Posted on 01/31/2008 2:49:42 PM PST by Leisler
Former Gov. William F. Weld says fellow Republican Mitt Romney can withstand a hometown snub by Bay State voters in presidential balloting next week by simply dismissing the diss as little more than moonbat mania.
“I think people understand when you’re a red governor in a blue state that you have to work with the Democrats, which I think is a good thing,” said Weld, who was governor from 1991 to 1997.
Asked whether his State House successor has to win Massachusetts in his bid for the presidency, Weld, a Romney backer, said, “Not in my view.”
In fact, the former governor predicted, Arizona Sen. John McCain has a good shot in this region.
“Sen. McCain will probably run well in the Northeast; Gov. Romney will run well around the country,” said Weld in an interview with the Herald yesterday from California.
Few polls have been conducted in the Bay State. Romney led among Republicans in a State House News Service survey released Jan. 16. But unenrolled or independent voters - who outnumber Republicans and are key in the Bay State primary because they can cast ballots for either party - prefer McCain 47 to 20 percent.
The independents who helped Romney beat Democrat Shannon O’Brien in 2002 have largely turned on Romney, said Suffolk University pollster David Paleologos.
“And now, they basically have the ability to determine whether Romney will carry Massachusetts,” he said.
A Jan. 24 SurveyUSA poll conducted for WBZ-TV found Mitt Romney with a stronger lead at 50 percent followed by McCain at 29 percent. Romney also led among independents in that poll.
Weld projected the race for GOP nominee would go all the way to the Republican National Convention, scheduled for September in St. Paul, Minn.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said Romney would be “laughed out of the race” if he can’t carry his own backyard.
Romney supporter and state Sen. Robert Hedlund (R-Weymouth) said he considered that Romney might not take the Bay State, but added, “It’ll certainly be embarrassing if he doesn’t.”
Hedlund blamed both the media and Romney’s handlers. “There’s definitely been a conscious effort to package (Romney) differently, but McCain has reinvented himself a number of times and hasn’t been called on it,” Hedlund said.
But Greg Mueller, a GOP strategist and ex-aide to former conservative presidential hopefuls Pat Buchanan and Steve Forbes, also believes Romney can survive a home-state loss.
“Massachusetts isn’t a conservative state, and I don’t think Romney is trying to appeal to those center-left states,” Mueller said. jvansack@bostonherald.com
“NOT a propaganda machine because it is ALL the newspapers
in Romney’s home state.”
Like I said, two newspapers. you made it sound as though there several as in more than two and the word ALL would include outlying rural areas as well unless you mean Boston not Mass! and as a medic my sense of smell is better than my vision (20/20 both eyes reality/proverbially) and I could smell the BS in this thread long before I opened it!
Massachusetts politics, probably coming to the entire U.S. very soon! If you really want to know what it’s like to have the Republican Party as a profound minority for several decades and counting, then all you have to do is seriously look at the ongoing politics of both Massachusetts and Rhode Island! Mitt Romney should frequently say what’s coming the U.S. way if either McCain or any Democrat takes over the White House along with a Democratic majority in both Houses of Congress. Mitt never uses the ongoing problems with Massachusetts politics as a possible foreshadowing of things to come to the entire country!
sounds more like McCain than you know...the difference is Romney doesn’t have a record of border opening bills and reduction of constituinal rights on his plate.
I just wanted to say it again.
We dislike Joe Isuzu Romney because he’s a sleazy liberal liar and a destructive farce that helps the Democrat cause wherever he goes.
nice drive by. I like the straight-forward way you dodged the issue. just like other naysayers for Romney.....can’t handle it when compared to a real Liberal....McCain.
we’re following the leader, the leader, the leader. We’re following the leader wherever he may go.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962837/posts
I’m not excusing McCain, I’m not supporting him. But for Conservatives to believe for half-a-second that Romney supports their cause, I’m here to tell you that he doesn’t. He enjoys lying to people’s faces to get himself elected. I thought it was cute when he did it when he ran against Ted Kennedy in 1994 since they were a bunch of rodent morons he was doing it to. I stopped thinking it was cute when he did the same thing to Conservative Republicans.
The only positive I can say for McCain is that he may choose SC Gov. Mark Sanford as his running mate. Sanford is a younger and more attractive Fred Thompson and one of our best Governors in the country. McCain will croak in his first term and we’ll get Sanford as President. If Romney ends up as President, the only thing that will die won’t be him, but the GOP. He’ll exterminate the party to the last and then hand over the Presidency to Obama. He already did that in MA, only the Obama up there is named Deval Patrick.
When trees get sick, people, societies, polities, they succumb to opportunists, much like Mass to Mitt.
You're just doing fine by me. Keep going.
So you think that McCain would be better even though you don’t support him? Nice. McCain will do no less damage to the GOP than Romney the only difference is that Romney, even if fake, has had a change of heart whereas McCain still thinks that everything he has done is right and good and he is still getting the support of all the other”moderates” and in bed with those on the “other side of the aisle”. Living in the southwest and having to learn spanish to communicate is why I still think Romney is the way to go. With McCain in the oval office, he will be waiting to with his pen to sign a copy of his own legislation whether it be limiting the 1st Amendment or Amnesty.
“You’re just doing fine by me. Keep going.”
I know and I will. try debating instead of drive-by’s and smokescreen....it usually works better to get your point across than simple childrens games.
This article tries to play it as if Romney didn't poll right now 50 to McCain's 29. At the same time independents are allowed to vote either party and registrations can still be changed as far as I know.
As far as you Romney haters go, this group of whiners quoted in this all had something they lost - a cozy inside connection to the top pol. They weren't used to it so that even "conservative" papers like the Herald have been Romney busting. Of course bitching always sells and the Herald could buttress their "compassion" by making every dig under the sun against Romney so as to guarantee the, "See, even the Herald..." storylines in rival broadsheets and off the tip of liberal tongues.
You Romney haters should start a group on meetup.com so that you can hang out and throw darts at a Mitt Dartboard, piss on urinal soaps with BYU intials and then enjoy trying to explain to the waitress that you don't speak Spanish.
He'll be better so long as he kicks the bucket shortly after he'd be elected, that is all.
"McCain will do no less damage to the GOP than Romney the only difference is that Romney, even if fake, has had a change of heart"
You just contradicted yourself here. If he is a fake, he couldn't have had a change of heart. Romney is an unreconstructed liar. In fact, he's not even a particularly good liar, and as soon as he gets caught, he gets really ugly. I've not seen a lot of Democrats that lie as pathologically as he does. There is absolutely not a single word that comes out of his mouth that can be trusted. He hasn't converted on anything. He will lie to your face on whatever issue to get you to vote for him. It's that simple. With Romney, it's all about achieving power and avenging his father's loss of the White House. A lot like Al Gore.
Cry me a rio.
What debate?
No one asked me.
Assumptions, the shoals of .....simple children.
Romney was governor?
I thought he just used the state as a rest stop while he was out gallivanting around the country.
Remember the last time a former governor of MA ran for president?
Naah, I’d consider calling Precious Willard an empty suit a compliment. Empty suits are often amiable dunces. This guy is like the song “King Midas In Reverse.” Everything Republican and Conservative he touches turns to $hit. How come we can’t secretly bankroll people willing to infiltrate the rodent party and wreak maximum damage within their party ?
Ain't no tears here, corporal. Just saying it like it is.
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