Beatty at 15,813 and counting

Republican Senate hopeful Jeff Beatty is now well and truly secure on the primary ballot in Massachusetts. 15,813 signatures have been submitted and more are on the way. So far, his primary challenger, Jim Ogonowski, has failed to break the 10,000 threshold.

Hopefully Beatty will be able to retire the irksome and ineffective John Kerry, who recently had the audacity to suggest that McCain was "out of step with history and facts" -- of course, that was just after suggesting that the US was at peace on September 11th (via Andy Barr on The Hill's blog):

Asked to clarify his remarks, specifically asking about the attacks on the U.S.S. Cole [...], Kerry said, "well, we hadn't declared war".

Asked if al Qaeda was a threat at the time, [he] said, "well yes, obviously they were a threat. But, fundamentally we were not at war at that point in time."

And he wonders why he lost the election.