Gov. Charlie Baker is leaving a lot the identical approach Tom Brady did.
With nobody saying goodbye. With no thunderous applause ringing in his ears. With not a lot as a thanks. So a lot for gratitude.
New England Patriots Super Bowl hero Brady obtained no heat applause from the Patriots when he left the group in 2020 after spending twenty years successful for the workforce.
Republican Gov. Baker is leaving the identical approach. Baker, after eight years as governor, is not going to even attend the Republican Party conference in May.
Brady, upon leaving the New England Patriots, at the least went on for extra glory with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Baker’s glory days could also be over.
There will likely be no Baker conference farewell speech, no summing up of his accomplishments, no views of the long run and no endorsement of a possible GOP successor. The get together will get together with out him.
This is the get together that gave Baker its endorsement for governor 3 times.
Baker misplaced his first run for governor in 2010 to Democrat Deval Patrick, however received the subsequent two elections.
But the 2022 Republican Party just isn’t your conventional reasonable/liberal Republican Party of the previous, which Baker epitomized. That Baker-led get together is useless after it grew to become indistinguishable from the Democrats, and Baker was labeled a RINO — a Republican In Name Only.
It didn’t assist that Baker was a staunch critic of fellow Republican and former President Donald Trump.
So, Donald Trump Republicans, led by former state Rep. Jim Lyons, the get together chairman, wrestled management of the get together away from Baker.
The end result was that you simply had a Republican governor unable to regulate the get together he was speculated to be main.
However, Baker was sensible sufficient to know that to get issues achieved as governor he needed to work with a closely Democrat-controlled Legislature. This meant governing as a Democrat.
That made for some awkward Republican politics. While Baker is widespread with Democrats, Independents and liberal Republicans, he misplaced out with Trump supporters who now management the get together.
Lyons stated that regardless of Baker, he believed that Trump’s America first message was per the message of the Massachusetts Republican Party.
Had Baker determined to run for a 3rd time period, he confronted the potential of shedding the conference to Geoff Diehl, the conservative former state consultant who ran unsuccessfully in opposition to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren in 2018.
Diehl, who challenged Baker even earlier than Baker selected to not run, is supported by Lyons, who will management the conference, and nearly all of conservative conference delegates. Diehl has additionally been endorsed by Trump.
The different Republican working for governor is businessman Chris Doughty.
Adding a conservative taste to the conference is the selection of Thomas Homan, the outspoken former appearing director of ICE, as a featured speaker.
Homan has been strongly crucial of Biden’s open-borders coverage.
Baker, in saying his absence, stated it was necessary that delegates hear from candidates who’re working, and never from those that are usually not.
He is mistaken. If something, it’s extra necessary for delegates, in addition to the general public, to listen to from a governor who’s lastly free to talk his thoughts with out worrying about looking for delegate votes.
Eight years in the past, outgoing two-term liberal Democrat Gov. Patrick, who was not looking for a 3rd time period, wowed the delegates on the state Democrat Party conference along with his farewell speech.
In a rousing speech, Patrick had the delegates in a frenzy when he attacked Republican conservatives and “the hard right.”
These are the identical conservatives that took the Massachusetts Republican Party away from Baker. They will likely be on the Republican Party conference.
But Baker received’t. Maybe he ought to ship Patrick in his place.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”