How about Brad Card for Lieutenant Governor? Y'know Andy Card the White House Chief of Staff's moocherella little brother? Brad would make a great running mate for Kerry Healey.
Why?
From what I can tell, he needs the work.
Okay that was mean, but seriously Brad has an impeccable political pedigree and strong desire to get his mits deep into GOP politics, really ANY GOP politics will do!
Granted he was last seen sniffing around the republican congressional primary in New Hampshire, but if it is one thing 2002 has taught us, izzat details like this can be fixed up with no worries.
I say the Massachusetts GOP should start importing ringers from the Granite State en masse. The republican party is too robust up there (Much akin to the Bay State's dems) its take forever to work your way up to some juicy public sinecure. If a few of the lean and hungry ones (like Brad say) came down here they could be campaigning free and clear for PAYING statewide jobs right away.
Of course it is, cynical, malicious and low...but it is an midterm election they may as well start up with it all now as later.
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
Monday, March 06, 2006
The Lieutenant Gubernatorial Sweepstakes...
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.
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.
Sunday, March 05, 2006
Sorry Ma'am, why don't you try for that other lifeboat just over the horizon?
In her current Boston Globe column Joanie Vennochi said among other things, the following:
"Liberals raised as Catholics refuse to accept this reality. We think we can be prochoice, pro-gay marriage , pro-gay adoption, and in favor of married and female priests and still call ourselves Catholic. The people who make the rules say we don't meet the criteria."
Ehhhh what is this "we" shit white woman??
Joanie, you can't be enrolling yourself in the Liberal Legion after the election cycle you've just had.
Nope sorry.
Others may be taken by your sudden burst of high minded anti-clericalism, but Humble Elias cryeth foul!
Where were you when John Kerry was being all but run out of the congregation by the Bishops in 2004?
C'mon Joanie pull those columns, you might've hissed and recoiled a bit over it, but mostly you just cut JK dead.
Now suddenly the bishops have you and yours in the cross-hairs and so thus Joanie demands action??
You just don't get to call our players cowards traitors and bullies like a demented cheerleader and then think someone is gonna make room for you in the last life boat as the SS Vatican plunges into the Stygian depths.
No...sorry dat ain't happening.
I'm sure you are just dyin' with worry for liberal catholics after having done your queenly best to run over with a steamroller the candidate of all liberal catholics in the 2004 election.
Joanie please for your own sake, flip over to the GOP I'm told the process is painless, then you can scream like a stuck pig all you like.
Save for strange columns like this, you walk talk and think like a freeper and it is long past due that someone said as much simply & plainly.
Cause' frankly, I don't wanna be on the same side as you.
I'm willing to put up with everyone from Billy Galvin out to Gore Vidal...but you Joanie you got (in the words of the late Lenny Bruce) "A talent for making people vicious".
I'm real sorry that ther RCC has abandoned you, they've been abandoning a lot of people for a long time and and they will continue to do so until Benny da Pope gets his tight airless pseudo-protestant congregation goin'.
It is cold out there dog-paddling in the middle of the ocean, I should know that is where you left me circa November 2004.
you wanna get picked up? just swallow your pride and give Ray Flynn and William Donohue a shout.
You belong with them, you've got the "I hate John Kerry" bona fides, they'll take you in.
Maybe.
"Liberals raised as Catholics refuse to accept this reality. We think we can be prochoice, pro-gay marriage , pro-gay adoption, and in favor of married and female priests and still call ourselves Catholic. The people who make the rules say we don't meet the criteria."
Ehhhh what is this "we" shit white woman??
Joanie, you can't be enrolling yourself in the Liberal Legion after the election cycle you've just had.
Nope sorry.
Others may be taken by your sudden burst of high minded anti-clericalism, but Humble Elias cryeth foul!
Where were you when John Kerry was being all but run out of the congregation by the Bishops in 2004?
C'mon Joanie pull those columns, you might've hissed and recoiled a bit over it, but mostly you just cut JK dead.
Now suddenly the bishops have you and yours in the cross-hairs and so thus Joanie demands action??
You just don't get to call our players cowards traitors and bullies like a demented cheerleader and then think someone is gonna make room for you in the last life boat as the SS Vatican plunges into the Stygian depths.
No...sorry dat ain't happening.
I'm sure you are just dyin' with worry for liberal catholics after having done your queenly best to run over with a steamroller the candidate of all liberal catholics in the 2004 election.
Joanie please for your own sake, flip over to the GOP I'm told the process is painless, then you can scream like a stuck pig all you like.
