Mitt and the Mass-holes

Interesting news from my native Massachusetts, where not even the Republicans, it seems, like Mitt Romney. The latest GOP Mass-hole (sorry to be crude, but that's the only moniker for Bay State residents that's ever stuck) to stab Mitt in the back is none other than Joe Malone, the former state treasurer. (Full, disclosure, when I was in college I worked a paid internship for Malone one summer, mostly ghostwriting op-ed pieces.) Anyway, Malone had backed Rudy Giuliani, but with Rudy now out of the race, Malone is throwing his support behind John McCain. And he's not alone. The Boston Globe reports:

Another Bay State Republican, Paul Cellucci, a former governor who had endorsed Giulani ... is not expected to endorse Romney, according to those who have talked with him since the Florida primary this week. His and Malone's rejection of Romney's candidacy reflect the division within the Massachusetts Republican leadership that is hurting Romney as he works to carry the state in Tuesday's primary election. Jane Swift, another Republican and former acting governor, endorsed McCain early in the campaign.

Kinda sad when a guy can't even find a friend in his home state ...