I live in MA. I know people who have worked for him. In terms of back office administration, he's great. He took a bloated bureaucracy and persuaded liberals to reorganize and improve operational efficiency.
Politically, though, he did his best to hold back the tide against a Democratic legislature and still fell short. I may think he's a better choice than say, Tancredo or Newt, but I don't think he has what it takes to change a national course.
That, I think, is a real concern. But he is clearly one heck of a manager.
Thanks, I was having fav.opinion of him than McCain, but his latest comment about Prez. was upsetting to me.
I don't think this election is the time to be looking at changing the national course. Right now I think we're in a pause as the rough edges of the Conservative Revolution have been knocked off. Our own fringe elements on the right have been largely dealt with, people like Buchanan, Falwell, Barr, maybe even DeLay (though I think he got railroaded unjustly). There are a few who are still pretty far out there, but they are largely relegated to fringe status.
Despite what the DBM and moonbats are trying to say the last election wasn't about Iraq or rewarding the left. It was about the most conservative elements of the conservative coalition punishing the Republicans for not being perfect. They had their temper tantrum and I think now most of them regret it, particularly since truly good conservatives like Santorum and Allen got thrown out too. It was baby and bath water time. And worst of all the truly ugly RINOs are still there, like Hagel.
The Dhimmicrats have also badly overreached IMHO, with Nazi Pelosi acting as America's Mother in Law, John Murtha even making the Washington Post question his sanity and competence and Jon F'n Carry being Jon F'n Carry just three examples. They have an even uglier cast of characters than our bad actors and their act is beginning to rub the American people the wrong way. Worse they can't get anything done and any attempt to point the finger at the Republicans only highlights how obstructionist they themselves have been for the last six years.
No, this next election needs to be about competence, about cleaning up "bloated bureaucracy and persuad(ing) liberals to reorganize and improve operational efficiency." There needs to be a pause in the ideological combat at the margins while we concentrate on actually cleaning up some of the obvious problems in the bureaucracy. Romney is clearly the most able candidate in that regard, not only given his history as Governor but his turnaround of the failing Olympics in Utah and the businesses he did the same thing to out in the real world. I don't think the American people are ready to embrace the moonbats who are now in charge of the Dhimmicrat party but they don't want to turn right back to the right again.
They long for someone who doesn't promise an immediate resumption of the struggle between right and left and concentrates on just getting things done. Clinton sold that notion in '92, but then it turned out he was incompetent at everything but public relations (and lying).
Settling for competence is about where most of the nation is this time around, so long as the left doesn't gain more power. And if they don't then that's about the best we can hope for in the immediate future. We need to catch our breath and find new leaders who truly can carry the banner of Reagan because they believe in it, not because it's the expedient thing to do politically. Better yet we may find someone with a broader vision that builds on Reagan's legacy and takes us to a new place. But we need time for that to happen.