Malden mayor answers to Brown's stupid statement on Markey (MA Senate Race)

[Bucky]

16. You gotta feel bad for ambitious Massachusetts Dems.

For two generations there was only one Senate seat for them to fight over and half the time the state, against all common sense, elected Republican governors. Probably for the same reasons New York hasn't elected a Democratic mayor since the mid-1990s. And think about all those Bay State pols inspired by the Kennedys, each of them witty and clever and yearning to do some liberal good in the world--and the state goes and elects a Republican senator. No sooner do yall get that straightened out, and suddenly you have another special election barreling down on you with that same old pretty boy con artist trying to monkey up the works.

So here's Ed Markey, at 66 years old, finally getting the career chance of a lifetime. Had he been from any other state, he'd've been a senator long long ago. I'm from Texas, but I've been following politics for over 40 years and I know who Ed Markey is. I remember him railing against the Contras and that star wars boondoggle. If he gets the honor, he won't have a long career in the Senate like his hero Ted Kennedy has. But he's a man of gravitas and he's a man of parts. He knows the job, probably better than anyone else could. But I guess in a democracy, you don't get to "deserve" any office; you have to earn it.