The Mass GOP was dead and buried long before Romney got there. Saying he killed it is like saying Pataki did the same here in NY. And the major reason why McCain was able to win the nomination was because the lack of a clear front runner allowed Time Magazine and CNN and MSNBC and Newsweek and CBS and NBC to push him over the top with casual voters. I will happily vote for McCain in November, but as long as there was any viable alternative besides Huckabee, there wasn't a single poster on FR with anything but hatred for McCain.
And I disagree that the Republicans can keep right on winning. Obama is a very flawed candidate, but he is by far the best they could come up with in the past generation. The are going to have a hard time topping him. The almost nominated John Edwards this time. I'm guessing that if he loses Hillary Clinton will be the nominee, and she's definitely beatable.
I’d say about a good 20% of Mass citizens are conservative to very conservative. More than half would support a Republican. It’s just the Mass Republicans act as an alternative faction of the Democrat party.
How come Guiliani and Bloomberg were willing to make political enemies, even amongst city unions and turn NY around ,and Mitt did nothing? How dumb is that? Well, not much if all you are doing is the minimal political ticket punching to run for President( One term, one time ).
I mean, good looking, tall, good hair, and one single term where you spent your second half setting up your nomination run? Talk about delusions.