Every time there’s an interim temporary placement for a Massachusetts Senate seat (or… after Ted Kennedy died, and then after John Kerry was tapped for Secretary of State), speculation runs rampant that… maybe… maybe…

Senator Dukakis???

The idea bemuses.

Then, it seems, something always comes around and punctures that balloon.

“That’s a no,” said Dukakis in reference to a possible appointment by Gov. Deval Patrick to fill the seat until a special election can be held. Dukakis also said he had not been contacted by the governor’s office in regard to a possible appointment.

The last line is the crux of the issue here — words are not coming out of the governor’s office.  The “Senator Dukakis” boomlet is all hot air out of the political silly season — it sounds like a cool idea to your politicos, so they run with it.

And so ends Dukakis Mania.

We do have the spectacle of Scott Brown making a political comeback by winning another special election.  That’d be amusing too.

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