I'd have more respect for Romney if he had ran for Governor in 1998 and had two full terms under his belt by now, instead of using Boston as his foot stool for the Presidency in a measly 2.5 years of real work as Governor.
This will be my one and only defense of the Precious one in this thread, but it will serve to prove his hypocrisy. He went all over the state claiming how William Weld, perhaps the single most destructive RINO Governor in the last 50 years, was his political hero. Weld, being the quintessential egomaniacal sociopath, couldn't handle having another Republican who would steal the spotlight from him, and helped sandbag Romney. Weld, despite winning by a gargantuan reelection, did zilch to help other Republicans (sound familiar ?), and we actually had LOSSES in MA in 1994 and barely reelected our then-two GOP House members. Weld just didn't care. Romney's hero. He should've realized then that liberal Republicans only look out for #1, but yet he still subscribes to the mantra. He completed the job started by his hero Weld of burying what was left of the state party by fleeing his job and responsibilities this past January. And now he wants to inflict that damage in DC to the national party. He must be stopped. At all costs.
“You’re supporting a guy who lost to Ted Kennedy, for crying out loud,”
The guy who came closest to beating the one the liberals call their “Liberal lion” in a Democrat-heavy state. An impossible task, actually, but Romney came closest to pulling it off.
It would be great if we had more high-profile candidacies like that.
For example, I would esteem Rudy Guiliani all the more if he went after Hillary in 2006 Senate race, even if it would be an uphill battle.