Last week, Eric Alterman wistfully invokes the possibility that Al Gore might run for President in 2008 whilst the Boston Phoenix devoted a feature article to former Senator and 2004's Democratic Vice Presidential nominee John Edward's nascent campaign for the White House.
So you see...game on.
Even as Senator Hilary Clinton amasses money and endorsements for a presumed 2008 run for President there are all kinds of major and minor players who are casting around for an alternative to her candidacy.
You wouldn't quite mind so much except that Eric Alterman is one of those columnists who rolled his eyes (figuratively speaking) at the mere thought of Al making another run in '04.
Well, Al has made some tought speeches in the interim and that seems to be enough to get this cohort back on his side. Still...it is a bit opportunistic if you asked me.
Who the A.B.C. candidate is gonna ultimately be is an open question at this point. Depending on how the elections go this year the lists may fill up with candidates in the Iowa Caucuses & NH Primary thus diffusing the anti-Clinton impetus.
As I've said before, if the dems do well this fall look for a cautious revival of Howard Dean's political stock.
Although frankly, if the A.B.C. crowd was smart they'd recruit themselves a governor or better yet a former governor...someone with brains and time on his or her hands to start doing the drudgework now.
Monday, August 14, 2006
Saturday, August 12, 2006
The Sheer Foreign Policy Genius of Willard Mitt Romney...
Honestly you'd have to walk a long way in this Commonwealth to find a politician more bereft of ideas than Governor Romney.
Faced with the arrest of several dozen alleged Al Queda hijacking suspect in great Britain, Willard wracks his feeble overused wits and asserts that John Kerry's opposition to the war in Iraq has emboldened Al Queda.
Ri-ight, cause' the proper response to the 9-11 attacks, a plot dreamed up in Afghanistan and executed by disaffected Saudis is to invade and occupy Iraq - that seems to be the crux of the Governor's thinking.
Well...what can I say?
Crisis is a great exposer of a politician's normally hidden inner thoughts and feelings. These arrests in London and elsewhere, so eloquent of Al Queda's resurrection as an agent of chaos chillingly demonstrates Mitt's persistent freeperish worship of President Bush with his formidable 30% approval rating.
It also shows in a very stark fashion the premature bankruptcy of Romney's foreign policy ideas. Faced with a new threat from an old foe, all Mitt can do is spew like an old viper and demand more of the same in Iraq.
And finally, what kind of a neophyte numbskull chains himself to a policy that is soundly disparaged by some 605 of the American electorate?
Our own sweet Viceroy that is who.
Therefore what can we expect if Romney somehow achieves the Presidency in 2008? Apparently our adventure in Iraq will go on and on with new producer, fresh US blood and lots of Chinese Yuan cleverly converted into US Dollars....that is it.
What you see now, is what you'll get then.
Faced with the arrest of several dozen alleged Al Queda hijacking suspect in great Britain, Willard wracks his feeble overused wits and asserts that John Kerry's opposition to the war in Iraq has emboldened Al Queda.
Ri-ight, cause' the proper response to the 9-11 attacks, a plot dreamed up in Afghanistan and executed by disaffected Saudis is to invade and occupy Iraq - that seems to be the crux of the Governor's thinking.
Well...what can I say?
Crisis is a great exposer of a politician's normally hidden inner thoughts and feelings. These arrests in London and elsewhere, so eloquent of Al Queda's resurrection as an agent of chaos chillingly demonstrates Mitt's persistent freeperish worship of President Bush with his formidable 30% approval rating.
It also shows in a very stark fashion the premature bankruptcy of Romney's foreign policy ideas. Faced with a new threat from an old foe, all Mitt can do is spew like an old viper and demand more of the same in Iraq.
And finally, what kind of a neophyte numbskull chains himself to a policy that is soundly disparaged by some 605 of the American electorate?
Our own sweet Viceroy that is who.
Therefore what can we expect if Romney somehow achieves the Presidency in 2008? Apparently our adventure in Iraq will go on and on with new producer, fresh US blood and lots of Chinese Yuan cleverly converted into US Dollars....that is it.
What you see now, is what you'll get then.
Friday, August 11, 2006
Good Ghod! The Bad Poets Society is returning!!
Scot Lehigh has exonerated Ned Lamont
from the charge of "moonbattery".
Darn nice of him I say.
I wonder though, will he be quite so generous if Duval Patrick wins the democratic gubernatorial nomination or will Lehigh go beating thru the bushes looking for nice moderate republican hallucination to follow?
Darn nice of him I say.
I wonder though, will he be quite so generous if Duval Patrick wins the democratic gubernatorial nomination or will Lehigh go beating thru the bushes looking for nice moderate republican hallucination to follow?
