December 11, 2008
He's not crazy, he's stupid
In his usual well-reasoned and explicated fashion, Michael Barone explains the Chicago political scene, how a really stupid man like Blagojevich is the Governor and what he sees as the possible outcome of all this:
The nightmare scenario for Democrats is a big primary fight on their side, with the Republican nomination going to North Shore Rep. Mark Kirk, a political moderate with a WASPy clean-government reputation that Illinois voters may find attractive after the Blagojevich scandal. Not likely, perhaps, but possible, and not what the Obama administration will need in its early months. All of which is an illustration of my political adage: Nothing is free in politics, but there is some question as to when you pay the price. Obama has profited greatly from his interactions with the Chicago civic establishment. Now he is paying a price.
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