[RobFromGa]

If the Boston Globe is making favorable comments, it can't be good. I'm not sure surrounding himself with moderates and liberals is the way for Romney to help Massachusetts or his party.

But I do recognize that Romney is operating deep behind the front lines and has many logistical problems to deal with. Plus, he has a big fiscal disaster to clean up without cutting services, raising taxes, or limiting benefits.

[Egregious Philbin]

If the Boston Globe is making favorable comments, it can't be good. I'm not sure surrounding himself with moderates and liberals is the way for Romney to help Massachusetts or his party.

Romney, however, is probably pretty happy about it. He can't get anything done in Massachusetts without "surrounding himself with moderates and liberals." He'd lose all support if, gaining office, he suddenly began to push the conservative, Republican line. He didn't campaign that way, and it doesn't represent Massachusetts voters either. He campaigned as a pragmatist, open to the suggestions of either party.

[SamAdams76]

My initial impressions of Mitt Romney are very favorable. He seems like one of the the most decent guys to ever gain elected office and don't let his "apolitical" actions fool you, he is a man with traditional conservative values. He reminds me a lot of GWB. He's not your typical back-slapping politician who is in the back pocket of union thugs and other special interest groups. He's independently wealthy and thus can't be bought by anybody. I sincerely believe that Mitt Romney intends to do some serious governing and that in the end, our budget problems will be solved WITHOUT the raising of taxes. If he is able to pull this off, he will make it much harder for a liberal tax-and-spender to ever get in the corner office again.