Apropos of nothing...

But Scot Lehigh's column in today's Globe (which is otherwise given over to Charlie Baker's schizoid tendencies), contains the following quote:
"Charlie is the hard-charging policy whiz who was the soul of the Weld administration. That Baker was dubbed the smartest man in state government, and other than Bill Weld himself, he might well have been."
Honestly what IS IT about Bill Frickin' Weld that so beguiles our local columnistas?
The mere mention of his name and they fall over in a blissful stupor vacant smiles on their faces!
So far as I can see Weld was a vain vacuous man given to laughing at his own jokes, cutting terrifying back room deals with Billy Bulger (a man he once promised to run off Beacon Hill) and who mixed hard liquor and budget cuts in equal measure. Bored to tears with the minutia of state government he tried to unseat John Kerry by running as a freeper before resigning as Governor in a bizarre attempt to become Ambassador to Mexico..and the finally irony is, he was undone in that bid by the US Senate's Arch Freeper, Jesse Helms.
In the end, of a desperate need to "revel" undisturbed Weld secured a divorce and good lodgings on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, a brief attempt to run for Governor was fortunately not allowed to interrupt Weld's post gubernatorial repose.
Not much of a record, the budget got balanced but that was off of Dukakis' tax increases the rest of it is easily forgotten. One can make an argument that the Commonwealth's decline commenced under his aegis, picked up steam under Cellucci and Swift and reached it's nadir with the Romney interlude. All of Deval Patrick's efforts to date have done naught except arrest the slide into mediocrity that started in 1990.

Not to Scot Lehigh though, to him, Bill Weld is Nietzsche's overman incarnate. Me,  I just don't get it....