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This guy thinks that becasue Republicans are governors of Massachusetts, that somehow that subtracts from Kerry's poisonous liberalism? Or that denials of recorded votes can serve to hide a leftist idealogue?

The reason Dukakis wasn't ready was because he was a leftist; the same is true of Kerry. It's true that Massachusetts isn't my daddy's Massachusetts, but that's only because it's worse.

The author of this piece is a little confused. He seems to be trying to paint Massachusetts and Kerry as being less leftist than they actually are.

For one thing, he notes that the last four governors have been Republicans. That may be true, but three of them were so liberal they might as well have been Democrats. In fact, the first in this series, William Weld, was elected largely because a maverick named John Silber fluked his way into winning the 'Rat primary for governor. Silber was something of a conservative, so the voters chose a liberal Republican instead in the general election.

Current governor Mitt Romney might be considered moderate. He certainly isn't a conservative. He defeated a giggly, forty-something year old schoolgirl Democrat whose flippancy and childishness turned off even some 'Rat voters. Since Romney wasn't very conservative, they elected him.

Every member of the Massachusetts House delegation is a liberal 'Rat. Both senators are liberal 'Rats. The legislature is overwhelmingly liberal 'Rat. The state supreme court is practically Marxist.

As for Kerry himself, where has he ever shown himself to be anything other than an ultra-leftist? Since being elected to the Senate in 1984, what conservative vote has he cast? What conservative cause has he championed? If he's a centrist, he surely must have come down on the conservative side about as often as he did on the liberal side. So, where are those votes? Has he ever voted against gun control even once? Abortion? More social spending? Less defense spending?

His only so-called conservative vote in all those years was his vote for the Iraq War, and that was a calculated political move to make him look hawkish to the general electorate for his run for president. He proved what a fraud that vote of his was by opposing funding the war after voting for it, and by assuring liberal 'Rat primary voters that he never really wanted for President Bush to go to war at all.

Kerry is a leftist, and Massachusetts is the nation's most leftist state.

Actually Dukakis was a fiscal conservative on a personal basis. That is, he threw his own nickels around like they were manhole covers. But he felt obliged to spend taxpayer money like a drunken sailor. That's the way most Massachusetts liberals are. They love to spend money, just so long it is other people's money. Joe Kennedy Sr. taught his sons to walk around with no money at all so that others could keep picking up the tab. It's the way they were raised to think.