“On the other hand, he’s one of the most capable men ever to run for the White House in this nation’s history. Anyone who has dealt with CEOs in industry will understand how people like this operate. One of their most important attributes is one that serves them very poorly in a popularity contest, and that is their ability to be completely detached and devoid of all personal connection when dealing with a situation that requires strong leadership.
This is why I pay no attention to campaign speeches, campaign ads, etc. This is all just “noise” in the background of a very important election. If you want to get a sense of where things really stand, just sit down and watch the entire length of last week’s debate — with the sound off. Those two people didn’t even belong in the same zip code, let alone on a stage in a presidential debate.”
This is all fantasy! Romney ran as the CEO Governor in Mass. too, and that got them RomneyCare, 700 million in new taxes and fees, and third from the bottom in business growth. Any honest look at his record reveals a shifty operator who says whatever he wants and governs as a leftist, and you want us to believe in this fantasy of CEO-competence when he has never once ever displayed any of it? Nuts!
Actually, the perception among a lot of people is that he was far more "progressive" in his first two years and a real disappointment after that.
... that got them RomneyCare, 700 million in new taxes and fees, and third from the bottom in business growth.
We can all acknowledge that national unemployment figures do not accurately reflect the dire unemployment situation in this country, but there's no getting around the fact that Massachusetts now has an unemployment rate that is considerably lower than the nation as a whole, and a full 1-3 points lower than similar neighbors like Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey. Even many Democrats in MA acknowledge that a lot of this can be traced back to Romney's term as governnor.