Deval Patrick's history if Tim Cahill, Charlie Baker tango

Article 11-16-09

An early glance at Governor's race

by Howie Carr
DNN Staff - EXCLUSIVE
Monday, Nov. 16, 2009

Can we talk, Tim Cahill and Charlie Baker?

It’s time to flip a coin. I’m serious. Heads or tails. The winner runs for governor, and the loser gets to be the other guy’s running-mate on the Republican ticket. If both of you get together right now, you can begin planning the transition in January 2011.

Not even ACORN will be able to pull it out for Deval. Or even the Globe - assuming there still is a Globe next November, that is, after all the layoffs next January.

No way Deval Patrick can be reelected in 2010. Let me rephrase that - no way he can get over 50 percent of the vote. But if two candidates are on the ballot against him, then he only needs 34 percent of the vote. Sadly, despite his disastrous term, he could still conceivably get 33 percent-plus-one. There are that many moonbats infesting this benighted Commonwealth, that overly medicated, guilt-ridden, non-working trust-fund crowd living off the monthly check from either their parents or their uncle (Sam, that is).

Which brings us to Charlie Baker, Republican, and Tim Cahill, the former Democrat who is now an independent. Both of them are running for governor. They’re making Deval’s day.

The only shot the Together-We-Con governor has is if he can split the 60 percent anti vote. Divide and conquer - the oldest story in the book.

Even then, it’s not a sure thing. Look at New Jersey last week - bustout Democat Gov. Jon Corzine, a slimy Goldman Sachs moneychanger, almost pulled it out over his GOP challenger. He came close only because of an “independent” candidate who was endorsed by the state’s largest dying broadsheet, a wretched Democrat organ called the Star-Ledger (a sort of the Globe of Newark).

The Republican was elected when the “independent” faded at the end. This is what usually happens to third-party candidates - are you listening, Tim Cahill? Nobody wants to waste his vote.

Now, you can’t blame Cahill for being offended by the fact that Charlie Baker wants him to become his number 2. After all, what is the highest office Baker has ever been elected to? Selectman, in Swampscott.

Cahill, on the other hand, has run, and won, statewide, twice. The first time, in 2002, he was one of two guys named Cahill in the Democratic primary. That’s impressive, but as Tim knows better than anyone else, he won because one of his daughters came up with a catchy slogan, “Tim for Treasurer.”

Still, he won. As the old saying goes, I’d rather be lucky than good.

But in the Dreaded Private Sector, it’s another story. Charlie Baker turned around Harvard Pilgrim. Then there’s Cahill, who in his days on the Quincy City Council owned a coffee shop named Handshakes, which was more commonly known as Fisticuffs, due to the lack of brotherly love at the joint.

So you can understand why Charlie is as adamant about Cahill stepping aside.

Meanwhile, Deval has had a hip replacement. What he also needed, as his dithering over the UMass terrorist proved, was a spine transfusion. The state can’t afford four more years of this buffoon.

Heads or tails? Your call, Tim.