Save for strange columns like this, you walk talk and think like a freeper and it is long past due that someone said as much simply & plainly.
Cause' frankly, I don't wanna be on the same side as you.
I'm willing to put up with everyone from Billy Galvin out to Gore Vidal...but you Joanie you got (in the words of the late Lenny Bruce) "A talent for making people vicious".
I'm real sorry that ther RCC has abandoned you, they've been abandoning a lot of people for a long time and and they will continue to do so until Benny da Pope gets his tight airless pseudo-protestant congregation goin'.
It is cold out there dog-paddling in the middle of the ocean, I should know that is where you left me circa November 2004.
you wanna get picked up? just swallow your pride and give Ray Flynn and William Donohue a shout.
You belong with them, you've got the "I hate John Kerry" bona fides, they'll take you in.
Maybe.
Friday, March 03, 2006
Oliver Goldsmith, Poet and Blogger:
"Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey
Where wealth acculmulates and men decay"
The Deserted Village, 1770
Where wealth acculmulates and men decay"
The Deserted Village, 1770
Thursday, March 02, 2006
The way things are going...
Kerry Healey should perhaps drop all plans to run with State Senator Scott Brown and instead open negotiations with his daughter Ayla the "American Idle" contestant. Yup the value of the GOP Nominations for Governor and Lieutenant Governor have fallen that low.
Seriously, Ayla has name recognition,a good "youth" demographic, a committed fan base (per the front page of Today's Globe) and is as qualified as Healey was in 2002 to be Lieutenant Governor of this glorious Commonwealth.
Frankly at this point, Ayla Brown may be Kerry Healey's only hope. The HEaley campaign could commission a decorous pop song for Ayla to sing at every whistlestop...something catchy about low income taxes and no pot holes.
Humbl Elias wonders though, with the race officially becoming a rambunctious threesome today, is The Lieutenant Governor's rich sleazy husband still willing to bet the house and their retirement so to speak on his wife's latest harebrained political scheme?
Seriously, Ayla has name recognition,a good "youth" demographic, a committed fan base (per the front page of Today's Globe) and is as qualified as Healey was in 2002 to be Lieutenant Governor of this glorious Commonwealth.
Frankly at this point, Ayla Brown may be Kerry Healey's only hope. The HEaley campaign could commission a decorous pop song for Ayla to sing at every whistlestop...something catchy about low income taxes and no pot holes.
Humbl Elias wonders though, with the race officially becoming a rambunctious threesome today, is The Lieutenant Governor's rich sleazy husband still willing to bet the house and their retirement so to speak on his wife's latest harebrained political scheme?
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
If I have readers then I must offers apologies...
as some of you might recall I got laid off a week or so ago thus I've been updating on a very erratic schedule. I know some of you have gotten used to it going up by 12:30 pm EST at the latest, but for once Humble Elias personal life is getting in the way.
Hope to have thing squared away soonest.
Hope to have thing squared away soonest.
Mihos is in as an Independent...
or so claims Boston.com.
The value of the GOP nomination for Governor just dropped a good thirty percent. It would seem that Kerry Healey has failed the first test of politics, keeping a clear field all the way to the goal post. She hasn't been able to keep Boss Mihos from bolting the ruins of the State GOP and now naught but havoc will be the result.
A lot of democrats are no doubt rejoicing about this, I'd advise them to think twice and start updating their lists of ones and twos.
Mihos is an arrogant misogynistic bastard and a bit of a flake, but he understands too well the power of money welded to a promise of "protection" from the allegedly rampant state legislature. He need only 34% of the vote to win if things break his way.
on the other hand, if the race does come down to a test of turnout, there the democrats have an advantage...precinct captains, lists, willing foot soldiers etc. So lets not take this a gift, Mihos could mean big trouble for us in every way.
The value of the GOP nomination for Governor just dropped a good thirty percent. It would seem that Kerry Healey has failed the first test of politics, keeping a clear field all the way to the goal post. She hasn't been able to keep Boss Mihos from bolting the ruins of the State GOP and now naught but havoc will be the result.
A lot of democrats are no doubt rejoicing about this, I'd advise them to think twice and start updating their lists of ones and twos.
Mihos is an arrogant misogynistic bastard and a bit of a flake, but he understands too well the power of money welded to a promise of "protection" from the allegedly rampant state legislature. He need only 34% of the vote to win if things break his way.
on the other hand, if the race does come down to a test of turnout, there the democrats have an advantage...precinct captains, lists, willing foot soldiers etc. So lets not take this a gift, Mihos could mean big trouble for us in every way.
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