On Sept. 19, half of Massachusetts’s democrats voted Deval Patrick to be the Democratic nominee in the 2006 Massachusetts gubernatorial election. This outcome is not all that surprising to me. Hey, he seems like a good guy — young, articulate and able to overcome adversity. He probably will make a great governor.

What is surprising to me, however, is that Patrick won every town in Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket. It is very surprising to me — almost ludicrous if you will — that a man who supports the Cape Wind project gleans so much support from an area of the state where one finds opposition to said project.

When I saw that Patrick had solidly won the primary, it reconfirmed my trust in man. People, generally speaking, do not oppose the wind project. In fact, 80 percent of Massachusetts voters are in favor of the Cape Wind project. Heck, in Oak Bluffs on Martha’s Vineyard — a town that is only nine miles away from the proposed site of Cape Wind — 63 percent of the voters voted for Patrick.

Gabrieli supported the project as well. If you factor Gabrieli into the equation, Gabrieli and Patrick together comprised more than three-fourths of all the votes cast. So what is standing in Cape Wind’s way?

Let me hit you with a little bit of truth — people, breathing human beings with souls, are not opposed to Cape Wind, politicians and political organizations are opposed to Cape Wind.

Normally I don’t like to use profane language in my columns, but I’m going to say it: special interests. They’re destroying our country one lobbyist at a time, but this time I think they’ll come up short.

Opponents argue that Cape Wind will destroy ecosystems — specifically that of fish and bird species — that are already in place. It just boggles my mind to think that there could be people opposed to wind power, a clean energy, because it could have adverse effects on the environment.

Am I on crazy pills? No, I’m not, but I tell you who must be — Governor Mitt Romney and Senator Ted Kennedy. I am not surprised about Kennedy, because he’d be able to see the project from his residence. Not only that, but he’s a bum and has been for the last four decades.

And for Romney, well, he just blew his chance to ever live in the White House. In the world of politics, your past tends to bite you in the ass. But don’t blame these two because you’d be giving them too much credit.

Blame the Massachusetts Fishermen’s Partnership for placing obstacles in an effort to prevent a noble effort to save the environment and reduce consumption of foreign oil. Also, blame preservation groups like Three Bays Preservation and Save Popponessett Bay.

These are the same groups that scream about oil companies polluting waterways, those companies that decimate fish and shellfish populations, and yet when a clean alternative is presented, they oppose it?

Basically, fishermen are pissed that they won’t be able to utilize 60 percent of Horseshoe Shoal once the wind farm is built, and preservation societies are pissed because it involves change — even though it is a change for the better.

And don’t even get me started on the fools who talk about how the windmills will ruin their view. Any critic who cites this as a reason to stop the project should be strapped to the blade of a windmill, spinning round and round until the centrifugal motion forces some sense into their vacant heads.

These are the people who clamor for clean air, clean water, less dependence on foreign oil but can’t stomach the solution when it hits close to home.

Not in my backyard, they say, and in reality it is not even that close to home. The nearest point of land to the Cape Wind project is over five miles away.

At home in New Jersey, I live less than two miles away from windmills. I can see them from my bedroom window. For me, they are not an eyesore, but rather a symbol of hope. When tourists drive into Atlantic City, they notice that the tallest structure is not a casino, but rather a windmill, it promotes a sense of moral responsibility even in the unlikeliest of places.

And above all of this political muck, the fact is that the Cape Wind project promotes a more responsible worldview. The United States is at a point in its history where things really have never been better. We who live in this country at this moment are the recipients of a strong global economy and a very high standard of living.

However, we also understand the latent defects that might challenge our future. International diplomacy, the War on Terror, dependence on foreign oil and global warming are all major, interrelated issues that will dramatically shape our world for generations to come.

Cape Wind is a step in the right direction. Instead of getting energy by going to war, we are inheriting wind — something clean, renewable and virtually free. I’m tired of seeing soldiers die for gasoline.