Jennifer Nassour, the Chairman of the Massachusetts GOP, is probably having a rough day. Her party fared well across the country in yesterday's midterm elections, but not here in the (still, again) blue state of MA. Scott Brown's election to the Senate seat long held by Ted Kennedy may turn out to be a fluke rather than a symbol of the changing tide of Massachusetts politics.
Yet Nassour was on NPR sounding determinedly optimistic, disagreeing all over the place with the host of Radio Boston, Sacha Pfeiffer, as Pfeiffer asked her if she was disappointed with the election results. She cited the Worcester County sheriff's race won by a Republican, as well as a few other, relatively minor races taken by the GOP. She claimed that Jeff Perry, that lunatic Republican who was the supervisor of a police officer who illegally strip-searched an under-age girl several years ago and who then claimed, over the course of this campaign season, that he wasn't present when it happened and couldn't have prevented it, lost due to a vicious and harmful campaign strategy enacted by the Democrats. Um, Jennifer, you're probably trying to save your own ass right now, but it was your strategy that channeled many MA GOP dollars into that race, and Jeff Perry lost, thank goodness, because even the state's registered Republicans (around 11% of registered voters in MA) probably saw through his bullshit and decided he is not a fit candidate for office. Perry garnered a surprising 42% of the vote (surprising to me, anyway, since he's a crazy asshole), and then he LOST. Hopefully he won't run for anything, ever again.
So, is Jennifer Nassour desperately trying to hold onto some credibility within her party, clinging to her conviction that the Republicans are the guys to trust, even in the lonely landscape of ultra-blue Massachusetts? Is she a transplant from another, redder, region of the country? Did she grow up in a working-class household, where Republicanism translated to "planning for the day we get rich" while continuing to vote for folks who make it more and more unlikely? Or is her family more the country-club shade of Republican? Who knows? Who cares, when Mass GOP candidates had such a poor showing last night? I'm curious about her own brand of picky-ness. Maybe someday she'll grant me an interview, which I'll of course blog about here. Attorney Nassour, are you out there?
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