Now that Democrats have sorted themselves out, let’s take a look at their man—Deval Patrick.  Deciphering Mr. Patrick’s website is not really that difficult.  It’s a mishmash of contradictory policies, doublespeak, and things that just won’t work.  For example, here is his take on healthcare:

I see health care as a common good - like clean air, safe streets and effective education - and so I believe that government has a role to play in assuring that the conditions exist for the health care system we all want.

Translation:  Mr. Patrick favors socialized medicine along the Canadian single payer system.  How much is that going to cost the state?  Canadian healthcare is a disaster.  How does he propose avoiding a similar result here?

And interestingly enough, taxes are not even listed as a major issue on his website.  Think your property taxes are too high?  Deval Patrick doesn’t.  Want your state income tax rolled back to 5% like the voters approved?  Deval Patrick doesn’t.  In fact, every issue and solution he mentions involves more spending so forget about significant cuts because taxes are going up.

Next, we have the interesting conundrum of exactly how he’s going to create jobs without altering the state’s tax and regulatory environment.  Instead of pledging to make regulations less onerous for business, he has offered to limit those processes to no more than 6 months, but what business can wait that long in a globally linked economy?  And how exactly is he going to get venture capitalists to invest in the state and wouldn’t they do so anyway if it made sense without his “prodding”?  How is he going to make operating in the state more attractive when he also wants businesses to help build affordable housing by contributing to his plans?  He wants to tighten enforcement of the labor laws, which is another expense that business must shoulder.

Worried about illegal immigration?  Deval Patrick isn’t.  It isn’t a major issue on his site, nor is it mentioned in his Issues Overview or Press Releases.

Think murderous thugs deserve the death penalty.  Deval Patrick doesn’t.

His website is chock full of inconsistencies and policies that simply don’t mean anything.  Deval Patrick is simply not the right man for governor.  Let’s hope the voters in the general election see it too.

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