and true to form The Globe's Scot Lehigh can't seem to say anything sensible about it. Take this howler from today's column for example:
Patrick does make a pretty good first impression. The danger for him, however, is that he ends up as this year's Robert Reich, for here's an instructive rule in politics: Be skeptical about candidates who, without any real electoral experience, parachute into tricky political terrain to try for the top job.
You have to admit, the use of the term "parachute" is outright laughable in this context since Lehigh's boy Mitt Romney practically hijacked an airliner to get back to Boston once Mihos did his infamous poll back in 2002. Scot then goes on to cap it all with this howler:
For starters, he'll need to display a recognition that though the fiscal crisis is over, the state still faces lean times, which means that program growth will have to come in moderate steps, not liberal leaps. He'll have to avoid being co-opted or cowed by the party's constituency groups. He'll need to demonstrate that he's politically adept enough to work with State House Democrats, but that he has the backbone to stand up to them as well. He'll have to show that he understands how important standards like the MCAS are to improving education.
In other words, Lehigh is advising Deval Patrick to look act and sound just like that ace parachutist from Utah, Mitt Romney. That would be the same Governor who is the the author & proud producer of the Commonwealth's current state of psychic humiliation and public stagnation. Poor Scot he just can't give up that weird gooey blathering moderate republican ideology that infests practically the columnistas on Morrissey Blvd.
Good lord the whole Boston Globe editorial page is naught but a clown act these days, fit to entertain my nieces and nephews but utterly trivial in every other respect.
Well since no one else will advise Patrick, permit Humble Elias the offer a few words of warning...Scot Lehigh is a yap as his his whole crowd, treat him and the rest with genial disdain, If necessary build some populist props by railing against out of touch opinion leaders in Herald Square and Morrissey Blvd. What you do DON'T read the op-ed page, those dope couldn't poor piss out a boot if the instructions were printed on the side!
Good luck Deval you will need it.
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God, that burns me up. Scot Lehigh is rewriting history to make Bob Reich look like some kind of nutjob who couldn't break single digits in the '02 primary.
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