Kerry, come on in for a moment. Take off your sneer and stay a while. I need to tell you something that your staff apparently isn't willing to say: You've already gotten further in Massachusetts politics than you ever had a right to expect....
Your private-sector career pretty much involved working in a cubicle at a Cambridge consulting company and teaching a couple of courses at colleges that are hardly a threat to anything on the Charles.
And then you became lieutenant governor for Mitt Romney because -- and let's be especially honest here -- pretty much every black or female Republican of any prominence told him no....
But the problem is -- well, the problem is actually you, or at least your performance over the last few weeks.
On your best day, you're uptight. Usually, you just seem furious. Your speeches have turned into lectures. Your assertions are always accusations. The world according to Kerry Healey is a dour place indeed.
So allow me to offer an unsolicited observation: No matter how bad you make your opponent seem, no matter how many millions of dollars worth of attack ads that you run, Massachusetts is not going to elect a governor who looks like she spends half her days wandering the laxative aisle of the local CVS....
You should be flying high that you ever got this far in a system that has eaten up a whole lot of people a whole lot more qualified than you.
Until and unless you loosen up, voters are going to be left with just one question in this campaign: What's this woman got to be angry about?
