Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan could have been the most powerful lawmaker in town if he would have shed his Republican label and run for the Senate as an independent, a Washington Post columnist wrote Monday, adding that Hogan “apparently doesn’t have that kind of courage.” That was a mistake that will cost Hogan columnist Matt Bai’s vote. “For all his defiance, when it really mattered most, Larry Hogan chose the path of party tribalism over the harder road of going it alone. Which is why I won’t vote to send him to the Senate, and why I’m guessing he’ll never get there,” Bai wrote in an ana…