Wednesday, May 24, 2006

If they are gonna smear Deval Patrick

then they will probably start with the old "quota king" routine derived from his stint in Bill Clinton's Justice Department. Its a nice emotional type issue around which a great deal of mindless hysteria can be whipped up.
It also dovetails however vaguely with the current pseudo-debate on immigration, giving the opposition two witch hunts for the price of one.
Purists will no doubt insist that Patrick's links to corporate America could well be a sizable chink in his armor however Romney chiseled for years at Bain Capital Group and none of it slowed him down in 2002. Allegations of corporate malfeasance can be troubling but they are also unsexy and hard to boil down to a sharp sound bite.
No...it'll be quotas I think.
So maybe Patrick better start sharpening his jibes and counterstrokes.
Cause' believe me, there is nothing worse than a democrat who just isn't ready and willing to retaliate.

***
Meanwhile is it Humble Elias or does the current democratic gubernatorial campaign seem oddly muted so far?
There has been hardly any fireworks. I suspect everyone is holding fire until after the convention, which proves that huge unwieldly archaic institute, the state democratic conventions still has some postive role to play.

No comments :