trails Romney by a mere seven points, 18% to Mitt's 25%.
Excuse me, but to paraphrase the late H.L. Mencken, I may need a stadium to guffaw in, if this thing shakes out the right way.
Don't forget, this time in 2007, the convention wisdom held that Romney had a lock on the Granite State and John McCain was being fitted for a star spangled straitjacket.
THe jaded xenophobes of New Hampshire have a history of voting for sociable freaks in the GOP Primary, John McCain short fuse and all and before him, Patrick Buchanan. Much is made of the state's stoic Yankee reserve, this is nonsense though, New Hampshire loves a gaffe-prone giddy gaudy clown as much as the rest of the country.
And right now, that clown seems to be Michele Bachmann, mighod I'm not sure she has said a single sensible thing in the past six months!
Mitt must be tearing his perfect hair out.
And if Bachmann really can bootstrap herself into the challenger's position in New Hampshire against Romney, it will be a jubilee!!
Just remember, 25% is a puny plurality, and Mitt has messed up a sure thing New Hampshire before...
Friday, July 08, 2011
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Gubernatorial "Listening Tour" update
Okay this is interesting, Lt. Governor Tim Murray is coming to Arlington Town Hall, Thursday July 14th at 6pm to take on all questions.
Arlington, one of the top ten communities in the Commonwealth for democratic primary turnout...Tim Murray gets this prize venue.
Hmmmm....
Meanwhile the Governor is taking his act on up to Salisbury Ma, a community handily carried by Scott Brown in 2010.
Both destinations seem significant in Humble Elias' opinion.
Now if all this has some impact on the 2012 Senatorial race, then first things first I think we need to take people's stated intentions at their word, i.e. Deval Patrick is NOT running for Scott Brown's seat.
But nobody said nothing about Tim Murray, did they?
A Murray candidacy has some attractive aspects, he is young, presentable (if a bit shiny), he has made few enemies in the past five years, with Patrick behind him he can presumably fundraise like a sumbitch and as an incumbent Lt Governor Tim Murray risks nothing from making the race.
On the other hand, does Tim Murray have the necessary rhetorical and political gifts to unite the democrats and draw vital independents into an election day coalition?
I like the guy, but he has never impressed me as a virtuoso on the podium.
But then again, neither is Scott Brown who other than his Barrymore-esque profile has said little quotable since his election in 2010.
Assuming this listening tour is about 2012, then the Governor and Lt. Governor would not undertake it unless they had a strong intimation that no one else of consequence was getting into the race in the near term.
I suspect as much at least.
So anyway I'll be there Thursday night, ear to the ground, ya never know.
Arlington, one of the top ten communities in the Commonwealth for democratic primary turnout...Tim Murray gets this prize venue.
Hmmmm....
Meanwhile the Governor is taking his act on up to Salisbury Ma, a community handily carried by Scott Brown in 2010.
Both destinations seem significant in Humble Elias' opinion.
Now if all this has some impact on the 2012 Senatorial race, then first things first I think we need to take people's stated intentions at their word, i.e. Deval Patrick is NOT running for Scott Brown's seat.
But nobody said nothing about Tim Murray, did they?
A Murray candidacy has some attractive aspects, he is young, presentable (if a bit shiny), he has made few enemies in the past five years, with Patrick behind him he can presumably fundraise like a sumbitch and as an incumbent Lt Governor Tim Murray risks nothing from making the race.
On the other hand, does Tim Murray have the necessary rhetorical and political gifts to unite the democrats and draw vital independents into an election day coalition?
I like the guy, but he has never impressed me as a virtuoso on the podium.
But then again, neither is Scott Brown who other than his Barrymore-esque profile has said little quotable since his election in 2010.
Assuming this listening tour is about 2012, then the Governor and Lt. Governor would not undertake it unless they had a strong intimation that no one else of consequence was getting into the race in the near term.
I suspect as much at least.
So anyway I'll be there Thursday night, ear to the ground, ya never know.
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Ron Paul's version of Four Freedoms...
Freedom from Social Security...
Freedom from Medicaid...
Freedom from Longevity...
Oh yes and the Freedom to terrorize Planned Parenthood...
Freedom from Medicaid...
Freedom from Longevity...
Oh yes and the Freedom to terrorize Planned Parenthood...
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Gotta love Mitt Romney...
he will fight stubbornly to the end in defense of any lie or distortion he has promulgated on the campaign trail.
However when it's a question of common decency, humanity or just plain factuality, then Mitt is more than willing to truckle, evade, equivocate and if pushed ever so slightly abjectly surrender.
