Notes From D.R. | Random Thoughts on the Passing Scene

"Nothing worth having in life comes easy."

That’s a lesson Massachusetts Republican gubernatorial candidate Kerry Healey had to learn growing up amidst adversity in Florida. She learned that lesson a second time while she earned her Ph. D. She learned it a third time making a name for herself in the rough-and-tumble world of Massachusetts politics. And now, she is learning that lesson once again, as she confronts numerous obstacles on her path to becoming the Bay State’s next governor.

The two main barriers she must topple take the form of Democrat gubernatorial nominee Deval Patrick and "independent" candidate Christy Mihos. The far-left Patrick is subtly hostile to Healey’s moderate Republican views; the "maverick" Mihos is openly hostile to her beliefs, as he showed during his repulsive performance in the first debate of the general election. Patrick and Mihos
are aided and abetted by an irresponsible media structure that detests Healey and her boss, current Governor Mitt Romney, and seeks to promote Patrick and Mihos–Patrick because they see him as the Bay State’s version of the 2000 John McCain, and Mihos because he blames Healey and Romney for everything that’s wrong in Massachusetts.

You have to admire Healey’s courage as she faces off against the rabid Democrat partisans, the bloggers who dismiss her intelligence, the activists who view her as the symbol of GOP mendacity, and the extremists who truly believe that the victories of her Republican predecessors were all flukes. Healey is inspiring people she has never even met with her determination and dedication.

No matter what the sarcasm-soaked scribes say, Kerry Healey will win the Massachusetts gubernatorial election on November 7. She’ll do it for everyone who’s been told they can’t make it, for everyone who was told they didn’t have the ability, for everyone who was told they were overmatched but who were in reality underrated.  Anyone who knows the Kerry Healey story understands that she is a woman who, once she decides on a goal, will not rest, will not stop, will not abandon, will not relent, will not quit until she has achieved what she set out to accomplish.  Her goal is to be the state’s guardian against the schemes of the licentious Legislature, the person who will speak common-sense truth to elitist power. That goal’s within reach. In just under seven weeks, she will grasp it.

The novelist Victor Hugo once said that "nothing, not all the armies in the world, can stop an idea whose time has come." Well, the time has come for Kerry Healey to be the next governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. On November 7, it will be more than just an idea–it will be reality.

UPDATE: More on the campaign from the Herald and Globe.