Honestly, will Healy and Romney be voted out?

[BamaLefty]

I mean come on! Repubs have both the Lt. Governorship as well as the Governorship in the most dark blue state in all of the nation.

Remember, I am not asking for BS here. I want to know if they will get the boot.

I have family in the Bay State and they like Healy but hate Romney....

[BamaLefty]

1. LTGOV

http://vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=MMA55884

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. If the Dems run a strong candidate, Romney is toast

Shannon O'Brien was a weak candidate. Romney's popularity is in the shitter, since he spends more time campaigning for other Repubs than in his own state.

[Unstuck In Time]

3. Healy who?

Seriously, I live in Mass., and I think I've seen Healy on the news twice, maybe three times. She's a complete non-entity.

As for Romney, I don't think he's accomplished all that much so far (though he's attempting to make a big splash with healthcare reform now). But he hasn't screwed anything up either, for the most part. And I don't see any Democratic challenger poised to give him a real run for his money.

That could change as time goes on, of course. But at the moment, it's hard to envision voters giving him the boot.

[whalerider55]

4. my opinion....

the republicans are at the very shallow end of the gene pool in terms of leadership. Weld swore he'd stay and immediately began looking for a job with clinton until Jesse Helms backstabbed him (and weld wasn't really a repub, he was a libertarian); his Lt. Gov., Cellucci would never have made the A-list for Governor (he had $600,000 in credit card debt; the story went that he advocated for cutting tolls west on the Mass Turnpike so he could get out to the racetracks in Saratoga NY w/o slowing down) He promised to stay, then left early to take the Ambassadorship to Canada, where he has been a complete bust; his Lt. Gov, who arranged for State Police helicopter flights to get her home to western mass and had staff babysitting her kids was actually dumped (!) a sitting governor dumped by her own party as they lusted sfter mitt...) btw, he Lt. Gov candidate in the primaries was none other than Patrick Gurriero, Exec Dir of the Log Cabin republicans- Pat the G Man is notorious for allowing his town (he was a former Mayor) to be used to dump (illegally) toxic sludge from the big dig, where it slopped onto a golf course and playground.

this is about the best the state has to offer.

we'll see who the dems offer up. Could be Joe Kennedy, or DA Tom Reilly; who knows. Kerry not grabbing the big enchilada really set back the hopes and dreams of a lot of hungry dems here in the Bay STate... can you say (let alone imgaine) Senator Barny Frank?

i think they're cooked this time. Mitt made a big deal of going out west to hump for shrub, and when his performance proved, shall we say, less than inspiring, he came back to hump for local candiates, where everything he touched turned to poop. he actually lost seats in the senate and house of rep.

whalerider55

[welshTerrier2]

5. we will crush them if we continue to organize ...

there is a real grassroots energy being built in massachusetts ... if the energy can be sustained, and not crushed by those who prefer to appease republicans, we can win the governor's race ...

[BamaLefty]

6. Healy Spoke at the RNC

That is when I first saw or heard of her. My family in Mass likes the gal... and they are hardline Dems. :shrug:

[Arkana]

7. Oh, definitely.

The only problem is, who can we run?