Posted on 07/31/2008 8:49:09 AM PDT by greyfoxx39
Oh yeah. Let's let Myth Romney and his myopic cultists
ruin America, just like he (and they) did to Massachusetts. [/s]
Romney was rated a "C" overall by Cato. Here are the facts.
As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.
* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.
* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.
* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.
"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.
In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal.
[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]
This CommonwealthCare, aka. RomneyCare, is statewide health care insurance -— mandated, subsidized and controlled by the government.
RomneyCare is socialism and has been a loser since day one.
And handsome...
And brilliant...
And had such good hair...
Look we all know you are in love, literally, we get it. Still does not change the fact that Romenycare, among other things, is not a “Conservative” position to be taken by one advertised as the great “Conservative”. It is no mare going to make Mitt a conservative than believing it is not raining keeps you dry in a thunderstorm...
But blaming Romney for an ultraleft successor royally screwing up a moderately screwed up program is over the top. The People's Commonwealth was bound and determined to get socialized medicine in one form or another. Romney tried to give them a form which would keep a small measure of sanity with competition, users paying something and the like.
Yes, it was foolish to expect an electorate this dumb wouldn't change it after he left office. But the man's background is as a businessman, not a politician. Businesses have been known to actually improve imperfect programs in order to survive rather than screw them up more in order to get a government bailout.
In the end, the Massachusetts problems may actually do the country a favor by causing the sheeple who are all to ready to drive down the path of socialized medicine to think again.
the point is to fight it, not try to defend it. Everyone else was on board with everything Bush did because Bush could do no wrong. It’s great that everyone is picking on McCain where he is wrong but where were conservatives when Bush expanded govt for the past how many years? They went along with it.
Romney was wrong just as McCain was wrong for opposing ANWR, border, etc. You don’t have to try to defend the indefensible.
For anyone that knows about Massachusetts, the Governor actually has very little power - especially with a veto-proof legislature enshrined in Boston. The lesson learned, unfortunately is that if you are a Mass Republican - don't bother to run for office. You will only be mocked by the rest of the GOP and be accused of being a collaborator for executing the duties of your office.
How in the world did this RINO become the savior for conservative beltway pundits?
Myth ought run for the position of "Professional Victim" Dictator-for-Life-Romney inflicted the final coverup of the BIGdig,
AND socialized medicine, AND gay marriage,
AND millions of criminal illegals (raping and running over children every day),
AND murderer-freeing liberal judges on the citizens WITHOUT A VOTE.
But you claim HE is the victim. Thinking people say otherswise.
Pray for the VICTIMS of Mitt Romney.
Agreed. It really is a no-win office for Republicans.
Making lemonade when all you have is a lemon?...does it go well with green jello...;)
blaming Romney for an ultraleft successor royally screwing up a moderately screwed up program is over the top.
Hmmmm....IF this "screwed up program" was NOT already in existence, how could it have been "royally screwed up by an ultraleft successor"?
Sorry, that logic escapes me, but it sounds quite a bit like "anything to prop him up" by a Mitt supporter.
**The liberals love it!**
And the conservatives don’t. Smaller government, please.
Victims aplenty. The Maucks have not been heard from, have they?
THE TRUTH ABOUT ROMNEY AND HIS JUDGES
"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005
and this
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
and then this.....
Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
I wonder, if Massatwosh!ts is as liberal as folks want us to believe is the reason Mitt couldn’t fix the state, what was it about Mitt that got him elected Governor of such a liberal bastion? The voters obviously don’t want a conservative, the elected representation from that state shows that. What did such liberal voters see in Mitt Romney that they liked so much, they elected him as their governor?
Are you telling me the legislature has no role in approving selected judges in Massachusetts?
Even giving him the benefit of the doubt and saying it was a decent idea (it wasn't) he had to know he was playing straight into the democrats hands on this issue.
He is very, very pretty...
Sadly, that is where we are now days...
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