Poor Seth Moulton the perennial drop-out

Would US Rep. Seth Moulton drop out of the Senate fight and just run for reelection to his safe seat in Congress?

Of course he’ll deny it, right up until the moment when (or if) he throws in the towel. But he’s chickened out of doomed races before.

Remember his dynamic Moulton for President campaign in 2020? Seth certainly hopes you don’t. His quest lasted about as long as Rep. Eric Swalwell’s – approximately 10 minutes.

Moulton seems to be flailing about in this Senate primary, desperately trying to out-TDS the soon-to-be-80-year-old incumbent, Ed Markey.

But “Sen. Moulton” just doesn’t seem to be happening, does it? The longshot Republican candidate, John Deaton, seldom if ever mentions Moulton in his press releases. I called him yesterday and asked why.

“We just did a poll of Democrat primary voters,” Deaton told me, “and Moulton was down 17 points. That’s the bad news. The good news is, when he announced, there was another poll that showed him 19 points behind Markey. So that’s an improvement, I guess.”

But Deaton’s hoping Moulton doesn’t drop out. In 2020, to retain his seat, Markey spent $16 million — $11 million of that in the primary.

The longer Moulton stays in, the more dough Markey will spend, even if it’s only for more of those “trans” colored scarves and mufflers he’s taken to wearing everywhere. They’re a not-so-subtle reminder of Moulton’s non-PC statement that he didn’t want his two young daughters injured when competing in athletic events against “trans women.”

In modern Democrat politics, you can get away with a Nazi tattoo on your chest, but not with saying what Moulton did. The Democrats aren’t not a political party anymore, they’re a cult.

Which is why Moulton just keeps getting crazier and crazier, trying to make amends with the deranged base. But nothing seems to do him any good.

You can’t recant when you’re in a cult. You can try, but the jihadists will still burn you at the stake.

And now Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has become the latest woke office holder to endorse the ancient Markey.

One theory is that Markey won’t run for reelection in 2032 at age 86, and so Wu wants an open shot, which she wouldn’t have if Moulton was 53 and running for reelection.

Same rationale with Wu’s fellow blow-in from Illinois, Rep. Ayanna Pressley. Think how many millions Ayanna’s jailbird ex-con husband can pocket in six more years as an “empowerment” consultant.

Another theory is that if Markey prevails, he will only serve four of his final six years before retiring. The reelected Gov. Maura Healey would then appoint Mayor Wu to the vacant seat. She would have 200 days before a special election, and would be pretty much impossible to beat.

There’s no hurry for Moulton to drop out. The filing deadline for his Congressional seat isn’t until May. Of course, his return to the Congressional race would be quite a blow to the various has-beens and never-weres now running to fill the vacancy.

But so what? You know who pulled the exact same trick, way back in 1984? None other than then-Rep. Ed Markey.

The Senate seat was open – incumbent Paul Tsongas wasn’t seeking reelection. Then-Lt. Gov. John Kerry was running away with the primary.

Markey panicked when he realized he was about to lose the best job he’d ever have. So he bailed, jumped back into the Congressional fight. Made it kind of tough on the State House hacks who’d hoped to succeed Markey, but hey, they got over it.

I mean, Mike Barrett was a young state rep who gave up his seat to run. It didn’t take long for him to wedge his snout back in the trough. Now he’s a 77-year-old state senator, doddering around the State House. Like Markey, they’ll need the Jaws of Life to pry Barrett out of office.

Moulton’s got something like $3 million in his campaign account, about the same as Markey. That’s more than enough to scatter all the wannabes.

It’s likely that Moulton still fantasizes about a mega-upset. He did run for president in 2020, after all. And have you seen video of Markey wandering unsteadily around the Capitol?

He’s almost as shaky on his feet as Biden was. Obviously, Moulton would love to get him one-on-one in a televised debate, hoping that Mr. Frosty might come across like Dementia Joe in that 2024 debate against Trump.

Intellectually, Markey is cut from the same below-average cloth as Biden, but he’s not quite as far gone. At least I don’t think so. And Markey will certainly never agree to any debates before May 5 – the filing deadline for Moulton to run for reelection to the House.

Moulton looks like he’s sweating. Last week, at a food-stamp press conference in Lynn with Rep. Jim McGovern, he suddenly took a powder rather than answer questions from reporters.

What was he afraid of? This was just after he’d announced he was bringing an illegal alien to last night’s State of the Union. Why did Seth suddenly decide to take it on the lam, rather than take a victory lap for inviting an illegal to the speech?

It would be an embarrassment for Moulton to drop out now – just like it was a humiliation for Markey back in 1984. Markey folded after doing a TV interview in which he had no clue which side the US was on in Nicaragua, after which he and his then-girlfriend got into a domestic spate at the Oak Grove station in Malden.

But look on the bright side, President, er, Congressman Moulton. Just 29 years after having to drop out of his first statewide run, Ed Markey finally made it to the US Senate, after Kerry resigned. His first vote was a “present.” Of course it was!

Moulton is 47 years old. If he must wait 29 years to get to the Senate, the way Markey did, he’d still be only 76 – three years younger than Markey is now.

Markey vs. Moulton. Isn’t there some way they can both lose?