This is one of the guys who was going to run against Kerry in 08 in MA

This is a rebuilding cycle for the Mass Repubs. Former Gov (hehehehe!) Romney did a number on the state party and pulled them far to the right and they need to recover from that. (The kind of socially conservative/fiscally conservative model that Romney took on after his win in 2002 is not a fit for the Bay State. 31,000 people in Mass changed voter registration from Republican to Indepenent (or unenrolled) over Romney's term in office.

The Boston Herald, in a Jan 26th article, said these are the contenders, now that former Harvard Pilgrim CEO Charlie Baker has declared he doesn't want to run against Kerry in '08:

Others in the pool of possible GOP challengers include politically wired fund-raiser Chris Egan, state Sen. Scott Brown (R-Wrentham), state Sen. Bruce Tarr (R-Gloucester), U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan, former Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey and Andy Card, former chief of staff for President Bush.

Egan comes from money and real conservative stock. (He produced an anti-Kerry film in time for the last Presidential race that was a look back at the 1972 Congressional race in Lowell.) I understand he has access to some money and might want to make a vanity run. Brown is apparently off his meds and can't understand why standing in front of a group of high school kids at an assembly and using language that contains the 'F' word and using actual students' names in his speech with intent to malign is a bad thing. Scratch that guy. He is too thin-skinned to do anything. I will look up the others.

Wow. You Mass folks have done a good job of keeping a lid on potential repub candidates. This guy went to a HS to yell at an auditorium full of kids? For something a couple of them said on myspace?
What a weenie. He made some of them cry. If he had done that to my kid, I'd actively campaign against him before he had an opportunity to put up the first sign.
I swear the Republicans don't have any grownups left in their party. Doesn't this guy know how to handle a simple issue with a couple kids' internet postings?
How can someone like that expect to represent the Commonwealth of Mass?
Sheesh.

He would rather wait for 2010 and run for Governor. So we have a lot of 'also-rans.'

However, that doesn't mean that Senator Kerry can put aside the reparative work in Massachusetts. He needs to do that. He has to talk about what he has done for Massachusetts in this term. He also has to pledge his undying love to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ("I will always love you!" "I will never leave you." "I only have eyes for you." Pick a love song and sing it.) That is because the last few years have been talked about mainly in terms of the Presidential race.

So sad, too bad, but the people always want to know, "what have you done for me lately?" This is a very answerable question, so, they need to get around to answering it. Forcefully. (With roses and chocolates and a pledge of undying love. Being against the war so strongly is a very, very, very good start. Much appreciated.) This is because you never, never, never, never, never, never take the voters for granted. George Allen did this in Viriginia and he is now (Thank God!) the ex-Senator from Virginia.

(I like red roses. Sign of true love. Not so much with the chocolates though. But a pledge of everlasting and undying committment and love to the good Commonwealth of Massachusetts and a pledge to be true to that goal and to go down to DC and tell them what you really think is a wonderful thing. Seriously, this is a wonderful thing. I think people know that here, but they need to hear it once in a while as well.)