If Romney's such a nightmare to liberals, why is this man smiling ?
Thanks for electing me Governor last November, Mitt ! Love and kisses, Deval. XXXXX OOOOOOO
Posted on 05/20/2007 6:11:51 PM PDT by Reaganesque
GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY. Good grief. What have we done?
Romney is no Bill Weld. He’s no Paul Cellucci. He’s not even a Jane Swift. Romney is a social conservative. The type of conservative that voters rejected back in 1990, when Weld was first elected over John Silber. But hostility toward reproductive rights, criminal-justice reform, and civil unions or marriage rights for same-sex couples is not the real danger we face over the next four years.
No, the real danger lies in the state budget and what’s going to happen to it now. Romney has blithely promised to hold the line on taxes. It’s a familiar position for a Massachusetts Republican governor to take. Indeed, it’s what Weld, Cellucci, and Swift used to say. Of course, they ran the Commonwealth during the New Economy ’90s, when state coffers were brimming over with revenue from taxes on higher-than-expected incomes and capital gains. That’s not the case in 2002.
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But September 11 quite obviously changed the world in ways we’re still discovering. President Bush won big on Tuesday. War with Iraq — and all the worldwide political and economic instability that will come with it — is now inevitable. Another big winner Tuesday was, quite obviously, Mitt Romney. The biggest losers? People who care about reform. People who care about civil liberties. People who care about more than their own pocketbooks.
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Bump!
This is what Romney’s critics said about him when he was Govenor:
“Romney is no Bill Weld. He’s no Paul Cellucci. He’s not even a Jane Swift. Romney is a social conservative. The type of conservative that voters rejected back in 1990, when Weld was first elected over John Silber. But hostility toward reproductive rights, criminal-justice reform, and civil unions or marriage rights for same-sex couples is not the real danger we face over the next four years.”
What Romney left behind when he abandoned his state to complete Marxist control:
The MA federal delegation is 100% rodent.
The legislature is 89% rodent.
Every statewide office (100%) is rodent.
There’s only 1 city in MA over 35k that has a GOP Mayor (Lawrence).
Do we want Romney to set the NATION on course to such Republican losses ? Fuhgeddaboutit.
Unprincipled flipflopper. Cut and run. Canned, robotic responses. Unqualified. The Precious Willard record.
That's right, liberals. He's your worst nightmare made flesh.
Yup, Michael Sullivan, in office since ‘02.
Has someone checked the temperature in Hell recently? ;-)
If Romney's such a nightmare to liberals, why is this man smiling ?
Thanks for electing me Governor last November, Mitt ! Love and kisses, Deval. XXXXX OOOOOOO
I don't see how that's Mitt's fault. The last Republican to hold the seat Ted Kennedy now holds left office in 1953. The last Republican to hold the seat John Kerry now holds left office in 1979. In Congress, the last two Republican Congressmen left in 1997. The last time Republicans made up the majority of the MA federal delegation was 1959. How is any of that Mitt Romney's fault?
Thats what I keep asking him.
Thats what I keep asking him.
A Governor’s job, as leader of the party, is to either grow it (if a minority) or maintain it (if a majority). He never attempted to change the federal delegation (but the greatest failures there occurred on Weld’s watch), and none of those Republicans (Lodge in ‘52; Brooke in ‘78; Blute and Torkildsen in ‘96) “left” of their own accord.
Romney’s one attempt to do something about the legislative seats in ‘04 resulted in failure. But rather than redouble his efforts, he decided to give up entirely. That IS his fault. He couldn’t be bothered to do something about it because of ONE setback. If he has a similar setback on a particular issue as President that is of vital importance, is this the kind of man we’d want leading us ? I surely don’t.
Wow. The Republican party in MA has been pathetic for nearly 50 years and it’s all Mitt’s fault because of one failure to get Republicans elected six years ago. Mitt must have had a very busy pre-school life, growing up in Michigan whilst plotting the over-throw of the Republican party in Massachusetts by the time he was 10. Most toddlers aren’t that ambitious.
LOL! Well there were some pretty damn cold winters just before I moved away...
Could it be that so much of the state’s GOP has voted the way I did...with their feet? Look at how many of us have high-tailed it out of there for the sunnier, redder climes of GA, the Carolinas, Virginia, etc. NH too, except for the sunnier part...
Reaganesque:
Has someone checked the temperature in Hell recently? ;-)
Hell is a lot cooler since the RedSox won the world series in 2004. :-)
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