The Boston Globe has the article Governor’s race has all Democrats leaning left.  The story is on the front page of the newspaper.  I think it would have made an excellent addition to the comics pages.

Missing from this year’s crop, though, is a candidate who fills a long-running role in previous Massachusetts Democratic primaries: a prominent centrist alternative.

This is where the new Globe mapping service must come in.  They have found the center, and they can tell you who is there and who is not.

The candidates need to capture 15 percent of the delegates at the June party convention to qualify for the September primary ballot. In jockeying to obtain the minimum percentage of delegates, La Raja said, Democrats are being forced to prove their left-leaning credentials, often the case in primary races of both parties.

That must mean that the Democrats are so unified ideologically that you cannot even find 15% of the delegates who aren’t way left.  Did you ever see a group of Democrats that could be that uniform?

In 1990, the last time Democrats ran to succeed one of their own as governor, the party nominated Boston University president John Silber, who ran to the middle before losing to Republican William Weld.

If they think John Silber was toward the middle compared to William Weld, I start having doubts about the new Globe mapping system.  John Silber may have been more to the middle than Ted Cruz, but that is not saying much.

The campaign’s only self-proclaimed fiscal moderate, Wellesley biopharmaceutical executive Joseph Avellone, identifies as a social liberal and backs what he calls a revenue-neutral carbon tax long sought by environmentalists.

He is the field’s leading skeptic on other new taxes. But he trails in both public polling and delegate commitments, according to tallies maintained by other campaigns.

I don’t suppose that the fact that nobody knows who Joseph Avellone is could be responsible for why he trails.  I am pretty sure he hasn’t been out to Sturbridge.  See if you can find a picture of Avellone among all the other Democratic contenders for the governors office in the photo album 2014 SDTC Scholarship Brunch Honoring Senator Stephen Brewer.

It might help to refer to RichardH’s post on this blog Diversion–Highway Fatalities and Lemons. The Globe writers and editors could use a good dose of the debunking of the fallacy that correlation is the same as causation.

At the same time, the last decade has brought a cascade of left-leaning policy changes, from same-sex marriage to health care expansion to marijuana decriminalization.

So I guess you can call Mitt Romney left-leaning because the Massachusetts health care reform was started during his administration.  He even claimed the authorship of the idea.

“Eight years of the Patrick administration and a lot of his successes in terms of his political achievements have moved the party to a more left agenda,” said state Representative Aaron Michlewitz, a North End Democrat unaffiliated with any gubernatorial campaign. “And I think our candidates in this race are a microcosm of that.”

How could the Democrats be so ideological that they would want to propose anything that has been “successful?”  Does the Globe think you would get more votes for proposing things that have been failures.  It seems to work for Republicans on a national level.  Then again the national Republicans have the Koch brothers who have been propagandizing for these failed policies for over 30 years.  Maybe The Boston Globe is envious because it has not been as successful as the Koch brothers in gulling the people here as the Koch brothers have been almost everywhere else. You may remember that Marilyn Vos Savant once said in the pages of this newspaper that “You won’t find the word gullible in the dictionary.”

Well, enough hilarity for one day.  Maybe I’ll find something more serious to post.