The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday. The cause of death: failed leadership. The party is survived by a few leftover legislators and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists who have been ignored for years. Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow. In lieu of flowers, send messages to Republican voters warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney. - Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign. He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate the day before the general election! Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing, [Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]." - Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
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