Weld For Veep....

He once wanted to be Governor of Massachusetts (til he got bored with it) or a US Senator or a US Ambassador to Mexico or maybe Governor of New York...but as of this weekend Bill Weld has settled on running for Veep on the Libertarian Ticket as His Next Big Thing.
Almost immediately humiliation piled atop excruciating embarrassment, he had to repeatedly promise in the most craven and abject terms total lifelong fealty to the Libertarian Partei....he was boo'd at their convention (a chintzy looking affair from the looks of it), a candidate for Party Chair performed a striptease.
AND still it took two ballots to get Bill on that meshugginah ticket....

I don't care how chipper Weld pretends to be for his undying apologists at the Boston Globe he has to realize he has hit rock goddamn bottom and stone sober as well.
I was saying last week that that Bill won't hang in there until Labor Day, I'd like to revise that, I say he bails by July 4th.  Weld's downfall is that he is a Boomer Avatar, Snarky Insolent, Gloriously Sloppy and Selfish....but like all boomers he cannot stand embarrassment or humiliation...."looking like a fool" is a mortal blow to the Welds of this World. And Bill looked like a fool this weekend, watch for it is all I can say six weeks of answering questions about John Galt from spectrumy libertarian fanatics and Bill will decamp for Cape Anne or wherever he holes up when he is thirty.

Serious question for all seven of my readers...

Doesn't Former Governor Bill Weld rate a pension from the Commonwealth of some type? Feel franchise to respond factually in the now open Comments Field. If Weld doesn't get a pension then maybe the State Legislature should intervene because Bill has come back to Massachusetts with empty pockets and time on his hands & has registered as a LOBBYIST on Beacon Hill! What he drank up all his money on the Upper West Side of Manhattan...or did Susan Roosevelt rook him good in the dee-vorce? What ever it is, there is something distinctly gamey about a Former Governor of the Commonwealth Lobbying the Commonwealth on behalf of any private entity. Bad enough ex state legislators do, you can make an argument though it's mostly what they did when they were in office anyway... But a Former Governor is supposed to uphold certain standards yo'. Ah but this is Bill Weld we are talking about, a famous enabler of the Bulger Crime Family and the Beloved Favorite of Boston Globe Columnists near and far. If Bill Weld announced for Public Exploder in Cambridge Ma, Morrissey Blvd would shudder, endorse his boney ass and flop over on it's stomach within twenty four hours. The man's Svengali like hold on the imaginations of certain local journalists is as firm as ever despite all those gin martinis.