Honest to God I sometimes think I just don't want to lambaste Deval Patrick anymore. That its just too easy.

There used to be a kid I grew up with. You'll know the type when I describe him. He was in your circle of friends and he was the abuse taker. For the most part it was good natured, but he was the one that everyone picked on. In my day his name was Lally ( first name withheld to protect the innocent).

Anyway, Lally never got it into his head not to hang around with us. He'd show up places and just take a ration of shit. About him, his clothes, his mother, his smarts... you name it and he got shit about it. It got to the point when one of us went to the men's room we would say " Gotta go take a Lally".

It was just too easy with Lally. He just kept coming back for more. Just like Deval.

Here's his latest interview with the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/17/AR2007031701005.html

In it , the Post pretty much makes him look like a Lally. They speak of his potential and the hope he held for Massachusetts voters.

Then they pull the rug out from under him. They quote members of his own party like Barney Frank saying about his call to Ameriquest : "That was a mistake in judgment, not just cosmetics" - nice - way to support a fellow Dem, Barney.

And yet, even through the beating he takes - and there are some nice ones landed like about the caddy: "The move might have caused minor grumbling, but critics saw it as just another decision of a series in his brief tenure that embraced the very political elitism he ran against during his campaign" his arrogance shines through. That pandering insipid habit of his to " call a flap trivial, dismiss it for a few days and then apologize after criticism escalated."

I thought John Kerry & Ted Kennedy were doing just fine making us look like a bunch of boobs. And here comes Deval.