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“That’s almost as long a pause as in the Nixon tapes”

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That’s Jim Braude’s hilarious comment, delivered on last night’s Broadside  after he played the following excerpt from his radio show.  The topic: whether Charlie Baker – who, by a delightful coincidence, lives in the MA-06 congressional district – is planning to vote for Bill “kooky lawn sign” Hudak.

Charlie, this is so incredibly simple.  It’s so straightforward.  It’s so obvious.  But you just won’t do it.  Why?

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  2. “Of course I AM going to vote in the primary between Hudak and….uh…and…McCarthy!  Rob McCarthy!…but to say HOW I’m going to vote would almost like a pre-primary endorsement, and that’s just not fair.  But I can tell you that I won’t be voting for Tierney!”  (cue chuckle).

    • And evidence of either (a) bad advice from the consultants, (b) lack of felicity with campaigning, or (c) both of the above, I suspect.

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      p>The man is going to have to dig himself out of this Hudak hole one way or another: it is just too entertaining as it stands for the matter to fade away on its own.

      • http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp…

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        p>After the first 4:20 of BS content, comes the Governor’s real opinions!

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        p>Now in my 2nd CD, we have a very spirited and hard-fought contest between Tom Wesley and Jay Fleitman. It would be foolish to endorse one over the other. Kind of like the foolishness you folks are promoting in your own Auditor primary. I’ll have a better chance of receiving a favor from Glodis than all you other candidate endorsing nags.  

  3. Been a while. How has everybody been.

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    p>I’d like to thank David for highlighting my appearance on Broadside.  He did however forget to put up the whole video.

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    p>Also you’ll see I mentioned David in the video here is what I was referring to:

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    In the ad, Rove’s wave appears to approximate a Nazi salute   (0.00 / 0)
    Just as the word “lockstep” is spoken, at about six seconds in. Anybody else see it like that? If that was intentional, it’s pretty no-holds-barred stuff.
    Interesting ad- I love the contemptuous, foreboding way the movie-voice says “Republican”.
    by: Farnkoff @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 21:30:32 PM EST

    Hahaha I missed that. Nice. (0.00 / 2)

    by: David @ Mon Jan 11, 2010 at 21:36:30 PM EST
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    • If only everyone in Massachusetts read BMG with equal assiduousness the commonwealth would be much improved.

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      p>Kudos for admitting that Hudak was wrong to put a poster of the President photoshopped as mass murderer Osama bin Laden — responsible for the deaths of many Massachusetts residents, among thousands of others — on his front lawn. Charlie Baker and Hudak himself should be equally forthright.

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      p>As to Baker, however, the candidate is not worthy of your impressive efforts on his behalf: to claim, as you did, that he may not know who Hudak’s opponent is in the G.O.P. primary in his own 6th Congressional district (attorney, veteran, and member of the Saugus Republican Town Committee Rob McCarthy, as it happens), is ludicrous.

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      p>The poison in the Republican Party’s embrace of Tea Party chalice becomes apparent: Charlie Baker thinks he can’t get elected without the support of the birthers and the Hudaks, but he fears that he himself can’t win as a birther or a Hudak. Sadly for him, he doesn’t appear to have the political skills of Scott Brown, who walked that line with truly impressive duplicity.

      • Rob: You told Jim Braude that you don’t know who Hudak’s Republican primary opponent is.

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        p>That’s funny because RedMassGroup has a blog entry from July 29th (four weeks ago) highlighting the GOP primary between Hudak and Rob McCarthy. You are one of people who commented on that very post.

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        p>In the spirit of resurrecting old blog comments, I’ve taken the liberty of linking to that RMG post with your comment: http://www.redmassgroup.com/sh…

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        p>Care to clarify?

          • my comment was “your job is up for grabs” in response to Barbara Anderson. Mike Rossettie did a bunch of these in succession. I didn’t read them all.  

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            p>but I see your point.  No nefariousnous here, I seriously forgot what his name was.  I do know absolutely nothing about him.  

              • I think his assertion that he forgot or didn’t know Rob McCarthy’s name is plausible.

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                p>For Charlie Baker, however, not to know who McCarthy is, when the chap is (a) a prominent Republican in his district, (b) running for Congress in his district, and (c) he himself is running for Governor as a Republican, is completely absurd.

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                p>That’s why I say Rob’s defense of Baker is more than the candidate deserves (it was also unlikely to convince anyone).

  4. Once again Baker’s claims are frankly unbelievable: he does not simply refuse to say who he will vote for in the primary but claims that he has not thought about it–really?

  5. I don’t see anything funny. The pause was not an awkward pause. There is so much to dislike about Charley Baker but your glee at this non-awkward moment is a little odd.

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