[Hemingway's Ghost]

He's right. This state isn't ready to consider a Republican for Senate until something changes nationally to make us ready. We'd need an unpopular Democratic president and something to make New Englanders feel that it was ok to vote for Republicans again. Is that happening soon? I doubt it.

Not necessarily. Outside of Boston and a few pockets of moonbatism (i.e., the Pioneer Valley), I think the right conservative candidate could carry a state-wide federal election, as the suburbs and the rural parts of the Commonwealth tend to be much more non-liberal. Now, the "right conservative candidate" for Massachusetts is probably not the same type of person who'd clean up in the deeply-religious south, for example, but rather, a good, ol' fashioned, frugal Yankee whose conservatism was more libertarian than statist.

[MadIvan]

One possibility is for Carla Howell to run again, and give her the Republican endorsement. As I recall, she's made Democrats uncomfortable in the past.

Regards, Ivan