Run Mitt, Run!!!

[KarenInMA]

According to the Boston Globe, Mittens is still considering running for Gov.

PLEASE!! Run again Mittens!! The resulting thud will be heard across the country! C'mon Mitty...it will be sooooo much fun to campaign against you!!

[BamaLefty]

1. I bet he won't

although he would like to be VP.

[TaleWgnDg]

2. If Mitt Romney does decide to run again for Governor of Massachusetts

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If Mitt Romney does decide to run again for Governor of Massachusetts, then he will soon find out that he should have stayed in his home state of Utah and ran for Governor there! He would have been politically redder than red, and his perfect coif and lovely bright smile would have won 'em all over as it did for the corrupt Utah Olympics.

But no, Mitt ran here in the bluest of blue states "fudging" his legal domicile. How stupid is that? No stupider than is Mitt. Hey, Mitt, you've chosen the wrong -- repeat, WRONG -- state as a stepping stone to the whitehouse! Hello, Mitt?? LMAO

Go, Mittens, go. You are what keeps blue states, blue!



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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 newsstands on June 3, 2005, entitled "Matinée 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)

"He has decided that life begins not at conception, not at birth, but when you decide to run for president." - Jon Stewart, on Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's changing views on abortion

" 'It is very conceivable that scientific advances will allow an embryo to be grown for a substantial period of time outside the uterus,' Romney said in an interview with the Globe. 'To say that it is not life at one month or two months or four months or full term, just because it had never been in a uterus, would be absurd.' "
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/05/12/romney_urges_changes_to_stem_cell_bill/ (Boston Globe, Romney urges changes to stem cell bill, Adds amendment to prohibit cloning, by Scott Greenberger, Globe Staff, May 12, 2005. Romney later leaves his vacation home in New Hampshire to veto the entire newly passed Massachusetts stem cell research bill. Romney's veto was subsequently over-ridden by the state legislature.)
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[geckosfeet]

6. I am still seething that he won here !!!!! How did that happen !!!!

What happened to Reich ?? Why did he not get the democratic nomination?

[TaleWgnDg]

7. How did GOPer Mitt Romney win the governorship in Massachusetts?

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How did GOPer Mitt Romney win the corner office at the State House in Massachusetts? Oh, that's an easy question.

Massachusetts, as you are aware, is a stronghold of the Democratic Party. We like it that way. The legislature has been Democrat since as long as I can remember. And that's going back quite a long way. On the other hand, we, Bay Staters, can be very pragmatic. And we apply that pragmatism at the ballot box, liberally. Pun intended.

In doing so, we feel more than comfortable in electing the opposing party as Governor. We feel it balances politics at the state level. We've done this quite often in the past. Governor John A. Volpe comes to mind, as does Governor Francis W. Sargent and Governor Leverett Saltonstall, and the list goes on and on to the present days through William F. Weld, A. Paul Cellucci, and Jane M. Swift. Most of them, if not all of them, were moderate politicians. Never the social conservatism that we think as today's neo-conservative Republicans in "red states." That very idea of Republicans as social conservative is something new in Massachusetts.

Mitt Romney seemed to fill the "moderate" bill for those not well-informed. Romney didn't fool those of us who follow politics and those of us who are political junkies! Nope, no way. Romney espoused moderation particularly around "women's issues" which if one is learned in law understands that it touches many more legal areas than merely abortion. And then there was the related issue about his religious views which caused some of us to see potential red flags.

Well, in short, Romney's true colors have reared their head for all Bay Staters to see. It was Romney's insatiable urge to be president that required him to once again change his stripes and spots that stripped him of his so-called "moderation" for John Q. and Jane Q. Massachusetts to see. And, we don't like to be used as a stepping stone as Romney is doing. Yes, we get damn angry!

S'all. Simple, really. That is, unless your question was rhetorical!

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[geckosfeet]

8. Sort of rhetorical. I have lived in MA since 96. I followed this election

and was appalled that when was even allowed on the primary ballot given his residence in Utah. Talk about a red state. That should have been enough of a red flag.

But what happened to Robert Reichs nomination? I was stunned that he lost to,,, and I cannot for the life of me remember her name,,,, O'Brien ?? She was such a weak candidate. I can't help thinking that the GOP skewed that primary somehow because they knew she was weak and did not stand a chance against Romney.

Reich would have been an excellent governor for this state. We need to help with national democratic unity and his leadership, along with Ted Kennedy and some of the NY dems would have made the NE a stronghold. As it is now we are weakened.

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As far as electing a governor from the opposing party, I know that MA has done that in the past. I do not agree with it. It is shortsighted and defeatist but there is a sort of bent logic to that reasoning. I suppose if the right dem came along he/she would be elected governor but giving these bastards a toe hold is a mistake. They will infiltrate like scum.

