Rhetoric trumps realism in campaigns for governor

Michael Widmer adds that, so far in the campaign, "political rhetoric ignores reality" in that all three candidates - Baker, Patrick and state Treasurer Tim Cahill, running as an independent - vow to cut taxes but don't say how they will close an impending $2 billion budget gap for 2012. "It's surreal. It's as if we were in the 1990s and were in a booming economy," he says.