Nov looking Good:Patrick wins Dem primary! Attacked as Tax & Spend Liberal! It's Old now,Enough!

I must say first that I am from Massachusetts. I am happy to have seen that we had a good field to pick from in Chris Gabrieli and Tom Reilley! I happened to have voted for Deval Patrick but believe Gabrieli and Reilley would also have done us proud.
My issue is with Kerry Healey who came out before Deval's victory was even announced and started the standard Repub underhanded negative attacks calling Patrick just another tax and spend Liberal. What??
I think we are all sick of the two faced underhanded politics and mindless pigeon holing rhetoric that has served the Repubs so well in the past.It is beyond me how the don't tax the rich, overspend, debt driving Repubs, knowing what they have really done to America just financially, can with a straight face criticize Democrats. It just blows me away.

Any way, I would say it looks very good for us to take our State back in the fall after a 4 term drought. If you are interested here are a few facts on our Primary.

Deval Patrick, a former top U.S. civil-rights enforcer, will try to become Massachusetts' first black governor and break a 16-year Republican hold on the office after winning the liberal state's Democratic primary on Tuesday.
Patrick, 50, who served as assistant U.S. attorney general for civil rights under former President Bill Clinton, faces Republican lieutenant governor Kerry Healey and millionaire independent Christy Mihos in the November 7 general election.
Patrick carried every county with 49 percent of the vote, about double that of his rivals -- venture capitalist Christopher Gabrieli and attorney-general Thomas Reilly -- after the state's costliest gubernatorial primary.
November's winner will succeed Republican Gov. Mitt Romney, who is expected to run for the White House in 2008. Despite Massachusetts' reputation as a liberal bastion and a record of backing Democrats for president, moderate Republicans have held the governor's office for four consecutive terms.
After winning her party's nomination unopposed, Healey quickly branded Patrick a tax-and-spend liberal who is weak on crime and said a Republican was needed to balance the Democratic-controlled state Legislature.

Patrick's grass-roots campaign, focused on "the politics of hope," rallied party faithful and appealed more broadly to moderate Democrats impressed by the clean-cut, Harvard-educated corporate lawyer and his life story.

Patrick grew up poor on Chicago's South Side, living on welfare after his saxophone-player father left the family to join avant-garde jazz musician Sun Ra when Patrick was five years old. http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Anyway, despite the underhanded tricks the Repubs will continue to play this fall I am encouraged after listening to the lowlife Repub tactics once again, that the public realizes the truth now and we will do well all around in November. How do you all feel about it?

James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com