While she doesn't own a house on the Cape, Eileen McNamara comes out against the Cape Wind project, which she calls a "huge industrial development."

She mentions issues with air traffic, ferry traffic, fog. But she says it's...

...also about whether a private, for-profit developer ought to be handed 24 square miles of publicly owned federal land without having to submit to a competitive bidding process.

A bidding process? Does someone else want to build in the middle of Nantucket sound that we don't know about? Maybe a retirement condo complex among the waves?

Anyway, McNamara asks why Romney and Kerry Healey, who vacation in northern New England, might be against the project since they, unlike Kennedy and Reilly, don't have an aesthetic interest in the issue.

Those turbines are about as tall as the Statue of Liberty, but I am pretty sure you cannot see them from either Republican's patio in northern New England.

What's their motive?

Their motive? Duh! How about money? Money equals contributions, equals votes, equals winning an election. You don't have to live on the coast to want to be on good terms with the rich folks who do. An experienced observer like McNamara doesn't get this? I had to read the column several times, just to make sure it wasn't all tongue-in-cheek.