Friday, September 5, 2008
He needs support to beat John Kerry for US Senate, and Jeff Beatty is no joke candidate. Chatham Republicans notes:
...Kerry has been in the Senate for 24 undistinguished years, occasionally popping up in Massachusetts news for wind-surfing and bar hopping in Nantucket. Kerry fatigue is working in Beatty's favor and the idea that Massachusetts would benefit from two-party representation in Washington could be catching on.
They point out James Taranto's hand-shake with Beatty at the RNC:
...Beatty gives us his card, which lists on its reverse an impressive list of credentials: Delta Force, Purple Heart, FBI hostage rescue, CIA counterterrorism, "safe schools expert," small businessman. (Actually, he wasn't that small.)
Kerry has held that seat for 24 years, and Massachusetts last elected a Republican to the Senate in 1972, when Sen.-elect Joe Biden was a scant 29. Beatty has an uphill climb.
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I'm a fairly well-informed voter and this is the first time I'd even heard his name. Whenever Kerry commercials come on (not infrequently) my wife asks if anyone is even running against him.
I realize he has almost no money, but can't he at least send a single mailing to registered Republicans?
And that's a damn shame. It wouldn't surprise me if the answer were no, they don't have money, but I can't say for sure.