You’re welcome and thanks for your thoughts.
Gotta say it again: talk to a lot of people in MA and they’ll say people like Brown, Tisei, and yes Romney are far right Rethuglicans who will starve children, kill old people,
rape women, money hungry bastards who are worse than Nazis.
I’m not kidding. This is how the moonbats feel. Ted Kennedy!
Barney Frank! Ed Markey! Deval Patrick! John Kerry! They got re-elected time after time.
I’d hope the people in the 4th could elect Bielat who gave
Frank a good run last time but remember he’s running against a Kennedy.
>>Nothing develops clear eyed pragmatism quite like defeat...after defeat...after defeat...after defeat.
Electing Brown was for me like Red Sox fans in 2004 who hadn’t seen a World Series win since 1918. FINALLY!!!
I’m a pragmatic conservative too.
So you live in the same Massachusetts that Ronaldus Maximus carried twice? Are you sure that moderate mushballism is necessary in GOP candidates even in the Springfield area? When was the last time that a moderate mushball was elected to Congress from Springfield? Much less a pro-baby murder, fudge-packer candidate bearing a GOP label? Isn't it the word "Republican" that is generally disreputable in Taxachusetts and not the notion of socially normal family values???
The Commonwealth elected a series of moderate mushballs as governors from William Weld up to and including Willard and it did nothing but provide an arguable balance to the solidly corrupt machine Demonrat General Court (your legislature) and to utterly destroy the meaning of the Republican brand name in the Commonwealth. Scott Brown was elected as a demonstration that even the Commonwealth had a bit of a problem swallowing Obozo's radicalism although the spoiled social revolutionary brat wing of the Commonwealth's "GOP" has settled the public down to accept radicalism as usual as a norm. As a result, Brown may lose to Fauxcahontas. If Brown loses, Massachusetts may never have another GOP US Senator. If Tisei wins, Springfield will likely never have another GOP US Congressman after Tisei is defeated in 2014.
As a Red Sox fan, you knew the sting of no World Series victories from 1918 until 2004. 86 years! During many of those years, the Red Sox looked like they were not trying much like the Massachusetts "GOP" has looked like it was not really trying for many of the years from 1948 to date. As a Red Sox fan, you deserve a sense of compassion from those not so afflicted.
Maybe, if the Massachusetts "GOP" were to spend less time cultivating the ohhhh sooooo fashionably liberal Cabots, Lodges, Saltonstalls and the Codfish aristocracy and get down in the streets and slug it out for the social conservatives who supported Democrats like Billy Bulger, Ed King, John McCormack and others like them, the Massachusetts "GOP" might learn that Taxachusetts liberalism, like all liberalism, lives in a fiction bubble of its own making, successfully peddling the myth that its victories are inevitable.
Corruption is in the DNA of the Demonrats and it just infuriates the snobs down at the polo club. In the last analysis, corruption is somewhat endemic to all human societies in our fallen world. Blame Eve. Baby-killing and fudge-packing are not endemic to all human societies and will do far more damage in the short and long run than the trite objects of Howie Carr's delightful lampooning of Massachusetts' hackarama. If the GOP in your state does not want to slug it out for the votes of social conservatives, then go down to the yacht club and weep copius rivers of tears inconsolably into your Chateau Lafitte Rothschild '29 over the refusal of social conservatives (the actual GOP Base) to support your baby-killing and rump-ranging candidates like Tisei just because our social "betters" think we should be "open-minded."
Frank O'Connor's fictional Frank Skeffington was a far better Republican than Tisei as was Skeffington's real life inspiration: James Michael Curley.