A genteel reminder to all the unenrolled voters here in the Commonwealth...
that a mere 18 months ago, Lt. Governor Kerry Healey was insisting in the most diresome terms that John Kerry simply MUST resign from the US Senate as his presidential campaign was preventing our Junior Senator from conducting senatorial business.
Now of course, that same Kerry Healey is crossing the length & breadth of Massachusetts squawking like an old hen and running for Governor like she was down to her last rubber check.
My question is, doesn't all this whistlestopping take Kerry Healey away from pressing Lt. Gubernatorial business?
If she was going to be consistent in her views, shouldn't she herself resign from office in order to spare Massachusetts from the horrors of a part time Lieutenant Governor?
Kerry Healey is a hypocrite, she cares not one jot about whatever idiotic and contradictory premises she campaigns under, as long as she wins. That might be a formula for victory but it's a excellent indicator of a bad character and poor leadership skills.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Now of course, that same Kerry Healey is crossing the length & breadth of Massachusetts squawking like an old hen and running for Governor like she was down to her last rubber check.
My question is, doesn't all this whistlestopping take Kerry Healey away from pressing Lt. Gubernatorial business?
If she was going to be consistent in her views, shouldn't she herself resign from office in order to spare Massachusetts from the horrors of a part time Lieutenant Governor?
Kerry Healey is a hypocrite, she cares not one jot about whatever idiotic and contradictory premises she campaigns under, as long as she wins. That might be a formula for victory but it's a excellent indicator of a bad character and poor leadership skills.
Sick
Demented
Typical...
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Caught Kerry Healey's new TV advert last night
she makes the usual spurious claims that as Governor she'll be a bulwark against a rampant state legislature.
There is a reason why Kerry Healey's handlers have kept her out of sight all these months, she looks like a slightly seedy real estate agent desperate to win that set of steak knifes and finally get her name on the big dry erase board.
Otherwise, this twaddle about spending is pretty much her expected line of attack, you could set your watch to it quite frankly.
Given Kerry Healey's paucity of achievements in public life to date and her meager charisma it may be the only option open to her.
My question is, did anyone ever hear Lt. Governor Healey utter word one of dissent when Mitt Romney raised 750 million dollars by increasing ever single fee with reach of the Executive Department?
For that fact, just what is her plan to make sure the Massachusetts taxpayer doesn't get stuck with the bill to repair Bechtel-Parson's shoddy workmanship on the Big Dig?
Granted this is something that won't register with the wider electorate or the local punditariat for that matter, but it is pretty damn galling about Kerry Healey's condescending lectures about public thrift when she is trying to BUY the governorship with her husband's money.
I'd love to see Kerry Healey have to enter the marketplace free and unfettered and try and EARN herself the four to ten million she'd need to win.
That would prove an interesting and edifying spectacle...
There is a reason why Kerry Healey's handlers have kept her out of sight all these months, she looks like a slightly seedy real estate agent desperate to win that set of steak knifes and finally get her name on the big dry erase board.
Otherwise, this twaddle about spending is pretty much her expected line of attack, you could set your watch to it quite frankly.
Given Kerry Healey's paucity of achievements in public life to date and her meager charisma it may be the only option open to her.
My question is, did anyone ever hear Lt. Governor Healey utter word one of dissent when Mitt Romney raised 750 million dollars by increasing ever single fee with reach of the Executive Department?
For that fact, just what is her plan to make sure the Massachusetts taxpayer doesn't get stuck with the bill to repair Bechtel-Parson's shoddy workmanship on the Big Dig?
Granted this is something that won't register with the wider electorate or the local punditariat for that matter, but it is pretty damn galling about Kerry Healey's condescending lectures about public thrift when she is trying to BUY the governorship with her husband's money.
I'd love to see Kerry Healey have to enter the marketplace free and unfettered and try and EARN herself the four to ten million she'd need to win.
That would prove an interesting and edifying spectacle...
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Sunny weather in Connecticut
no doubt a lot of nursing homes emptied out yesterday in a last ditch attempt to put Joe Lieberman over the top in the senatorial primary.
Alas it came to naught, despite Joe's special appeal to the elderly that being a sort of good-son-in-law with a certain amount of chilly sympathy for shut ins.
Which is why I was thinking (and sadly I blogged not on this topic) that if Ned Lamont wanted to seal the deal last week he needed to start talking about Joe Lieberman's quiet ardor to "compromise" on social security privatization.
In fact if Lamont is smart, he'll start talking about social security starting right now.
Alas it came to naught, despite Joe's special appeal to the elderly that being a sort of good-son-in-law with a certain amount of chilly sympathy for shut ins.
Which is why I was thinking (and sadly I blogged not on this topic) that if Ned Lamont wanted to seal the deal last week he needed to start talking about Joe Lieberman's quiet ardor to "compromise" on social security privatization.
In fact if Lamont is smart, he'll start talking about social security starting right now.
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