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Better stay in your comfort zone, Charlie
lowell sun ^ | 3/10 | Peter Lucas

Posted on 03/08/2016 5:47:24 AM PST by luke1825

Charlie Baker had better stick to his day job of governing.

Because politics is not his thing.

The late New York Gov. Mario Cuomo said it best: "You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose."

Baker, the Republican governor, gets the prose part pretty well. It is the poetry piece that has him puzzled.

He said early on that he was not going to get involved in national politics or campaign for anybody but would stick to the business of running the state.

But he ended up endorsing and campaigning for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, a guy he likes, who then burned him by endorsing Donald Trump, a guy he hates. Go figure

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; charliebaker; massachusetts

1 posted on 03/08/2016 5:47:24 AM PST by luke1825
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Charlie Baker Governor of Mass. since 2015

Trump hater, but 20,000 Democrats switched to Republican Party to vote for Trump. Good Governor perhaps but on the wrong side in Republican Presidential candidate race.

2 posted on 03/08/2016 6:17:10 AM PST by Robert DeLong (u)
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