Humble Elias doesn't blame Charlie Baker one bit for

skipping out on the annual Saint Patrick's Day breakfast in South Boston, it is as I've said before it is the greatest gathering of gasbags in one place since Kaiser Wilhelm reviewed Germany's Zeppelin fleet in 1915.

But ditching Southie for a ham-n-egger in Scituate? 

That is ba-ad politics in an election year.

Trust me Deval Patrick is chortling at all the free shots he'll be taking tomorrow, a two hour long "Baker is a Bum" informericial to be sure.

 Oh don't worry, Scott Brown and Tim Cahill will pump some serious arrows into the Governor's hide...But I doubt that bothers Patrick one whit.

It all helps him move to the center, into the "Harry Truman Position", the guy who stands athwart the trimmers and the utopians and sez "Nope!"

I think he is hoping Tim will carry South Boston and let Baker carry Scituate as long as he, Governor Patrick clears the board in his targeted precincts.

As of tomorrow the game begins in earnest...