Return of the Merry Mendicant...

The Boston Globe reports that former governor and ambassador to Canada Argeo Paul Cellucci will resign his post and return to Massachusetts come January 2005.
Oh Ghod be still my beating heart, Penniless Paul Cellucci is coming back just in time to run for the U.S. Senate!
Well, I knew the state GOP would have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to come up with a candidate if Kerry wins, but I never thought they'd have to go as far as Toronto.
The mathematics here are simple, Romney can't run himself because it wouldn't look right (DON'T rule him out true believers...selfish sociopaths always find a way in)...so IF a senate race is scheduled for next winter, then Governor Decaf needs a republican with name recognition, fund-raising ability and if possible someone with statewide bona fides.
That is a very short list indeed, comprised of Jane "Jingle Money" Swift who ran as Cellucci's Lt. Governor in 1998, and former state treasurer "Jerky" Joe Malone whose record has been subsequently tarnished by allegations of petty thievery among his staff.
Given this tattered and inane line up, a Cellucci candidacy makes robust sense. Granted Penniless Paul has but 20,000 left in his political account but a man who is used to fund-raising for his kid's college tuition and his own political races won't have too much trouble getting up the cashola.
In some ways Paul would make the perfect GOP senator, he is utterly spineless....rumor has it he used to all but hide when the House and Senate Leadership walked down the hallways in the State House-a notion pleasing to Bill Frist no doubt.
His chronic indebtedness (allegedly covered by friendly bankers in his hometown of Hudson Mass.) makes him a potential playa in a Washington ruled by deficit spending social conservative whackos.
Face it, the man's time may have come...again.
I wonder though, remember back in campaign 1998 when Paul ran on a pro-death penalty platform?
Given the R.C.C.'s opposition to the death penalty, will the Arch Bishop make ominous rumblings about denying the former Governor the Eucharist?
Probably not, the local catholic hierarchy takes a remarkably broad general view of things when republican's stray from the church's teachings.
Still it'd be fun to see if it happened...Cellucci is such a tepid hack he'd probably keel over from sheer shock.
Sick
Demented
Typical...