Mitt is/was not perfect. However, the man performed well considering the Dems outnumber the Reps in the State legislature by a 9-to-1 margin.
Plus, any “old time” (a.k.a. partially sane) Dems that did work with him were wiped out in the 2004 election. Yes, he screwed up on a few things, such as the mandatory health insurance, but again - what did he have to work with? Not much.
And for the usual flammers out there, please - posting the 1994 campaign literature and that the number of Reps shrunk while he was governor - he doesn’t hate gays and the 2004 Rep wipeout in MA was a foreshadowing of the BDS that would hit everywhere else in 2006 and 2008.
“Mitt is/was not perfect. However, the man performed well considering the Dems outnumber the Reps in the State legislature by a 9-to-1 margin.”
Why is it that he dropped his republican registration in protest against Reagan, supported Swet, voted for Paul Tsongas in 1992, why did he give money exclusively to democrat candidates (in multiple states)for years until he re registered republican in 1993 (the year he stopped giving to dems) while still being against Gingrich and the Contract with America in 1994?
The reasons that Mitt Romney was not a fighter in Mass is that he liked things the way they were, he could play soft and say he tried and the result fit his politics anyway.