This is old news for everyone else, but I just finished reading today's Boston Globe, in which there were many Kerry mentions. Some were ok, some were insulting. But at least he's on their minds.
I thought people who don't read the paper every day might be interested in the way the home town newspaper is treating our guy.
I think I'll start with the worst. A
LTE blaming Kerry, Kennedy, and Menino (Boston mayor) for crime. Stupidest thing I've read in a long time, especially since Kerry was the person who initiated the COPS program. 'Nuff said.
Then there was the
href="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2005/05/03/kerry_needs_to_lighten_up"]LTE accusing Kerry of humorlessness. Not the first time we've heard that one. TayTay discussed it in
here.
Then there's the purely evil
Joan Vennochi who gets a thrill from insulting Kerry. She writes ostensibly about the MA governor's race, but manages to gratuitously (and, if you ask me, idiotically) kick Kerry on the way:
Reilly supposedly supports the death penalty. However, in this instance, he said, he could not support Romney's proposal because the state's crime lab, medical examiner's office, and local police departments are underfunded, making them incapable of providing the airtight conditions the governor's bill promises.
This was, on Reilly's part, an equally overt political effort to curry favor with liberal Democratic primary voters, who would be inclined to support Patrick's anti-death penalty stand. The state Republican Party quickly put out a press statement detailing Reilly's record of conflicting statements regarding the death penalty, and Romney called him on it. The criticism rang true, especially because Reilly recently attempted a similar adjustment on gay marriage, which he is now in favor of, not opposing.
Reilly can't run successfully for governor this way, any more than John Kerry could run successfully for president. Meanwhile, as Reilly is painted as a flip-flopper on gay marriage and the death penalty, he has yet to find a way to get credit for stands he took as attorney general.