Charlie "Ziplips" Baker arrests

his slide in the polls at  bargain basement cost of 2 million USD which bought him enough mudslinging commercials to knock Tim Cahill into single digits.

To think four months ago, Charlie was looking to be sloppy thirds in this race but he climbed onto the airwaves early and in a nasty form (which pretty much the classic Weld-Cellucci-Romney game plan) and got back in the game.

It is worth remembering that Baker's default position is a certain craveness, faced with badgering from his own tea bagger right or even some pointless teasing from a D-List radio talk show ranter, Charlie will flop over on his back and piss himself every time in a compulsive bid to ingratiate.

But it is also been my observation that the most craven and spineless of candidates will usually hire the most ruthless campaign staffers and initiate the most outrageous attack adverts imaginable. Partly it is compensation in the Freudian sense of the term, partly it is because they have some morbid self knowledge of their own cupidity and can see no other way to win.

So all this is merely a word to the wise to the Patrick campaign that they can expect a deluge of attack ads ere' long.

Lets hope they have a counter strategy in place.