Next Victim of Scott Brown Freight Train: Deval Patrick

It's a shame John Kerry isn't also up for re-election this year. He would have a good chance of being swept aside by the surging red tide in Massachusetts. As it is Scott Brown may well dispatch the hapless Martha Coakley come Tuesday, but the governor of the state could also wind up being crushed come November. That is if he even survives a primary battle.

While Martha Coakley’s campaign teeters on the brink of becoming the biggest political implosion since that of her predecessor, Tom Reilly, there’s another Bay State Democrat who’s watching the Scott Brown freight train in a state of terror: Gov. Deval Patrick.

Patrick insiders say the governor’s campaign people are horrified by Brown’s surge, considering that Patrick is facing a candidate eerily similar to Brown in Republican health-care honcho Charlie Baker, not to mention a well-funded moderate Democrat in independent candidate Treasurer Tim Cahill.

The thinking goes that if Brown, a political lightweight before this race, can energize the undecideds and frustrated Dems to steal Ted Kennedy’s seat over a Democrat, then the tide in the state is truly turning. And not in a good way for the ultra-liberal governor, who knows first-hand about campaigns catching fire and becoming unstoppable.

One Patrick insider said that Coakley’s own internal polling shows Brown leading and that the governor’s inner circle is quivering.

I like my women blonde, my Johnny Walker black and my Democrats quivering.

Meanwhile, Boston Mayor Thomas "Mumbles" Menino made the brilliant observation this morning that Brown supporters want Obama to fail.

Gee, ya think?

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has told a largely black congregation that if Democrat Martha Coakley loses the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts, it will be a victory for people who want President Barack Obama to fail.

Coakley, who’s Massachusetts’ attorney general, is in a tight race against Republican Scott Brown. The special election Tuesday is being held to fill the seat left vacant by the death of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy.

Menino appeared with Coakley at a Sunday morning prayer service in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood for victims of the Haiti earthquake.

I thought we weren't supposed to involve politics into the Haiti earthquake?

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