Why do MA Repugs think the only 2 elected offices in this state

[merbex]

are Gov. and Lt. Gov?

And they wonder why the State House is 80some odd percent Democratic?

If Democrats can't win back the corner office after this stunt the Repugs keep pulling - Weld and Celluci, Celluci and Swift, now Romney and Healey we don't deserve to ever hold the office

This state deserves so much better than the musical chairs game the Repugs have turned the corner office into

[ET Awful]

1. Well, once the campaign heats up next year, and more people know

who Deval Patrick is, I think there will be a huge shift away from the elephantitis that has infested the corner office.

[belladonna]

8. Republican Musical Chairs

Only Weld ran twice, Romney will run for the Senate and pass it on to the next well financed Republican. It isn't going to be the LT Gov or Tisei from the middle Middlesex senate disrict or the clown from Springfield. Tisei will run for LT GOv.

[Ian David]

2. I've been telling my reps NOT to over-turn Romney's crazy vetoes

It just enables him and masks the awful effects of his policies.

I imagine that Romney vetoed SOME bills knowing that his vetoes would be over-ruled.

Imagine his surprise if they didn't over-turn one of his vetoes and they actually started to build a trash transfer station next to a reservoir.

Most voters won't know what Romney wants to do unless he actually gets the chance to DO them!

[rox63]

3. Mitt is going down, whatever he runs for

I don't think Mittens has a snowball's chance in hell of winning reelection, if he chose to run for it. And we all know his eyes are on the White House. I don't think he has a chance of winning that either.

[newscott]

4. The long term plan is to control the elections

They will eventually try to do this in every state. Don't you get it?

Look at Ohio as the badly failing model for this Republican strategy.

[TaleWgnDg]

5. It's not so much that there's some kind of successful and grand . . .

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It's not so much that there's some kind of successful and grand . . . well thought-out Republican plan for the corner office in Massachusetts. Hell, they cannot muster enough votes to fill very many State senate or house seats! We don't want Republicans to legislate our laws in Massachusetts!

Instead, most voters in Massachusetts vote Republican for Governor (and Lieutenant Governor) because both houses of the Massachusetts legislature are overwhelmingly Democrat -- and have had an iron fist House Speaker, i.e., Tom Finneran, and Senate President William F. (The Midget) Bulger! Therefore, Massachusetts voters have attempted to counter both Finneran and Bulger over the years by voting the opposing party into the Governor's office. An attempt at balancing, or countering. Simple, really!

Again, it's no grand nor successful scheme by the Republicans. They merely fall into it.

This may change, however, now that Sal DiMasi (D., North End) is the Speaker of the House and Robert Travaglini (D., Boston) is Senate President. Neither appear to govern with that infamous iron fist! Thus, the voters may not kneejerk it necessary to vote-in the opposing party for governor next time around. In addition, with Romney running for re-election, I believe, he doesn't have much of a chance to sit in the corner office for another term. This time around, it seems to be two strikes out for the Republicans, so far.


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"He's been a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly," Governor Mitt Romney (R, MA) adviser Michael Murphy told the National Review (a prominent conservative magazine) in a cover story hitting newstands on June 3, 2005, entitled "Matinee Mitt." -- http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/06/03/adviser_says_governor_faked_stance_on_abortion (Headlines, page A-1, "Adviser says Governor Faked Stance on Abortion," Boston Globe, Friday, June 3, 2005)

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[merbex]

6. Let's hope that DiMasi and Travaglini continue in this manner

it is refreshing

[belladonna]

9. General Court Leadership

Remember Keverian from Everett was a reformer, did anything change after he beat Mc Gee from Lynn.

[belladonna]

7. Why the state house corner office is Republican?

Find me a clean Bay state democrat?

Bellotti?

Keverian?

Finneran?

Bulger?

Crane?

The list goes on!

What happened to Silva, Reich, Pines and the list goes on? They can't win the primary but all could win state wide (Silva faced Weld who is sorta of a GOD, but he could have won any other time state wide. The Democratic party only let good government people run against Weld, poor Roosevelt)If you're a Democrat you know who these people are and what they represent. Why did you get stuck with Dukakis all these years? because of Eddy King and the BC mafia. Tell me different.

[whalerider55]

10. my two cents

dems in MA don't win the gube's seat because they tend to nominate party hacks who lack fresh ideas, have no charisma, and are beholden to whoever helped their grandfathers get elected 60 years ago.

Robert Reich would have been a helluva progressive governor, but the party hacks did everything they could to deny him the minute percentage he needed to get on the state ballot.

Shannon O'Brien? gimme a break.

while I am proud to live in massachusetts, I have also spent 20 years dealing with the state government on issues like AIDS, drug addiction and homelessness; law enforcement, education (currently elected to a school board)... and the news is that there is no plan, no vision, no real connection between the republican party and its candidates and the dems and its... just the acquisition and maintenence of power and patronage. State government is where failed local politicians go to die. they're allowed to graze, first. if we could sweep all of the ex-selectman, ex-city councilors, ex-mayors off the state payroll, we could save millions of bucks... and the pugs are far worse than the dems are, believe me. you would not believe how many clueless ex-elected officials are running multi-million dollar state contracts... into the ground.

i'd rather have the dems in power, believe me.

still, we could do a little housecleaning, as well.

i'm open to Patrick, but the last time I checked, he wasn't irish and his father hadn't been elected anything in MA.

whalerider