In what has somehow been nearly a decade and a half spent as a political journalist, I’ve encountered a lot of election cycle twists. But the one thing I never quite expected was for my boss to run for Congress. Perhaps I should have. After all, if there is anyone who was born to be a political candidate, it is my former editor at the Daily Beast, John Avlon. As a speechwriter for then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Avlon painstakingly composed the eulogies of first responders who died on Sept. 11. He