In this he resembles no one so much as the late Richard Nixon, except Tricky Dick had a certain malevolent political skill, Romney on the other hand for all his bluster remains a tedious and transparent fraud.
However when it's a question of common decency, humanity or just plain factuality, then Mitt is more than willing to truckle, evade, equivocate and if pushed ever so slightly abjectly surrender.
In this he resembles no one so much as the late Richard Nixon, except Tricky Dick had a certain malevolent political skill, Romney on the other hand for all his bluster remains a tedious and transparent fraud.
Monday, July 04, 2011
If I didn't dislike
WTKK's Michael Graham before, I sure do now.
Not because of his infantile power worshipping politics, but because Graham is trying to rob Humble Elias of my favorite whipping boy, Willard Mitt Romney.
Yes indeed Michael has teamed up with a bunch of other humorless dinks to try and mess up Mitt Romney's electoral chances prior to the All Important New Hampshire Primary.
They've got money, and some media reach in NH (especially via the radio), the usual set of resentments, but so far, no Antimitter Candidate.
It'll be interesting to see of these mooks can in fact coalesce around someone who can take the fight to Romney, I'm thinkin' they can't (Look what they have to work with, Rand Paul, Michele Bachmann...I mean sheesh!) but we will see goin' forward.
The reasons for this "Romney Revulsion" are simple, like me, Michael Graham and his nattering nabobs of negativism have figured out, Mitt is 100% out for himself, he is not a real conservative (whatever that means these days)
And of course, because Mitt not a conservative, he must be destroyed.
Sort of a Dalek ideology if you asked me, but then what can you expect from a bunch of conservative welfare bums and a radio talk show host?
Not because of his infantile power worshipping politics, but because Graham is trying to rob Humble Elias of my favorite whipping boy, Willard Mitt Romney.
Yes indeed Michael has teamed up with a bunch of other humorless dinks to try and mess up Mitt Romney's electoral chances prior to the All Important New Hampshire Primary.
They've got money, and some media reach in NH (especially via the radio), the usual set of resentments, but so far, no Antimitter Candidate.
It'll be interesting to see of these mooks can in fact coalesce around someone who can take the fight to Romney, I'm thinkin' they can't (Look what they have to work with, Rand Paul, Michele Bachmann...I mean sheesh!) but we will see goin' forward.
The reasons for this "Romney Revulsion" are simple, like me, Michael Graham and his nattering nabobs of negativism have figured out, Mitt is 100% out for himself, he is not a real conservative (whatever that means these days)
And of course, because Mitt not a conservative, he must be destroyed.
Sort of a Dalek ideology if you asked me, but then what can you expect from a bunch of conservative welfare bums and a radio talk show host?
Friday, July 01, 2011
One more thing....
David Bernstein, one of the best political reporters currently creeping around the State House was kind enough to answer an entirely predictable question from Humble Elias in his "Ask Me Anything" blog post today.
His response can be found here:
His response can be found here:
The Massachusetts House GOP caucus
(didn't I tell youse ta keep yer eye on dese guyz?) has proposed a comprehensive upgrade in legislative ethics including a rule that all lobbyists be compelled to wear a special badge when chatting up legislators.
Hell why stop there, make em' wear dunce caps I say.
Seriously though much as I hate to say it, there some merit in the new rules as proposed by the GOP caucus, I do think the House ought to debate the proposals in open session and soon. Dismissing the "badge proposal" as akin to the Nazi "Yellow Star" is idiotic rhetorical excess and demonstrates the alienation of the legislature's leadership from the current wellsprings of reform.
I don't think the leadership has properly gauged the level of revulsion out in the electorate with respect to all this kissy-face with lobbyists.
Thus, if the legislature does not reform of itself, sooner or later reform will be imposed from without and from the ballot box as well.
Just sayin' guyz...
Hell why stop there, make em' wear dunce caps I say.
Seriously though much as I hate to say it, there some merit in the new rules as proposed by the GOP caucus, I do think the House ought to debate the proposals in open session and soon. Dismissing the "badge proposal" as akin to the Nazi "Yellow Star" is idiotic rhetorical excess and demonstrates the alienation of the legislature's leadership from the current wellsprings of reform.
I don't think the leadership has properly gauged the level of revulsion out in the electorate with respect to all this kissy-face with lobbyists.
Thus, if the legislature does not reform of itself, sooner or later reform will be imposed from without and from the ballot box as well.
Just sayin' guyz...
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