If I have been Republican Geoff Diehl, I might open tonight’s gubernatorial debate this fashion:
“My opponent is Joe Biden’s candidate for governor. I would be honored to be yours.”
It is a play on Democrat Maura Healey’s opening remarks on the pair’s final debate wherein the closely favored lawyer common stated, “My opponent is Donald Trump’s candidate for governor. I would be honored to be yours.”
If Healey can tie Diehl to Trump there is no such thing as a motive why Diehl can’t tie Healey to Biden, particularly over the punishing financial distress that Biden and the Democrats have led to.
“Our economy is strong as hell,” Biden stated Sunday, undoubtedly misplaced in his thoughts.
What’s he received to lose? Diehl is the conservative Republican working for governor who Trump endorsed, an endorsement that Healey makes out to be a criminal offense.
If so, it is without doubt one of the few crimes the state’s so-called “chief law enforcement officer” has been keen to prosecute.
She not solely seemed the opposite method when rioters thrashed, looted and torched downtown Boston following the loss of life of George Floyd, however appeared to endorse the criminality.
She stated on the time, “Yes, America is burning. But that is how forests grow.”
While it’s no secret that Diehl campaigned for Trump and Trump in flip endorsed him, what shouldn’t be recognized is whether or not Healey, who campaigned for Joe Biden, has been endorsed by the president. If he has it’s the best-kept political secret on the town.
So far Diehl has been working on a shoestring funds in a liberal state in opposition to an brazenly homosexual girl candidate who has the leftwing media in her pocket. And has extra marketing campaign cash than she will be able to spend.
And she hates Trump. She sued him 100 occasions and is happy with it, regardless that many of the fits went nowhere, however received her loads of consideration, which was the purpose.
If the underdog Diehl has any likelihood of upsetting Healey, he should go after Healey for her assist of Joe Biden and his failed insurance policies, regardless that Healey is reluctant to even point out Biden’s identify.
While Healey introduced up Trump a half dozen occasions to assault him in the course of the first debate, she failed to say Joe Biden as soon as, not to mention defend him.
And with good motive. Nobody working for workplace desires to be seen with Joe Biden or search his endorsement.
That is why Healey was nowhere to be discovered throughout Biden’s final two visits to Massachusetts.
Like Democrat candidates elsewhere, when informed that Biden was coming to their state, Healey stated, “Joe, who?” and left for components unknown.
But if the topic of Joe Biden is to come up throughout on WCVB/Boston Globe-sponsored debate tonight, almost definitely Diehl should elevate it himself, and never depend on any of the woke panelists who’re in Healey’s again pocket.
They might open the talk by asking Healey if she helps Biden working once more, however they gained’t.
And, talking of the hundred lawsuits Healey filed in opposition to Trump as lawyer common, Diehl may ask who paid for them if “they did not cost Massachusetts taxpayers a dime,” as she stated within the final debate.
If the lawsuits, filed by her workplace within the identify of the state weren’t funded by her workplace, then what outdoors group paid for them? Who paid the attorneys who labored on the 100 lawsuits? Did Healey use outdoors activist teams to finance and file them? Was George Soros cash concerned?
This is the second and final debate between the 2, and the final alternative to query Healey about her file as lawyer common.
That is as a result of Healey doesn’t maintain press conferences, takes no robust questions and is given a go by the woke press.
So, it’s as much as Diehl to do the work that the media gained’t do. It’s his final shot.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”