If Romney runs for pres what does he care about a couple electoral votes in MA that the Republican candidate would never have won anyway. Don't kid yourself. We are irrelevant and yes just a stepping stone on his path to glory. We have been played and used by the GOP.

Now you have the WH advising Weld on running in NY State right next door. The camels nose is in the tent. They are trying to turn the NE.

[TaleWgnDg]

10. Hmmmm . . .

Robert B. Reich (ex-U.S. Labor Secretary, liberal politician, law school professor, ex-Assistant U.S. Solicitor General, writer, feminist, Rhodes Scholar, attorney, college professor, playwright, economist) got lost in the gubernatorial primary as did Tom Birmingham (labor attorney, liberal politician, ex-president of the state senate). Two very good gubernatorial candidates. Reich, a long time resident of Cambridge with his wife (Professor Clare Dalton) and 2 sons, is moving to California, I believe, to teach at the University of California at Berkeley . . . hate to see his wife and him leave Massachusetts. But I believe their (gorgeous) Victorian family home in Cambridge is on the market for sale.

As for the Republicans, I believe a two-party system is far better than a one-party system. Despite your protestations, it works for the common good to have two competing political parties in Massachusetts. Vitriolic social conservatism hasn't occurred in Massachusetts as it exists in other parts of the country. Our *brand* of local Republican Party in the northeast is moderate, usually. Unfortunately, where the social conservatism is rearing it's head is in the rightwing on the Democratic Party in Massachusetts! How vile!

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[geckosfeet]

11. Two party,,, maybe three or four party would be better. Right now

I am having a hard time telling some pubs from dems. (See your reference to the Reich home.)

But if the rest of the country goes red, and MA is still blue, where do you think they will train the cross hairs? Romney played moderate just long enough to get elected. Is that something that should be admired? Tolerated? Shrug your shoulders at it and say oh well? He followed a national GOP script. Its NOT local.

You don't think there are vitriolic social conservatives in MA?

I was at a vigil for Cindy Sheehan at the The Peace Abbey. A big hummer type vehicle slowed down as it drove by, some goober hung his face out the driver side window and screamed an obscenity into what was an otherwise beautiful and peaceful evening.

They are here, always have been and always will be. My fear is that they will move into the state house in stronger numbers en-boldened by weak local democrats and a strong national GOP. I do not see anything benefitting the common good should that come to pass.

[merbex]

3. He is such a smarmy weasal

you're right - let's defeat him here

[whalerider55]

4. yeah, run-- but

jeez, i'm so sick of dems running insiders against incumbent republicans- Shannon O'Brien, dare I say Tom Reilly- Reich would have beaten his opponent. Can't we take a risk once, on a Patrick, Reich, Tolman- jeez, anybody but these party apparatchniks...

sheesh.

run, mitt, run.

although Healy has been raising her visibility quite a bit lately, in the education community.

whalerider

[MADem]

5. Gee. that suggests to me that Mittens is not feeling the LOVE

...from the GOP cretins at the national level. The cheesy cahpitbagging weasel is clearly hedging his bets.

[TaleWgnDg]

9. Life is to laugh. Here's more from Romney . . . holy crapola!

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Life is to laugh. Here's more from Romney . . . holy crapola! Is Romney auditioning for a stand-up comedy routine? LMAO !!

Boston Globe, headlines, front page of today's, Saturday, August 27, 2005, newspaper:

http://www.boston.com/globe/acrobat/today.pdf (.pdf format, Adobe Reader required)

Romney predicts 'landslide' reelection
Forecast with a catch: That's if he runs again

By Michael Levenson, Globe Correspondent | August 27, 2005

Despite polls showing him trailing potential Democratic rivals, Governor Mitt Romney is confidently predicting that he would trounce the competition if he decides to run for reelection next year.

"Well, I win by a landslide in Massachusetts if I run for reelection. And that's very possibly what I'm going to do," Romney said in an interview with Chris Matthews that was televised nationally yesterday on the MSNBC political talk show ''Hardball."

Romney's remarks were the latest in a string of mixed signals in recent months. He traveled the country elevating his national profile and raising cash for Republicans earlier this year and explicitly acknowledged in June that he was testing the waters for a 2008 presidential campaign. But this month, he has emphasized to several reporters that he is focused on his job and that he has not made a decision whether to run for reelection.

Yesterday, his main Democratic rival, Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly, issued a one-sentence response: ''Whenever the governor makes up his mind, I'm ready."

During a bantering, back-and-forth interview, Matthews was clearly skeptical about Romney's insistence that he had not decided to seek the White House in 2008.

"I love being governor, love what I'm doing here," Romney told Matthews.

Matthews pushed back.

"Why do I get the impression you're running for governor, I mean, running for president?" he asked.

Said Romney: "I don't know."

. . . more . . . http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/08/27/romney_predicts_landslide_reelection?mode=PF