GOP, RIP in Mass.

[Boston Critic]

Went to vote this morning. Brookline, Massachusetts is more concerned about a local ballot question than anything else, given that Deval Patrick is expected to win the governorship in a breeze. (Important: vote anyway!)

What was interesting was that Kerry Healey has been whining about the importance of having a Republican governor to check the Democratic legislature (an argument she has not been making to support a Democratic Congress, btw). Yet my state senator and representative were running without Republican opposition. So was my congressman. So were *most* of the candidates on the ballot for town, county, and statewide office.

The Republican party has become a joke in this state. In spite of controlling the governorship for sixteen years, not one of those governors has made electing Republicans to other office a top priority. As a result, today's Boston Globe reports that the Republicans may hold the fewest seats ever in the legistlature since records started being kept in the 19th century.

[Gato Moteado]

1. i'd like to be the first to spit on their filthy grave

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[LiberalCommiePinko]

6. LMAO!!!!

nt

[SF Bay Area Dem]

2. Ironic that the Northeast is fucking over the GOP south....

... I do not think the corrupt conservatives ever thought that the northeast would turn so blue when they went after the redneck racist vote in the deep south. It must be galling to the southern conservative racists to not only get beat by the northeastern Yankees in the civil war but that same northeast will make them politically irrelevant in present age as is the southwest and northwest.

AND NO I DO NOT HAVE TO LIKE FUCKING NASCAR EITHER! Remember that little line after the 2004 election? That "libruuls" do not like NASCAR like the southern conservative racists and that is why we lost? Puhleeze!

[RoyGBiv]

4. Wow...that was helpful n/t

[BamaLefty]

7. Touche!

From a Southerner! There are a lot of crazy folks down here.

[Lexingtonian]

3. yep

There's talk out there that Republicans running for open and marginal state leg seats and such in western and southern Mass. begged Healey to tone down the negative campaign two weeks ago. They didn't want to get sucked down with her sinking ship (favorable 26%/unfavorable 53% at the time).

Healey evidently decided that losing the race was going to be bad enough, getting pilloried by her Party after the election for dragging the other candidates down and the statewide mockery at getting Alan Keyes kinds of numbers was going to be real hell.

[Marrah_G]

5. I hope the door hits them in the ass....

They and their pathetic followers need to get the hell out of our state. I have zero tolerance for some fundie assholes moving to my home and using it as some sort of stepping stone to national elections while making it clear how much they despise the people and culture of our state.

The people of Massachusetts are waking up to the fact that we once again have a King George and his Royal Governor. Just like last time, we are kicking them in the ass all the way back to where they came from.

[Cha]

8. Can we thank mitty romney for

that?

"The Republican party has become a joke in this state."