Just sayin’…
I knew his daddy. Pat Patrick. A fine jazz musician. He played for many years with perhaps the outest jazz group that ever existed, the Sun Ra Orchestra. The fact that a son of someone who played with the Emperor of Outness (You could look it up.) could stand on the dais of a national political convention and lay down the truth of the situation in no uncertain terms, that he could ascend to the governorship of the most Puritan-based state in America after growing up around the craziness and push to the edge of NYC in the Lower East Side of NYC in the ’60s and ’70s…I dunno what to say except:
VAYA, bro’!!!
Tell it like it is!!!
AG
P.S. Compared to the just-ended speech from Julian Castro…heavily-hyped even before it went down and already the receiver of a great deal of support due to his Hispanic heritage and the practicalities of political competition in the U.S…Patrick’s was red meat to the max.
Talk about experiments with the truth!!!
Grow up listening to John Coltrane?
Step to the mainstream without losing the truth?
There’s hope for America yet.
Vaya, Deval.
Vaya!!!
Let us pray.
Please.
AG
2014 – John Kerry retires – Deval Patrick for Senate
2016 – Deval Patrick for President
Likely field in primaries in 2016:
Martin O’Malley
Rahm Emanuel (just watch)
Sherrod Brown
Brian Schweitzer
Not advocatin’; just analyzing possibilities
What? No.
Right of first refusal: Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden
If neither run, then: Andrew Cuomo
Cuomo may get competition from Martin O’Malley and/or Mark Warner.
No one else has a chance in hell of raising the money to win.
Emanuel has his job for life. Never leaving.
Sherrod Brown will not run for president. Brian Schweitzer will not run for president. Both could be VP fodder, however.
I don’t think that Hillary or Biden will run.
Forgot about Cuomo. Yep. That would be the guy with the money. And not too exciting.
Emanuel might have a job for life but I don’t think that will cool his ambitions.
So Schweitzer is going to retire when his term ends?
Mark Warner has been running for president since 2006. Not likely to make it.
Sherrod Brown. You probably are right; he might not have the connections or the fire in the belly.
OK, after you and PsiFighter saying how good it was, I had to go find a video. Here it is. I’m still watching…
Yeah.
You won’t hear it from the mainstream media or the Dem establishment, though.
Why?
1-The Dems think…quite justifiably…that they have the black vote pretty well sewn up, but not the Hispanic vote. Thus the heavy hype is with the relatively lightweight Castro rather than the red meat populist Patrick.
2-The media are not in he business of “red meat.” They are in the business of the median. (Thus the name “media,” to some degree.) So they lay on the middlemen, not the truth-tellers.
So it goes.
To the middle.
AG
Deval put it down, for real.