Seems like I remember Joe Kennedy always starting to run his Joe4Oil ads at the beginning of the heating season – you know, in November. But this year, I hadn’t seen much of anything until late last month, when suddenly I couldn’t get away from his happy face in TV ads bringing oil from that South American philanthropist, Hugo Chavez, to grateful senior citizens. I even saw a couple of billboards in Boston.
I wondered why he was starting to run the ads in the middle of the season. I was wondering if anything had happened. And then it came to me: Scott Brown had just usurped the Kennedy family’s U.S. Senate seat.
Interesting coincidence, no?