Demagogue

Years ago, conservatives suffered a hissy-fit when Hillary Clinton announced she would establish residency in New York state and seek the U.S. Senate there. Then, last year, Alan Keyes took a page from Hillary's playbook (albeit with much less success than Hillary), running for a Senate seat in Illinois, but finishing fourth in a two-person race.

Now it's Jerome Corsi's turn. The Washington Post reports:

First he helped torpedo John F. Kerry's presidential campaign by pronouncing the Massachusetts Democrat "Unfit for Command" in a book, subtitled "Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry," that he co-wrote last year.

Now insurance broker Jerome Corsi says he is taking aim at a different target: Kerry's Senate seat.

"I plan to move to Massachusetts later this year and to run against John Kerry in 2008," said Corsi, 58, who is a managing partner at the U.S. Financial Marketing Group and lives in Denville, N.J. "I plan to begin working with the Republican Party to see if I am the candidate they want."

... Corsi (has) apologized for inflammatory postings about Muslims, Catholics and the pope that he made a year earlier on the Free Republic Web site.

"That is old news," Corsi said in a telephone interview this week. "First of all, as I have stated many times, they were written to be provocative, to stimulate debate, not as my true beliefs."

In fairness, it should be pointed out that Corsi has lived in Massachusetts before, but not for quite a while -- 32 years.