WAR ON WOMEN: Advocates Livid About Rape Ruling On Gov. Deval Patrick’s Brother-in-Law.

Related: Howie Carr: Deval Patrick’s devotion to riffraff is disturbing.

And it’s not like this is Deval’s first crush on a rapist. How about Ben LaGuer, the Leominster monster who raped and beat a 59-year-old woman in 1983 and then claimed he was the victim of a racist frame?

Deval described him to the Parole Board as “thoughtful and eloquent,” and chipped in $5,000 for LaGuer’s DNA test, which of course confirmed his guilt.

Talk about a war on women — the State House is Ground Zero. What about ex-Sen. Jim Marzilli, the perv in the Prius from Arlington? And ex-Rep. Carlos Henriquez, convicted of beating up his girlfriend? Some things on Beacon Hill never change.

Then there was Deval’s trusted aide Carl Stanley McGee. He was arrested in Florida in 2007 on charges of sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy in a resort swimming pool. The charges were dropped after McGee paid money to the alleged victim’s family — “it was not a big number,” he said.

So then the administration tried to get McGee a new state job at the Mass. Gaming Commission. That didn’t fly, despite McGee’s friendship with Deval.

Actually, it isn’t just rapists Deval seems to have a soft spot for. Remember the Tsarnaevs, the accused Boston Marathon bombers? Two days after the jihadist’s notes were found in the boat in Watertown, Deval went on “Face the Nation” and lied to Bob Schieffer that he had no idea what the motives of “those two young fellas” were.

And how about Ron Bell, his liaison to “the community”? After Bell was arrested for drunken driving in Boston, somehow he was able to secure a job in Lawrence City Hall with Willie “Landslide” Lantigua.

Deval’s driver was named head of the Parole Board. He lasted until he and his cohorts cut loose a career criminal doing life sentences for armed robberies. As soon as the con got out, he killed another cop.

One last point. At the end of his term, there will be one way to know for sure if Deval’s running for president or not: If he pardons his old pal LaGuer just before he leaves office, we’ll know he’s done with politics.

Don’t count on it.

UPDATE: From the comments: “Perhaps the reason Democrats think there is a rape epidemic in this country is because they know a lot of Democrats.”