Posted on 10/27/2006 1:11:13 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Mitt Romney, this is your fault.
Maybe it’s not all on your head, but as we survey the impending Republican disaster here, your name is at the top of a very short list of suspects.
Poor Kerry Healey. Perhaps she should have told you she wasn’t an Irish Catholic before you picked her as your running mate, but that was four years ago now. We all know it’s a Mitt Romney world, but still, couldn’t you have thrown her a few second-tier assignments? She never got a chance to define herself, because you never let her up for air.
So now you have a situation where a majority of the electorate agrees with her on the issues - taxes, crime, illegals. Yet they’re still planning to vote for Deval Patrick. Because they don’t like her.
Is it fair? Of course not, but you never gave her the opportunity to overcome what she herself calls her Muffy problem, and please don’t remind me who hung that moniker on her.
You want irony? Kerry Healey has become what Shannon O’Brien was four years ago - the woman pol you love to hate. And Deval has morphed into you, Mitt, the slick businessman who’s going to clean things up, wink-wink nudge-nudge. Swift, O’Brien, now Healey - it just doesn’t pay to be a woman in Massachusetts politics, does it?
But the fact is, Mitt, you should have been the nominee, not Kerry Healey. You could have won - just step back from Bush a bit, like Schwarzenegger, or, closer to home, Jodi Rell in Connecticut. They’re cruising to victory, and you would be, too.
When you run for governor, it’s assumed that if you win you’ll seek re-election. It’s an implied promise, and you broke it.
I know, yesterday you had an early-morning press conference and said the state will suffer if Deval is elected. No kidding, Willard. It was too little, too late.
So now you think you’re just going to stroll away from the wreckage, right?
Think again, Mitt. Bechtel will haunt you. It already does. The other night, Dick Morris succinctly summed up your major problem as a presidential candidate: “He just took ownership of a graveyard.”
That would be the Big Dig.
State revenue projections are falling. And Kerry Healey was right Wednesday night - the Dukakis and union hacks are salivating after 16 years in the wilderness.
Higher taxes are coming. Deval is going to need a diversion while he picks our pockets, and that’s where you come in, Mitt. Again, its back to the future - Dukakis I.
In 1975, the Duke claimed he found boxes of unpaid bills left behind by Republican Gov. Frank Sargent. That was why taxes had to be raised, because of the rascally Republicans. Stand by for a new high-tech version of the Duke’s ploy.
You know all those Welducci hacks on the state payroll who you’ve never deigned to talk to since 2003? They know where the bodies are buried, and if they think by ratting you out to their new masters that they can save their jobs, they’ll do it. It won’t help them, but they’ll try it anyway.
This week’s Bechtel fiasco - that had to have been leaked by Republicans. Consider it a preview of coming attractions, Mitt.
Here’s another count in the indictment: Christy Mihos. Sure, you never know when somebody else’s wheels are going to come off. But you could have at least showed him a modicum of respect. Maybe all it would have taken was another term on the Turnpike board to keep him on the reservation.
Christy says you told him he had to shut up about ending the tolls on the Pike, and when he refused, that was when you kicked him down the stairs.
And now, yet another irony - you and Kerry Healey campaign on doing away with the tolls, which is what Christy was fired for proposing.
Thanks for the memories, Mitt.
Sigh...four years of Deval...is there an inkling of hope?
Howeee, Howeee...I will be down for breakfast, and I didn't get the memo,..but could you explain to me again, why Kerry Healey thinks she's got a Muffy problem?
And isn't Deval being promoted as the businessman who's gonna save us all? You think Mass. is a joke now, Mitt, wait till
we get a Moonbat gov and the glory days of Dukakis return.
If anyone on the Healey campaign is watching, I have the perfect ad: Just go back and forth showing Dukakis on the
tank and then a picture of Deval. You don't have to pay for the technology of picture morphing (as seen in Michael
Jackson's "Black or White" video), just simple back and forth.
Hopefully at least the non-moonbats will realize they gotta go to the polls and save us from this guy.
