To the editor:

With the 2009 election cycle now past, it may very well be a forecast of what is to come in November of 2010.

It was an embarrassment to the Obama administration losing both gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia to conservative Republicans. Next up is the midterm election of 2010 for the Obama administration in which all of the U.S. House seats will be up for grabs and some in the U.S. Senate could turn the political tide in Washington in favor of the GOP — hopefully the more conservative variety of Republicans.

With all the controversy behind the recently passed $787-billion stimulus package passed by the left, and more recently the perverted version of the health care bill passed by the House, Democrats are not the most popular people out there in American politics.

Even here in the Bay State, where the gubernatorial election is slated for 2010, polls show folks are not all that happy with Gov. Deval Patrick.

Now, there's a three-party battle brewing for that office.

Sadly, neither of the Republicans vying for their nomination, Christy Mihos and Charlie Baker, are true conservatives, but rather RINO members of the GOP. State Treasurer Tim Cahill is also running for governor as an independent.

Campaign promises broken by Gov. Patrick — from his failure to deliver on his property tax reduction to changing the way things are done up on Beacon Hill — are too many to mention. Under his watch just this past year the state sales tax went up to 6.25 percent — typical liberalism by Patrick and his Democratic cohorts in the hack-filled Legislature.

David R. Beaupre

Lynn