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

There is one reason why I want to see Kerry Healey and Jack Robinson become, respectively, the next governor of Massachusetts and the first Bay State Republican congressman in a decade: because both wins will shock the hell out of those who promote the "conventional wisdom."

Already, the arrogant prognosticators are proclaiming Healey and Robinson’s respective opponents, Deval Patrick and Stephen Lynch, the guaranteed victors in their races. The puffed-up pundits can’t even entertain a scenario in which Healey and Robinson could go over. It’s simply beyond comprehension that people could reject a vague, ultraliberal, blow-dried candidate who can deliver speeches but nothing else, or a flip-flopping, unaccomplished, profane hack.

To the professional predictors, Healey and Robinson are unsophisticated, unserious candidates. Their business and educational achievements aren’t relevant; after all, if you didn’t come out of Harvard and the corporate world praising the virtues of the Democrat Party, there must be something wrong with you.

It’s sickening to see Patrick and Lynch being deified while Healey and Robinson are demonized. However, on November 7, it will be funny to see how those who guaranteed Patrick and Lynch’s victories will spin the opposite results.

We know that there will be an attempt to cast aspersions upon those who decided to vote for Healey instead of Patrick–but how will they explain Lynch’s defeat at the hands of the independent-minded Robinson? After all, these are the same people who declared that Robinson wasn’t fit to be elected dogcatcher after he was defeated by Ted Kennedy in 2000, a defeat largely prompted by the fact that Kennedy unleashed his attack dogs on the candidate. How will they analyze a Lynch loss in a way that doesn’t take into account the incumbent’s tremendous flaws?

The press won’t like seeing Healey and Robinson in the winner’s circle. They’ve tried to bury the so-called "Romney-Healey Administration" since early-2003, and they attempted to bury Robinson in 2000. However, both of them refused to be sent to an early political grave.

It will give them fits, won’t it? How funny will it be to see the Boston Globe editorial page and the left-wing cheerleaders at Blue Mass Group react to Patrick and Lynch’s losses? How humorous will it be to see the left caught in its own smugness, choking on the pride that led to the fall?

I can’t wait to hear the excuses, to see the looks of shock and awe on their faces. I can’t wait to see Kerry Healey and Jack Robinson prove that the "conventional wisdom" is pretty damn stupid.