Honey, we have to take a moment together. Girlfriend, I used to live in your state. Registered Democrat. Known troublemaking activistic type.
While I was there, a tall charismatic red headed irish dude was running for governor against a really really smart though standoffishly quirky college president. Republican versus Democrat.
And actually, considering some things the college prez did while he was in office were a touch on the odd side, he was still way up in the polls over the red head.
Until ... two words ...
Natalie Jacobson.
She was a too chirpy, too perky, too big haired anchorette of the WCVB-TV 5 (ABC affiliate) television station. The hair height did come down over time.
But back to why I gotta chat with you sistagirl.
John Silber. Shake the dust and think back.
Natalie was playing with the kid or the dog on the floor with his wife on one side and him on the other. She asked him what his strengths and weaknesses were. People in Massachu were trying to get to know the real him. They seemed to have made peace with all he did before.
Then he unraveled.
He snapped at her, and I will always recall the look on her face. It wasn't a gotcha question, but he reacted like it was. And his tone and chosen words of response set into motion several years of acceptable republicans in rather high positions for what is claimed to be such a blue state.
So it is with great distress to hear that, sistagirl, you are a mess.
How could you turn a cakewalk into crumbs? By thinking 'Senator Coakley' was all a predestined affair I suppose. Did someone think this was the senior class in high school, and who votes for the kid with the pocket protector?
I voted for the red head that year. Silber lost my vote too.