howard brooks, senator from massachusetts, african-american republican. i said he was an african-american senator, the first one, after reconstruction. no disrespect to the one in 1870, 1871 in mississippi. since i just got through reading eric s history reconstruction, i would be gravely in error to know that. we need more people called hiram in politics. i agree. kevin, don t you think i almost said don t you think i m right about something. i caught myself midway through. it has a retorqual gap. this sort of like shouldn t a massachusetts democrat vote for elizabeth warren? well, a massachusetts democrat? yeah. i would think so. a couple of things, i think this whole idea of romney being toxic