Reply #4: Or assessed her campaigning talents? [View All]

I think she would make a great senator. But does she know the Red Sox? Can she appeal to the working stiffs? Does she like pressing flesh 12 hours a day? Alas, these are things that people who run for statewide office have to do and, if not like at least act as if they do.

I'm not joking here: Martha Coakley should have been a shoo-in, but she really did an abysmal job of campaigning and it sunk her. (A difference was: it was an extremely short campaign cycle--8 weeks or so, not 18 months, and there was no time for her to recuperate from her gaffes).

She could be great. Or she could be even better as a recess-appointed head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

But if she wants to run for Senate and has the moxie to do it, I say go for it!