Posted on 07/06/2009 1:12:20 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
A number of Palin defenders have argued that Mitt Romney similarly cut and run from Massachusetts. While there is an important distinction between resigning office and declining to run for reelection -- Romney served out the entire term to which he was elected -- I basically agree with this criticism. Romney's abandonment of Massachusetts during a critical juncture in fights over health care, the budget, and the definition of marriage was the single greatest factor that shifted me from a Romney-sympathetic commentator to a critic. (The spin of Romney's flip-flops by some of his overzealous supporters played a role too, as did his health care plan.)
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watching Romney exit the field while so many of the issues he claimed to care about were in play, leaving the commonwealth to suffer one-party Democratic rule for the first time since the Dukakis years without any serious check or challenge, was too much to take. The man who rode back into the Bay State to save the GOP from a certain disaster at the hands of Jane Swift ended up merely delaying the inevitable for four years.
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This post was uncalled for. I accept any consequence of my childish behavior.
support candidates across the state??? Maybe you could name one for me? Muffy Healy ran a terrible campaign ON HER OWN. What else did you expect Romney to do? I understand you don’t like the guy, but jeez.
He was there just to get his ticket punched. Two years into his first, and only, elected office, he abandoned his duties to go full time campaigning, such was he that the glorious light would shine and illuminate him to the masses in their darkness.
He then spent more than all the other combined and got Butkus.
No common touch. Doesn’t ‘get’ Americans, let alone conservatives. Boring, vague, passive speaker.
I'm even adamanter!
vaudine
Meanwhile Sarah Palin, who clearly will campaign for herself and others over the next 18 months of her term, will save the Alaskan taxpayers $225,000 for a missing governor, and untold travel expenses, instead giving them a full-time engaged governor (Parnell). How does this make her a "quitter" instead of a "good citizen" and "responsible leader"?
Tell these facts to all the a$$hole "Republican" and "Conservative" pundits you hear that call that her a quitter.
I’m talking about legislative candidates. The dismal Republican #’s there only fell further during Mitt’s time because he didn’t use a shred of political capital to help him.
Mitt needed Muffy more than Weld needed Cellucci when running for governor, but Weld gave Cellucci all kinds of opportunities to get positive, substantive coverage throughout his administration, whereas Mitt’s administration was all about Mitt.
Mitt's sycophants have never left...
But you're right, nothing more deranged than trying to sell Mitt as a Conservative on a Conservative site...
Wow...
That's just nuts...
The real question remains.
Had he won the primary (had Huckabee not cut a deal with McCain and Guiliani capitulated) he would have run a much tougher campaign than Mac. Assuming that he had also chosen Palin. A Romney/Palin ticket could have won.
When the market was manipulated last fall, Romney is the only one that knows financials and could have taken the lead with the right reaction.
If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.
I don’t remember Mitt getting (or needing) any help getting elected - other than Swift getting out of the way. The MA Republican Party is in shambles, I’d hardly blame Romney for that. We could discuss this all day, I don’t think we are going to see eye-to-eye.
Cellucci was the only person Weld ostensibly “helped,” but he had just as little use for the GOP, and ultimately showed his own leftist rodent inclinations with endorsing the False Messiah.
No comparison. They are two very different people. Mitt is interested in himself and Palin is interested in the rights of the people.
He’s lovely.
The MA GOP isn’t in shambles (Weld left it in shambles), it’s dead. Slick Willard buried the corpse.
And this is Atom Ant...
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That reminds me of a soap commercial.
It has you confounded...
Understandable...
Mittens may have us all bewitched, bothered, and bewildered with his supernaturally awesome hair, but we're still not voting for him.
It’s gonna be fun watching you Romney bashers become unglued. Maybe the three years won’t seem so long.
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