Gov. Deval Patrick never wanted to be the next attorney general — he’s too busy at the State House settling “all family business,” as the Godfather once put it.

He’s making a list and checking it twice, and Deval knows even better than Santa Claus who’s been naughty or nice, naughty mostly.

You’re fired, Sex Offender Registry Board! And take that critic of the administration’s $1 billion botched Obamacare website rollout with you.

Besides, who wants to be the next Eric Holder if you can be the next Vernon Jordan? Access to any president is worth millions, and Jordan parlayed his well-publicized Clinton cronyism to the max, and now he’s got more money than God.

Drumming up business for himself, not Massachusetts — that’s what all these junkets have been about. Deval might as well have hung a sign around his neck — “For Rent.” Do you really think Deval cares about Massachusetts? C’mon, how many years now has he had his mansion in Milton on the market?

His other mansion, out there in Richmond, the one he built — that’s a weekend getaway. Oh sure, he’ll have a nice $2-million pied-a-terre in the Seaport District, but you’ll see him here about as often as you did before he ran for governor.

(Remember his spotty voting record back then?)

Still, it’s a shame that Deval isn’t going to be nominated for attorney general.

Imagine the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. Sen. Ted Cruz could grill him, under oath, about the exact circumstances of his abrupt departures from both Coca Cola and Texaco, and how much money he pocketed in each of those non-disclosure golden handshakes.

And these national politicians thought Eric Holder had a soft spot for Muslim terrorists, wanting to hold al-Qaeda terror trials in lower Manhattan? How would the statesmen have reacted when they saw the 2007 videotape of Deval describing 9/11 as “a failure of human beings … to love one another?”

Or his appearance on “Face the Nation” after the Boston Marathon bombings blithely lying that he had no idea what the motive of those “two young fellas” was. Or his press conference earlier that week after the Muslim terror attack, warning people not to jump to conclusions that it was a Muslim terror attack.

What about his well-compensated service on the board of sub-prime mortgage lender Ameriquest, one of the architects of the housing bubble his pal Obama likes to blame on greedy Republicans?

And those are just the beginning of the scandals the senators could have asked him about. Right, Crash Murray?

Do you get the feeling that Deval has already checked out, except of course for settling a few old scores on Beacon Hill? He may not care much for Charlie Baker, but his opinion of Marsha doesn’t seem all that much higher.

Remember how Deval tried to promote a boomlet for U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, who is about as qualified for the job as, well, as he was. Then some of his top aides flipped to Juliette Kayyem.

Nah, I don’t think we’ll be seeing much of Deval after he walks down the State House steps in January. Good riddance, but I would have enjoyed hearing Ted Cruz ask him one final question:

“After graduating from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Governor, just how many times did you have to take the bar exam before you passed?”