Why Romney’s Republicans are doomed, and why the governor doesn’t care

[Killarney]

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/other_stories/multipage/documents/04210248.asp
CONFUSED ABOUT the Massachusetts Republican Party’s prospects in the upcoming legislative elections? Don’t worry. So is the Massachusetts Republican Party.

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Taken together, this breathtaking drop in expectations and Romney’s apparent nonchalance raise some interesting questions. Did Romney truly think the "Reform Team" was a big deal back in May, or was he just after a good photo op? After raising approximately $3 million for the current election cycle, and getting all the buzz it could have asked for, will the Massachusetts Republican Party really be satisfied with just breaking even? And if — as some political pundits suggest — Romney’s political prestige is truly on the line, why does he seem so utterly unconcerned?

IF THE MASS GOP flops on Election Day, it won’t be the first time Romney has talked big and failed to deliver. Remember the $2 billion in waste and inefficiency Romney told voters he’d identified in state government during the gubernatorial campaign? Turns out that was either an embarrassing overestimate or a cynical ploy. Then there was the governor’s decision to scrap the state’s affirmative-action framework, which he promptly reversed when the political pressure became too intense. And whatever happened to Romney’s much-ballyhooed quest for an infallible death penalty, which seems simply to have faded away?

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[midnight armadillo]

1. His eye is on the prize

The presidential prize, that is. I also think he's really hoping for a Cabinet type post from Bush which is why Romney is campaigning so hard for him.

Really, Romney's governorship has been marked by its general lack of accomplishment. Without Finneran to bitch about, he's got nothing to say, or do, and I think he's got both eyes on D.C.

[Kat45]

2. I agree--that's what he's going for.

[TaleWgnDg]

3. As Mr. Mittens steps all over us in Massachusetts on his way up

the political ladder to what he hopes will be the presidency, I await Mittens promises about "I will bring in new corporations, I am familiar with corporate America and will bring them to Massachusetts just as I did in the private sector!"

Well? Has he?

No. He hasn't. Instead Mittens is too damn busy trying to "score" points nationally bashing gays w/ constitutional amendments of discrimination while dressed in tux and tails for U.S. congress' testimony. What a farce is Mitt Romney. A complete farce.

Ted Kennedy tagged Mitt Romney correctly back when Romney challenged Kennedy's seat in the Senate. Indeed. Kennedy demonstrated then how shallow Mitt was, and I believe such shallowness hasn't improved to this day. Tis obvious that Mittens and Company should have stayed in Utah where his brand of do-nothing is accepted as norm.



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[skippysmom]

4. Not to mention

He's been pissing all over the state workers' unions in order to curry favor with the national party. I hate being a pawn in his game to win a nomination they will NEVER GIVE HIM.