Romney has extensive executive experience in the public and private sectors plus impressive academic credentials. He graduated in 1975 cum laude from Havard law school, in the top third of that class, and was named a Baker Scholar for graduating in the top five percent of his business school class receiving his MBA.
Bachmann has executive experience helping her husband run their business. Ron Paul worked as an obstetrician and gynecologist during the 1960s and 1970s, delivering more than 4,000 babies, before entering politics in 1976. He started his own private practice in 1968. Huntsman has been a governor, Ambassador, and had private business experience at the executive level.
I don't know what your definition of "substantial executive experience" is, but every remaining Rep in the field has had much more in the way of executive experience than Obama or Hillary or Kerry or Biden.
Untrue. You are at FR and are now on open double probation.
Here are the facts from CATO.
"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.]