Penalty. Today's proposal for a DNA based level of certitude in capital cases is naught but a harbinger of bloodthirsty rhetoric to come. No doubt the Kolobian Viceroy and his hand-picked sock puppet will be whistlestopping in villages like Menotomy atop a portable gallows.
2.) Fag-bashing. Initially tarted up in lofty syrupy phrases like "the defense of the sacred rite of marriage"...but as the campaign lurches into October look for the usual porcine squeals and grunts from Governor Decaf and his toadies about "queers and nancy-boyz".
3.) You know it, you love it...olde reliable the blunderbuss of an issue that tamed and bankrupted a proud republic, yew guessed it A TAX CUT.
Oh that'll jut be the crowning touch...Romney atop his gallows promising dire punishment for the Commonwealth's dykes and homos. When he isn't fagbashing The Man from Kolob will be promising to make money by way of tax cuts rain from the heavens liken unto the biblical deluge.

Don't know what the response to this should be quite yet...but it's pretty clear to me that Mitt is running all out and state wide again.
In part to restrict the opportunities for Kerry loyalists to campaign for our guy out of state...but also even the least pick up of votes in the Great and General Court can be spun into a huge victory for "team reform".
On the other hand, the municipalities are strapped for cash with more unfunded state mandates being cooked up all the time...the tax cut may seem like an odd ill timed proposal if people start counting the pot-holes on the way home from work.
The death penalty is inevitable in Massachusetts even if our passive aggressive archbishop speaks out against it.
My main problem with it is operation, Romney is such a lowlife skank do we really want him with the power of life and death over anyone?
As for the fagbashing...that has to be met head on, and it's not a question of candidates who are willing to engage it requires the plain people of Massachusetts gay and straight to stand up and be counted.
Overall it's a mixed bag as platforms go...a devisive social issue, usual demagoguery about crime, and the glittering lure of free money.
Not sure how well any of it will play in Romney's beloved suburbs...and moreover these "Romneyettes" he has recruited for the campaign are a green, weird, and lackwitted bunch.
A lot of things could condition this, no one is running state wide save Bush and Kerry and there are no big ballot initiatives that I've heard off...the state legislative races might not generate much heat from now until November.
That may not work to Mitt's advantage...he needs a noisy sense of outrage to for the above platform to work.
Well we will see.