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The one term that must not be mentioned
The one term that must not be mentioned
By Steve Benen
David Axelrod, a top political strategist for President Obama, raised an interesting point about Mitt Romney's big speech in New Hampshire last night.
It's a fair point about an overlooked aspect of the speech. In fact, going through the transcript this afternoon, I noticed that Romney mentioned his father being a governor, but not his own term in office.
When I was doing research for this recent piece on presidential candidates and their pre-campaign experience in public service, I found plenty of governors and former governors who tried (and succeeded) to parlay their background as the chief executive of a state into becoming the chief executive of the nation.
But I could find no example of a major-party nominee whose only experience in government was serving as a governor, but who then made no effort to talk about this experience as a candidate for national office. Nor could I find any examples of a governor quitting after one term, knowing he'd lose if he sought re-election, and then running for president.
And why is it, exactly, that Romney is avoiding the subject of his only background in public service? Perhaps because, during his 2003-to-2007 tenure, Romney failed to impress much of anyone.
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/25/11394752-the-one-term-that-must-not-be-mentioned
By Steve Benen
David Axelrod, a top political strategist for President Obama, raised an interesting point about Mitt Romney's big speech in New Hampshire last night.
It's a fair point about an overlooked aspect of the speech. In fact, going through the transcript this afternoon, I noticed that Romney mentioned his father being a governor, but not his own term in office.
When I was doing research for this recent piece on presidential candidates and their pre-campaign experience in public service, I found plenty of governors and former governors who tried (and succeeded) to parlay their background as the chief executive of a state into becoming the chief executive of the nation.
But I could find no example of a major-party nominee whose only experience in government was serving as a governor, but who then made no effort to talk about this experience as a candidate for national office. Nor could I find any examples of a governor quitting after one term, knowing he'd lose if he sought re-election, and then running for president.
And why is it, exactly, that Romney is avoiding the subject of his only background in public service? Perhaps because, during his 2003-to-2007 tenure, Romney failed to impress much of anyone.
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http://maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/04/25/11394752-the-one-term-that-must-not-be-mentioned
That's a damn good catch!
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the man can absolutely skewer in 140 words or less.
Sid
really. A terrible President and a empty suit Governor...those were lousy years to suffer through.
Thomas Whalen, a Boston University political science professor, put it this way: "To know Mitt Romney is to dislike him. That is the moral of the story."
Should we push for better vetting of the missing 4 years from 2003-2007?
