I hope Curt runs and wins. Outside of him, the seat stays Rat. Kerry Healy seems like a nice lady, but she's a social lib and has no real shot. Scott Brown???
This is a classic of choosing the least painful or deadly disease over the others. Lynch would be, at least on the surface, an improvement over Ted Kennedy or any other Rat.
Fieldmarshal brings up some really good points, and AuH2O brings up the history of the Cambridge US Rep seat. I still maintain that killing of the Kennedy dynasty is of huge importance. Electing someone other than Capuano does that. I'd LOVE to see Curt win, but if not him, I hold my nose and vote for Lynch. At least he's not an outright embarrassment (yet, unlike a Kennedy or Barney Frank).
Fieldmarshal: Mayor Kevin White has Alzheimer's, Ambassador Flynn has cancer. There was some rancor about Menino naming something after him while he's still around.
OK, I didn't know both of them were ill. Can't think of anything off the top of my head that Mumbles could name something after Flynn. How 'bout Boston Common as Flynn Common ? ;-)
Hyperbole. I wouldn’t actually endure a painful death before I’d vote for Lynch. ;)
I’d rather see him win than the other rats.
But I would not personally vote ever for a liberal democrat (except in local Chicago races like alderman where the only choice was between 1 of 2 liberal democrats).
And I wouldn’t vote in their primary if that’s what you are talking about. Might be good strategy in one party Massachusetts but I don’t think Lynch is better ‘enough’ than the rest to merit a vote from MA freepers.
Your disease analogy is perfect. I used the same to describe our GOP presidential frontrunners.
But Lynchitis is hardly less deadly than the rest.