All of us emerged from last week’s holiday fog to the news that Ben Affleck isn’t running for US Senate — but Ed Markey is. Neither fact is especially shocking. A Washington promotion sounds great for a Washington guy. Meanwhile, if you were one of People’s former “Sexiest Men Alive,” wouldn’t you rather hang out with Matt in Pacific Palisades than wrangle every day with Mitch McConnell?
Still, Affleck’s Facebook page remains a tribute to the public’s movie-star-as-politician fantasy: at last count, more than 1,600 “likes” and 250 comments, most of them pleading for Affleck to reconsider. Someone asked him to fix the TSA so she could carry bottled water through the LAX security gates. Senator Ben could do anything!
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Ben Affleck, hope these people are kidding,someone wants him to fix theTSA so they can bring bottle water through security, seriously.
Pah-leeeeeze....Markey is little known outside of his district because Markey has not lived in Massachusetts for decades. He has a straw "residence" for voting/running purposes only. He is a risk averse, self-preserving beltway boy who has asked people/special interests to contribute to him even when he had no serious opponents...thus amassing millions in war chest funds for his own use. He has been on the public dole for 32 years with little other than longevity to show for it. He expediently flip-flopped from pro-life to pro-choice when the political winds, not true conviction, changed. he is a follower not a leader, sad to say as a Democrat who would rather not have Scott Brown elected again. But, Brown will defeat Markey who is a posterboy for term limits.
I was going to comment on Markey, but candlone's comment is what I would have written. My only point of disagreement would be candlone's opinion that Brown would beat Markey. In Massachusetts, at least in Congressional elections, party trumps person almost every time.
Well there's no outer celebrity. I am grateful to the little dweeb for getting rid of Barney Frank, though.
Running Ed Markey is akin to giving Mondale his due and letting him run for President. Scott Brown will swamp Ed Markey. One has a heart beat, the other is a waxen facsimile of a human being. BTW: What has Ed Markey done for Massachusetts as a minority representative?