One party government, higher taxes/fees/fines/polls,
hackerama to the max...and Deval will blame the previous
occupant of the Corner Office when things go wrong (as Howie has said).
Once this stuff gets out, it'll take two or three primaries
and Mitt (like J. Kerry) will be all done. He might not even win his home state. That'll be a real joke won't it,
Mitt?
All Mitt Romney for President in '08 supporters on Free Republic seriously need to read this column.
There's something else missing here, Mitt Romney's late decision to not seek re-election as Massachusetts Governor prevented a serious run by the CEO of HarvardPilgrim Health Care, Charlie Baker, from having enough time to mount a serious run for the Massachusetts Governor's seat this year. Charlie Baker wanted to run this year for Governor, but he wasn't going to if Mitt had decided to run again for re-election. Mitt's late decision last summer to not run again screwed everything up for Charlie Baker, who would of been a much better candidate and a much stronger candidate than Kerry Murphy Healey. Mitt obviously wanted to have Kerry Murphy Healey not have to have Charlie Baker as a Republican primary opponent, and Mitt helped Healey out by choosing not to run for re-election but too late for Charlie Baker to make a serious run for Governor. All "Mitt Romney for President in '08" supporters need to ask Mitt all about this too.
The blame will lie with the voters of Massachusetts.
If they want to vote for higher taxes and a governor soft on crime, then they deserve what they get.
And thousands more will move out of Massachusetts.
How many Romney for Prez supporters actually live in the Bay State?
I'm talking about all Mitt Romney for President supporters, not just those in Massachusetts. I'm sure that there are less and less Mitt supporters in Massachusetts as they continue to leave the state in large numbers with Governor Patrick making this state even worse.
Right--what I meant was that the Romney 4 Prez supporters in other states might not be aware of what's going on here. Sure, despite his baggage we could probably accept Mitt vs. any moonbat the Dems put up should he be the nominee, but be aware that some of this stuff
will come up in a Presidential primary season...embarassments to Mitt. He should have either made Kerry H. more visible/
gave her more to do, or even resigned and have her be
Acting Gov. for awhile.
When people in this state see Mitt spending most of his time in other states (for obvious reasons) it can only remind us
of how Dukakis did the same in '88, and more flagrantly,
how John Kerry ignored Senate vote after Senate vote in '04 so he could run all over the country for President. But anyway, if Mitt's failure to help support Kerry Healey results in a Gov. Patrick then we'll really be screwed.
I agree with Howie that Mitt Romney must bear considerable blame for this development. He let his ambition cloud his judgment - a common enough failing for a politician. But worse, he failed to help the Republicans build on past successes when such was still possible. As a result, Mass. Republicans are in worse shape than at any time since 1980, and the dire situation stands to deteriorate further. If there are any Republicans left, that is.
Governor Patrick will help to finish off any chances that Mitt Romney would ever have to ever become President. Mitt's political career will be coming to a close very soon-like it or not.
Whatever is presently left of the Massachusetts Republican Party will be even much less after Patrick is Governor. I wouldn't even be surprised if every present Republican state legislator who has a Democratic opponent ends up losing their seat to the Democrat!
LOL Bob, you have to add "howiecarr" as the keyword or I don't see these!
I still don't buy the polls -- it ain't over 'til it's over.
oh OK, all one word! I do it as Howie, Carr
will do!
Yeah, except he promised to run for one term and one term only. So he KEPT his promise.
Also, Mitt did not take a salary during his four years as Governor. Muffy has pledged to do the same. You don't hear that from the Dims in the media.
Chunk Ross would go up a FEW tax brackets if she became Governor. She's so bitter about the other three having money that it's too funny. I thought I saw Chunk Ross the other day on 495 -- no surprise she was in a Prius with rainbow triangle stickers on the back. I'm guessing she wasn't tuned in to 830 AM from 3-7 if you know what I mean.
...as if the Boston Globe was in favor of a Republican governor anyway. What a sleazy hit piece.
Whoops, Herald.
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