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I also get tired of all the bellyaching about Romney and Massachusetts.
What some people seem incapable of understanding is that Massachusetts demanded those policies from Romney. He did the best he could with what he had.
The only activism that Romney took to Massachusetts was the determination to put their economic house in order. He vetoed about 800 bills. He was not able to hold back their hunger for socialism. That hunger didn’t come from Romney.
His success in the private sector, when he was able to do what he wanted, tells me what the real Romney is like.
I wish some people would get over their hatred for this guy so we could concentrate on mending our economic fences.

RomneyBOT delusion: "I also get tired of all the bellyaching about Romney and Massachusetts.
What some people seem incapable of understanding is that Massachusetts demanded those policies from Romney.
He did the best he could with what he had. The only activism that Romney took to Massachusetts was the determination to put their economic house in order. "

THE REAL DEAL: Romney got a "C" from CATO -- even before he tanked Massachusetts
with RomneyCARE=HillaryCARE and his coverup of the BIGdig.

Romney also betrayed President Bush. 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.]

Compare that to an EFFECTIVE BELOVED GOV., like Gov Palin.

Gov. Palin got the oil companies to pay the citizens of Alaska.

Gov. Palin increased the tax on oil companies and
made "tax breaks" to help small biz.

"Palin supported and signed into law a $1.5 billion tax increase on oil companies in the form of higher severance taxes. .......
Palin has offered a few narrow or minor tax breaks, including:
* A tax credit for film production in the state, offering about $20 million per year in breaks.
* A cut in an annual business license fee from $100 to $25 (the legislature went half way to $50).
* A one-year suspension of the state fuel tax to save taxpayers about $40 million.
* A repeal of tire taxes to save taxpayers $2 million.
* A tax credit for commercial salmon harvesting to save taxpayers about $2 million."

His success in the private sector, when he was able to do what he wanted, tells me what the real Romney is like...

Success in the private sector, especially MBA exec management success, is very different from understanding economics and embracing limited government in a nation of free people and self-determined commerce. Those successful MBA execs didn't get that way because they were working in a free-people framework. They operate in a manipulative, hired work concept, and for the most part, they're the employers. They see their jobs as to be managing execs, MBAs, for the government, with taxpayers as the employees. They manipulate the government to tell us how to earn and pay our taxes right. Romney says "cut regulations," and you grasp it as proof he understands the limited government concept. I read it as just one more bit of Romney sweet-sounding sell-the-board spiel that saps fall for.

I wish some people would get over their hatred for this guy ...

I wish Romney people would get over their lust for the word "hatred" to describe the motivations of those with whom they disagree.