C’mon Joe, do you really expect us to believe you are leaving such a critical decision (Beau’s race entry) in the hands of a News Journal scribe and second hand pressure from the commoners?  Really?  We’re looking for the turnip truck we just fell off of.

Looks to us that you have adeptly set the table for two different meals; now that is a politician!  On one hand we have the “I want Beau to run but don’t want to pressure him in a direct public way.”  This gives him the choice and a backdoor at the same time…perfect…well struck.

And on the other hand you’ve set an equally appealing table for the Beau man to excuse himself from by stating on the record “that Beau doesn’t want to run.” Are we expected to believe there wasn’t a lil Verizon pow wow where you intimated that you would glibly throw that out such information?  Shouldn’t Beau be the one to hold a press conference and tell us all that he doesn’t want the seat?

C’mon Joe, we may have been born at night…but not last night.