Mass. Governor Deval Patrick's approval rating nears zero

Watch for Hussein to give his very dear friend,Coupe Deval (that’s his nickname here),a juicy job at the Department of Just Us,opening up the RAT nomination to an equally worthless and slimey candidate...who’ll get 66% of the vote on election day.

He will be reelected, mark my words.

See post #41...brought to you by a lifelong resident of the Gay State.

Romney was nothing more than a passing theatrical bit player in the on-going comic farce that is MA politics.

If only Massachusetts politics was as "benign" as you describe.

It still existed, weak, but still breathing in 2002. Remember, from its beginning in the 1850s until 2006, the GOP had (at least) 1 or more federal or statewide officeholders in MA (for a century, they were the clear majority, since the state was one of the premier Republican ones in the nation, even holding in the midst of the Depression). The 2006 election marked the first time - ever - that the GOP at a general election had no Republicans winning an office of substance.

Slick Willard’s solemn promise, one of his central planks, was to make the GOP viable and successful again (the only real reason to vote for him in ‘02), which was a complete and total lie on his part (along with everything else). He had no intention of leaving anything when he exited in ‘06 (especially via his annointing of an unelectable cypher as his Lieutenant over a man who was ready, willing, and able to carry on - Jim Rappaport). So yes, Slick Willard finally accomplished what no openly-serving Democrat in the commonwealth, he buried the GOP opposition party. William Weld came close, but Slick finished the job.

“Benign” is perhaps the LAST word I’d use to describe MA politics. It is an ugly corrupt business in the most elemental sense of the phrase.

Tim Murray would then become Governor, of course...

“Benign” is perhaps the LAST word I’d use to describe MA politics.

If you're as familiar with Massachusetts politics as am I you understand that a "comic farce" is benign by comparison! ;-)

To clarify:

MA Republicans = comic farce

MA Democrats = ugly corrupt business

:-]

Ilook at it in a rather different way. The Democrats have held veto-proof majorities in both houses of the MA legislature since the Pleistocene Age. One that basis, how does one argue that the Republican party has been remotely viable in MA?

Jim Rappaport’s chance for governor? </= 0, short of divine intervention.

I’ve discussed this and written about it ad infinitum. Go look up my posts on the subject, some of which I recall writing to you. The GOP was within 4 seats of control of the State Senate in the early ‘90s, competitive for half the Congressional seats, U.S. Senate, even statewide. Hardly the mark of a dead party (indeed, my state’s GOP was in worse shape at the time). Flash forward through 16 years of incompetent leftist RINO Governors, and the party is dead.

As for Rappaport, he was a credible candidate, and one who was actually serious about winning. But like I said, Slick Willard wanted no one to challenge or question him or any strong people around him. He couldn’t have done more for the MA Democrat party if he served openly as the Democrat that he truly is (ditto Weld, another Democrat agent, who didn’t even attempt to hide that he was a total phony with his endorsement of the False Messiah).

Nice little stunt. Maybe we should start running GOP agents in the Democrat party to maximize damage and help our cause. Problem with that is that the rodents always smoke out any such efforts, while we fall all over ourselves to promote these Socialist phonies all in the cause of “electability.”

Romney did not collect a salary other than $1 while serving as Governor of MA. That is about the only thing he did, however.

(So yes, Slick Willard finally accomplished what no openly-serving Democrat in the commonwealth)

Romney’s student, Meg Whitman, is out raising her Rodent opponents in the Golden State. If Whitman wins the Governorship, then Romney will brag what a party builder he is. Of course, Romney was a lousy GOP Governor chair in 2006.

Haley Barbour and Tim Pawlenty are running the GOP Governors Association. If we make a killing in the Governor races, then the Presidential stocks of both Barbour and Pawlenty rise.

Installing liberal Democrats pretending to be “R’s” ain’t party-building. Barbour I at least have respect for. Pawlenty has been a disaster in MN, a Slick Willard Lite.

With all due respect, how exactly would you describe a Republican party that nominates 16 years worth of “incompetent leftist RINO Governors” and has failed to make the slightest dent in the state legislature for six decades?

Uh, cuz that’s what we DO here in the BAy State. Just look at good ole Chappaquiddick Ted. I am sure when he kicks the bucket he’ll have a hero’s funeral, too.

We really are Massholes.

Failed to make a dent ? I just told you we were within reach of grabbing control of the State Senate in the ‘90s. The party believed at the time that Weld could lead it back to the majority, but little did they know he had no intention of doing any such thing, which only became apparent after its effects were felt. We had a prime opportunity in the ‘90s to change the culture of corruption and statism there, and enough of a movement to do so, but we had the wrong people at the helm - people with more sinister motives. The result still the same, a dead party a decade later.

Like all RomneyBOTs and Romney knob-polishers, Blutarski ignores what
Romney really did, instead makes up stories about how bad Massachusetts is.
Sort of like Obama.
The Bishop Romney is another sociopath with Munchaussen by proxy like his twin Obama.

As in Mass, the GOP was ahead, at least until
the Bishop Romney decided to backstab the GOP in both places.

The McCain/Palin ticket was up 8 pts. days prior to September 18th.
Obama was losing until the DNC played their October surprise on the economy
and the RomneyTeam attacked Gov. Palin and her children to throw Election2008.

David Frum: "Frum was indeed a critic of Palin, calling her nomination a "huge mistake" during an October 13 Early Show appearance."

David Frum: "Two of our most plausible candidates for president in 2012 are leading Mormons: Mitt Romney and Utah governor Jon Huntsman."

David Frum: "I have a lot of regard for Mitt Romney as a man and politician.
Let me say for the record: If Romney emerges as the Republican nominee, I will support him without qualm."

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

..... Having lived in MA all my life, I have detected nothing in the MA Republican Party that resembles strategy, competence or effective leadership. They are a hapless bunch of disorganized, individually ambitious, cocktail party political dilettantes who like to think of themselves as politicians, but who are patently uninterested in doing the work to become successful at it.

They have occupied a minority position in both houses of the MA legislature for nearly SIX DECADES - most of that time as an utterly ineffectual presence unable in either house to even contest a veto overrride. In terms of statewide elected offices, Republicans are museum curiosities at any level below the governorship. Only three explanations for such a state of affairs can possibly avail: stupidity, incompetence, or terminal cognitive dissonance. The only time the Republicans ever even came close to making any meaningful advances was with the great political winds of Hurricane Reagan at their backs; when those winds receded, the MA Republicans once again simply collapsed into their customary indolence.

Those RINO politicians that you say betrayed the party are the very same individuals nominated by them. These “betrayals”, as you describe them, have occurred not once, but on multiple occasions. This is not an accidental pattern. Think about it. It is endemic to the party itself.

...the other half comprised of alcoholic re-TAH-ded “Sawx” fans.

Hey,wait a minute pal! I am *NOT* an alcoholic!!!