MICHAEL DUKAKIS, REALLY???

THE NEXT SENATOR FROM MASSACHUSETTS?

As mentioned in a previous post, Nikki Haley has appointed Rep. Tim Scott to be the next Senator from South Carolina, replacing a retiring Sen. Jim Demint. Meanwhile it has also been announced that the only guy Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has been able to come up with to replace John Kerry-Heinz, if Barry, as expected, selects him as his new Secretary of State, is likely to be former Massachusetts governor and the Democrat’s losing presidential candidate in 1988, Michael Dukakis. Let’s see, Tim Scott on one side and the liberal fossil, Michael Dukakis, on the other. That tells you all you need to know about where it is that the priorities of the Democrat Party lie.

Gov. Patrick is, as everyone should know, your very typical Democrat, and as such needed to find just the right person to fill Kerry-Heinz’s seat until a special election can be held. And apparent Dukakis, who is now 79, is the guy Patrick thinks fits the bill exactly. It is said that old Mikey has remained pretty politically active having campaigned for Elizabeth "I’m Really An Indian" Warren this fall and ,apparently, he also ‘teaches’ at Northeastern University. At this point the political experts have all said that the Democratic primary for Kerry-Heinz’s seat is likely to be an intense and Patrick is expected to tap someone as an interim replacement who would promise not to run in the special election.

"He’ll most likely appoint a placeholder. A lot of people speculating that’s Mike Dukakis," said Jim Spencer, president of the Campaign Network, a Boston-based political consulting group. "That’s the most obvious choice. Everybody thinks it’s Dukakis." David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said he has heard Dukakis floated as an interim successor along with Vicki Kennedy, the late Ted "I’m a Pervert" Kennedy’s widow. A placeholder, well if that’s all Patrick looking for then I suppose old Mike would be the perfect choice. After all, he’s not much good for anything else! He meets the need of having a warn body in the seat until a suitable loon and be elected.

Paleologos said Dukakis has been very close to Patrick ever since Patrick thought about running for governor. "[Dukakis] was one of the first people he consulted with when he thought about running," said Paleologos. Another Boston-based Democrat ‘operative’ said he had heard both Dukakis and Kennedy mentioned as possible interim successors. Others seen as strong possible contenders for the party’s nomination in the special election: Reps. Ed Markey, Mike Capuano and Stephen Lynch.Markey and Lynch have already reached out to so-called Democrat operatives to feel out possible bids, according to a source familiar with private discussions. Patrick could tap a Democrat who plans to run in the special election if it appears the party needs an advantage against a strong Republican candidate.

The strongest Republican option would be Scott Brown who lost to Elizabeth Warren, in November, say political experts. But Patrick has said he is likely to follow the same course he did in 2010, when he picked Paul Kirk to fill Kennedy’s seat temporarily. "I expect to do the same thing I did last time," Patrick told reporters. "I’m not ruling out other options. But, as a practical matter, it’s hard for me to imagine how you could serve in the Senate for a four-month period and also run a statewide campaign in a four-month period and do both of them well." Democrats are optimistic about their chances of keeping Kerry-Heinz’s seat. Political analysts say Brown would be easier to beat in 2013 than he was in the 2010 special election, when he defeated Martha Coakley.

Peter Ubertaccio, chairman of the department of political science at Stonehill College in Massachusetts, said Democrats would not be "asleep at the wheel", as he said they were in 2010, in another special election against Brown. "If he is the nominee, it will energize Democrat voters who don’t want to go through the humiliation of losing to him twice in a special election. The political winds have changed sufficiently that he’s going to face a harder climb in 2012 than 2010," he said. Jennifer Duffy, a senior editor at the Cook Political Report who specializes in Senate races, noted Brown continues to enjoy a high approval rating in Massachusetts. But she agrees he will have a tougher race in 2013 than in the 2010 special election.

"I do agree the dynamic is going to be different," she said. "Democrats were pretty embarrassed by what happened, are going to work hard not to repeat history." Brown quickly raised millions of dollars in 2010 from conservatives who were outraged over the looming passage of the Affordable Care Act and eager to capture Kennedy’s seat as a political scalp. And the anti-Barry "Almighty" conservative revolt may have since lost some of its steam and winning Kerry-Heinz’s seat does not have the same cachet as seizing Kennedy’s. "There isn’t the kind of animus against John Kerry-Heinz. If the Democrats put up a formidable candidate, that candidate will give Brown a real battle," said Dan Payne, a Boston-based Democratic analyst.

A formidable candidate? Come on, we’re talking about Massachusetts here. A state that possesses a population that has repeatedly demonstrated that they are far from being the sharpest knives in the drawer. After all they were perfectly happy to reelect a guy who was a drunkard and a pervert as well as someone who got away with murder until he finally died. And they are the same ones who have been sending off to the Senate every six years going all the way back to 1984, a guy who is nothing more than a traitor to his country. And, this little brain trust referred to as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts most recently elected Elizabeth Warren, who whenever she walks into a room very quickly becomes the dumbest person in attendance.

And apparently this most recently elected dim bulb, Elizabeth Warren will now be referred as being the senior Senator from Massachusetts with Michael Dukakis being the junior Senator. My God, what a duo, and the poster children for all that is wrong with this country. Makes me damn glad that I’m not a resident of the state that these two morons call home. It has to be the laughing stock of the other 49 or, if you’re Barry, the other 57 states. I mean, we have our own cadre of loons down here in Florida with Bill Nelson, Corrine Brown, Alcee Hastings, Debbie Schultz and Frederica Wilson to name just a few. But we’ve got out fair share of excellent folks as well that kind of offset the loons. Not so in Massachusetts.