A parting hot take from Barney Frank

You know Democrats have lost the plot when even Barney Frank is saying his party has “embraced an agenda that goes beyond what is politically acceptable.”

The Democrats have gone too far left for even Barney Frank? That tells you a lot.

Barney is 86 years old, and apparently on the way out. He’s in hospice in Ogunquit, Maine, which is basically Provincetown North.

And he’s got a final book coming out that, according to far-left website Politico, is all about “repudiating his party’s left flank.”

Wow. Barney is a guy who as a Congressman lived with a male prostitute named “Hot Bottom.” He paid the jailbird thousands of dollars for his sexual favors, fixed his parking tickets and wrote slobbering letters of recommendation for him.

Barney was first attracted to the rent boy by this classified ad in the gay newspaper in Washington:

“Hot bottom plus large endowment equals a good time.”

It was love at first sight. Eventually, Hot Bottom was cheating on the then-300-pound Democrat, turning tricks in Barney’s own bed. Hot Bottom claimed to the press that Barney was all in on the gag.

Barney, on the other hand, claimed he was “suckered” – a poor choice of words by a guy who was usually very well-spoken.

The point is, how far gone are the Democrats when they’re too crazy even for Hot Bottom’s heartthrob?

In his new, and final home state, Barney endorsed the dreadful septuagenarian Gov. Janet Mills over Graham Platner. Platner is the trust-funded “oyster farmer” and self-proclaimed member of the working class who went to the la-de-dah Hotchkiss School.

Platner has a Nazi tattoo on his chest and is on record as saying, among other things, that Mainers are racist and blacks are bad tippers.

The comrades in Maine have fallen head over heels for Oysterfuhrer Platner. Barney is befuddled.

“I worry a little bit,” Frank fretted, “about the tendency on the Democratic side to fall for the flavor of the month.”

This interview was published Tuesday. Barney’s candidate Mills dropped out of the fight yesterday. She was going to lose, badly. So much for Frank’s fellow travelers heeding his final words.

Now, Barney wasn’t exactly a brilliant policy guy – his crackpot Dodd-Frank banking legislation almost crashed the economy into a new Great Depression.

But tactically, he was a smart politician. He’s got a few quotes that deserve to be remembered. From his own experience with Hot Bottom, he assessed the trajectory of public scandals:

“The first day it’s a disaster. The second day it’s a crisis. The third day it’s a circus.”

I think Mike Vrabel would probably agree with that assessment.

Another observation of Barney’s from his Hot Bottom infatuation:

“Your core constituency isn’t the people who are with you when you’re right, it’s the people who are with you when you’re wrong.”

And then there’s this one, which may be a little outdated now, but was certainly true when Barney first said, back in his early career as a hack coat holder for then-Boston Mayor Kevin White:

“There are only two things that can happen to you if you run for the Boston City Council, and both of them are bad. First, you could lose. Second, you could win.”

Back then, the Council was a dead-end political job. Now, sadly, it’s not, as Mayor Michelle Wu and US Rep. Ayanna Pressley have both advanced from the political Twilight Zone to more important positions.

So now there’s a third option if you run for the City Council: the taxpayers could lose. Big time.

Both Wu and Pressley are from Illinois. It used to be, you had to be at least somewhat local to get elected around here. No longer, and every last one of the blow-in drifters have turned out to be disasters – the fake Indian, Katherine Clark, Maura Healey, Karen Spilka, etc. etc.

Barney was this first of the carpetbagger breed – from New Jersey. Billy Bulger tried to get rid of him, first in the reduction of the size of the Mass. House in 1978, and then in the US House redistricting in 1982. Maybe Bulger saw the horrors ahead.

But it was not to be, and soon Barney was in DC, tip-toeing through the tulips with Hot Bottom. The love that once dared not speak its name could no longer shut up.

Now, on his death bed, Barney tries to caution his “colleagues,” as he calls the Democrats, that it’s not enough to not support open borders or defunding the police.

“My point is, no, it’s not enough… to be silent. We have to explicitly repudiate it.”

Easy for you to say, Barney. You’re going to be dead soon. But you still survived longer than Janet Mills’ political career. Being slightly less insane was not enough.

And it’s the same with Democrats everywhere. Last November, an illegal alien named Rajinder Kumar crushed his truck in Oregon and killed two American newlyweds. Democrats just cut the foreign fiend loose, refusing to honor an ICE detainer. It was left to the feds to grab the illegal for deportation.

As for defund the police, the Democrats are far beyond that. Now they want to free all the murderers with life-without-parole sentences – even killers aren’t illegal aliens.

See Massachusetts and New York.

In California, Barney, your party even wants to criminalize investigative reporting, to stop any media outlets – usually underfunded independents like Nick Shirley – from reporting on welfare fraud.

In Maine, Barney, your governor has been allowing violent male criminals into women’s prisons. In women’s cells, actually. One of the female prisoners just filed a lawsuit saying her male cellmate had threatened to impregnate her.

Sorry Barney, but it’s too late. Your party, as Brit Hume noted the other day, has gone so far out that the buses don’t even run there.

Hot Bottom could not be reached for comment.