STATE HOUSE – He's watched the New England Patriots on television with fans at a bar in Springfield. He's raked a homeowner's leaves in Lawrence. And he's knocked on doors on Cape Cod.
Over the past nine months, as the nation has been rapt by the contest to succeed President Barack Obama, Gov. Charlie Baker has been racking up miles across Massachusetts, lending his time, fundraising prowess and popularity to no fewer than 51 different Republican candidates seeking public offices.
Earlier this week, in what is perhaps the best indictment of our ruling class since Angelo Codevilla's book of the same title, Thomas Frank wrote a scathing opinion column for The Guardian. Titled, "Forget the FBI cache: the Podesta emails show how America is run," Frank is blunt about our betters' smug sense of superiority, their overweening egos, their self-serving political machinations and their reeking hypocrisy.
