Gwan over to "Kerry Healey: Out of Touch" for proper odds on all the yaps, dubs, freaks, chimps, wimps, gimps and sundry weirdos La Healey is conjuring with as a running mate.
I'd offer a hotlink but now that I'm a gentleman of leisure, this blog is updated from my Mac at home which blogger only grudgingly supports.
The pickin's are slim over on the other side Lt. Governor-wise mah friends.
Pete Blute is a drunken nut, Scott Brown a charmless nonentity with a daughter currently more famous than he, Dan Grabauskas is gay and ALL his hard work may been blown sky high if the MBTA goes on strike...Mihos is wallowing in a fugue state, whilst Wayne Budd and Ralph Martin having said no to Tom Reilly are too sensible to light out for destruction- Junction at the side of Kerry Healey.
At this point, who is left? Ayla Brown's best pal from Homeroom? Steve Pierce? A golem made of Frank Hatch's unquiet clay?
I'd throw Jay Severin onto the pile, but alas he is not a Massachusetts resident...which didn't stop Romney in 2002 but who thinks lightning can strike twice eh?
Kerry Healey has been tacking leftwards these last few weeks in a feeble half hearted way...but thats been forced on her as there is no room on the right in the Commonwealth given the deep spiritual and political isolation of our profoundly confused and conservative viceregal governor.
And so on she prattles about the morning after pill and other fortuitous bromides.
Humble Elias' gut is, it'll be Brown as colorless and underwhelming as he is, Scott has little baggage and a sweetly notorious daughter who is on her way to Boston College if she doesn't land a recording contract.
The notion that Brown's candidacy leaves a state senate seat to be defended hold little water. The State GOP has been pretty much a flag of convenience and a fund raising PO box for decades now, selling out the legislative wing of the party to hold onto the corner office is an old established ritual. Besides, just how long can Brown hold onto his seat anyway? Two terms three?
Better to take a flyer with Kerry Healey and if it all goes to smash he can lay some claim to a statewide nomination two or four years from now.
In bygone eras when mighty men and women strode the earth, crap like this would qualify Brown as little more than a court jester at the tables of Valhalla, but in these debased times its a ticket to ride high wide and handsome.
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