Governor's Race Getting Complicated. Now Gabrieli Wants to Lose to Healey

It's a dream scenario for Kerry Healey.  Chris Gabrieli declares for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination and slugs it out with Deval Patrick for the least attractive prize of the decade: the spot next to "D" at the top of the next Massachusetts statewide ballot.  The two will walk over Tom Reilly as if he weren't there, and one of them -likely Patrick- will survive the fight, reeling, to take on Kerry Healey.

I hope its Patrick.  Massachusetts isn't going to elect a black lefty to the corner office.  Maybe a black centrist, but not a lefty.

One wrinkle for Healey: this guy.  Go away, pal.  You've got nothing to add.

Lastly, I think the utter failure of Reilly's campaign shows that the Massachusetts political process has gone glossy.  We want big, and expensive, and beautiful, not local worked-your-way up.  I guess that's what the voters thought Romney would be.