my baby's in the white fluffy clouds

Agreed; if the MA Republicans ever ran candidates who weren't strictly less good on all issues (from my viewpoint) than the corresponding Democrats, I might actually be tempted. But the closest they've actually gotten that I recall seeing was a kind of Republican Lite — more moderate than usual, but the same direction. And Brown isn't even that; from what I've seen he's basically a rabid Fox News clone, which is why it's pissing me off that he's getting so much support here *and* that Coakley's campaign is being so utterly useless against him.