Two Herald columnists, two rather different views of Deval Patrick.
Howie thinks Patrick will win. The rest is his usual garbage. You want to read it, knock yourself out.
Eagan’s column is much more interesting. There are lots of things she doesn’t like about Patrick – his stances on in-state tuition and charter schools, to name a couple. But she gets the big picture of his campaign – in the process joining her Herald colleague Ginny Buckingham in believing that Patrick, not Gabrieli, is the biggest threat to Kerry Healey.
Every voter is on an eternal search for a leader, whether we know it or not. There are so few. And thats the big reason I want Deval to win: Hes a born leader….
I do care that when the Big Dig fell apart, Mitt Romney in his orange vest soothed my shattered nerves. Thats something Gabrieli could never do. And though Gabrieli wants to believe Kerry Healey just went after him because she fears his zillions most, I bet she did it to elevate him because she fears Deval Patrick most.
As well she should.
I think the biggest threat to Kerry Healey is Christy Mihos. He’s going to run hard against the current administration and will attract conservative voters.
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And by the way, Mitt Romney in his orange vest got on my nerves…but hey, that’s par for the course.
Mihos is the safety valve that will attract disaffected Democrats and Independents who don’t particularly feel the need to vote Republican, but can’t bring themselves to vote for single-party rule.
granted, he used to live in Cohasset but I have seen none, 0, nada regarding Kerry Healey
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Totally unscientific I know but doesn’t that say something at this point?
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It is nearly the end of September.
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Plus, Bill Hillsman is doing Mihos’ ads – the same ad guy wthat is working for Lamont. He is very innovative. I am interested to see what he has come up with for Mihos.
I wonder why nobody’s brought this guy up, esepecially in his current position, he’s poised to screw up what isn’t already screwed up in Iraq. The big dig is made out to be a democratic blunder, but the GOP has been there all along, brining their own people to muck it up.
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I hope Romney’s 2008 compeititors are taking notes on how he dodged it for so long until he couldn’t. Please let him get what he deserves. A one way ticket to palookaville.
Peter Gelzinis article > http://news.bostonhe…
Not gonna happen. If Christy Mihos cracks 20%, the next Presidential election I’ll vote Republican! LOL
Romney beat O’Brien 50-45. Assuming Mihos takes more votes from Healey than the Democratic nominee, he won’t need to get much more than 5% to affect this race.
He can definitely play spoiler, but he isn’t going to win. That was my only point, even if I was being ambiguous.
How is Howie Carr a columnist? A) He’s clearly not a good writer. B) He uses words like “moonbat” and other insults meant to put people down. C) By using such terminology, it takes away from ANY argument or point he could actually have to make.
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What it all boils down to is this: The only people who will be able to stomache his trash are the people as crazy as him. People who believe a good 30-50% of the population are Moonbats for liking Deval Patrick. When people start calling upwards of half the population crazy (and, apparently we’re a bunch of lazy asses without jobs), they need to start looking in the mirror. Only crazy people think everyone else is crazy.
Howie Carr is to columnist as Boston Herald is to serious newspaper.
so much as he is an entertainer. Kind of like how WWE wrestling has the veneer of an actual sport, but is really sports “entertainment.”
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Who feels like he’s under attack. Face it, his running character allows him to look like a vocie of sanity by making his targets look like lunatics. We know for instance that Howie is probably fatter than ,”fat Matt” Amorello, but who looks at Howie when he’s busy pointing fingers.
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You just have to accept that there will always be somebody who fills this void. Howie was too much of a loser to actually stay in the process and fight for something other than a book advance. I wonder how long it will take before he gets squeezed out in favor of an automated program that can spit out columns that use the same lazy adjectives and Ted Kennedy Metaphors: his proposal was as solid as Ted Kennedy’s driving (rim shot).
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I’m sure what gets Howie’s goat is the fact that he’s never been asked to the hallowed halls of FOX news. He’s divison three angry white guy to division 1 Bill O’Reilly, who was covering the same crap when he was here in Boston, but Bill has a big house and books-a-go-go while Howie can only burp out one book about the Bulgers long after Dick Lehr did.
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