I KNOW Matthews....or rather I know his ilk.  He likes to claim Philly roots.  He's a suburban elite...he went to private prep schools and was reared in a part of the burbs that looked their noses down on those of us from the steel towns.  
He was of the "Grace Kelly" ilk (not that Ms Kelly was a bad person but many of the Irish catholics of that area and era elevated her as the icon of their goals.....rich, beautiful, and living in areas where the rest of us had parents and grandparents who worked as the gardeners, the housekeepers).

Matthews, Buchannan, and all that MSNBC crew of the Catholic boys club have this built in misogyny and they totally looked down on other ethnic groups.  

I remember going to mixers at the catholic prep schools (our parishes arranged for us to "mix" with those nice catholic boys).  Their arrogance was palatable especially toward those of us who happen to be Italian or Polish (the old prejudices of our parents had not yet left some of those my age).  Every time Matthews drooled over the "Guiliani" stereotype he had in his head, I got it. He was using his mental stereotypes of Italian mobster that he both admired and loathed.

 Don't get me wrong.  I despise Guiliani but it was Matthews stupid "tough street guy" meme that was laughable.  Guiliani, Scalia, Aliton are the worse icons I can think of when it came to people like my immigrant parents who left their homeland to get away from fascist mentality.

Matthews admires the macho man still. He is the classic male of that era of the Catholic church, permanently STUCK in the arena of paternalistic, religious dominance of all unlike him.

Can you think of anyone running for office temperamentally less qualified?

We know that he is a sexist, and possibly a misogynist.  We know he interrupts people as they speakW we know he has comprimised any journalistic integrity he might have had by admitting on Morning Joe that it is his job to help the Obama presidency succeed.  We know over the years he has berated his guests, and has practiced selective listening.

"Matthews will have to be careful if he really does want to run for the senate as a Democrat.
I'm hoping against hope that he does and gets a well-deserved dose of the medicine he's been dispensing.  He'd probably be taken out in the primary but in fact it might be more useful to bury him in the senate where showboats are sometimes shunned.

Don't know how he'd survive without the limelight of a weekly television show or two."

Speaking for me only

The guy's a jerk but if he can win and his presence bolsters Ted Kennedy, Jack Reed, Pat Leahy etc., I can stomache it.