Boy, Massachusetts, did you get bamboozled

[cali]

tossed aside like a used condom. Used and abused.

Mitt Romney made Massachusetts his stepping stone
By Joan Vennochi
| Globe Columnist

August 23, 2012

What a long, strange journey it has been for Massachusetts and Mitt Romney.

Romney made his fortune here. Then he launched the political career that took him where he is today — about to be anointed in Tampa as the Republican presidential nominee. To get to the point of acceptance in a party pitched sharply to the right, he renounced much of what he said he stood for when he first ran for office.

He shed his Bay State political garments with the guilt-free ease of a practiced stripper. It wasn’t gut-wrenching. It was strictly business.

Because of that, there’s a bitterness to his legacy in a state that has an outsized sense of its own importance and a no-compromise commitment to litmus-test liberal politics.

Massachusetts was a means to an end for Romney. For other Bay State pols, Massachusetts is an end in itself — even for those with eyes on the same prize as Romney. John Kerry lost his presidential bid, and eight years later, he’s still in the Senate, hosting hearings for Gloucester fishermen.

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http://bostonglobe.com/opinion/2012/08/23/mitt-romney-made-massachusetts-his-stepping-stone/kjEI9yIE10y6lQInQxBfJO/story.html

[orpupilofnature57]

1. There's a definite Anti-Kennedy sect in Mass

Modern Puritans .

[cali]

2. I'm not clear on what that has to do with the op

The point is that MA was nothing but a useful article to Mitt on his climb to the White House.

[orpupilofnature57]

24. And the people Who voted him in aren't

what most people would think of as the first state to abolish slavery, or any other " Liberal " notions .

[tclambert]

3. Why does he want to be President anyway? He doesn't hold any firm policy positions.

He obviously doesn't want to fight for any deeply held political ideals. He changes them whenever it suits whatever group he wants to pander to. Is it purely an ego trip? Narcissism gone wild?

[cali]

4. power and what you said.

[Voice for Peace]

17. "the guilt-free ease of a practiced stripper"

I continue to hope he will be questioned in depth about
why he passionately sincerely deeply truly swore up and down
to the voters that he supported a woman's right to choose.

How he heartfully and severely vowed he would never ever
no not never ever change that position, no matter what his private
beliefs might be.

How he asked the Mormon Church for their blessing to
take his pro-choice position, in order to win the election,
and was given permission by them to lie for the lord.

And whether he would lie for the lord as president.

[geckosfeet]

5. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

[former9thward]

8. It is not money.

He would make far more money not being president than being president. When you are president you are very limited in what you can do with your assets.

[pnwmom]

15. He can sign a new law reducing the capital gains tax, reducing his taxes to zero.

Permanently.

That would be a way to make money.

[former9thward]

21. No one, not even the Republicans, has proposed that.

But that is not the point. It is far, far, easier to make money by growing your assets than to make money by reducing your taxes. Buffet, Gates, and Romney did not get their wealth by cutting their taxes. They grew their assets. As president the limitations make it hard to do that while in the White House.

[geckosfeet]

25. Ummm. Ok.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Right about no firm policy positions (pic)

[Berlum]

10. Mormon Prophecy. Willard's the White Horse. So saith some.

Bishop Willard (R) is the Annointed One. So saith some.



http://www.salon.com/2012/01/29/mitt_and_the_white_horse_prophecy/

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. "a seventh-generation direct descendant of one of the faith’s founding 12 apostles"

shit..I had no idea of his Mormon background issues.

this is even more chilling:
”The Mormons are the Chosen People. And the time is now for a Mormon leader to usher in the second coming of Christ and install the political Kingdom of God in Washington, D.C.”

[Berlum]

22. Yep - it is unsettling in the extreme

Unless of course you are one of the Special 1% Elite Republikers who will be lording in over the
mass 99% of Smelly American Worker Proles

[Atman]

11. Just another acquisition.

He's supposed to. Everyone told him that. To not be president would show failure. Unacceptable.

[Myrina]

16. Because that's what wealthy frat-boys do ...

... they don't have any measurable skill or talent worth a damn in the work-world, so they make careers as 'climbers' ... it's all they know.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Seems Rmoney committed voter fraud in Mass., won't release tax forms that reveal it.

[Atman]

12. If only he'd had a government-issued voter ID.

It would have proven...uh...

Hmmm...what would it have proven. I find it hard to believe Mitt Romney did not have ID when he voted.

[tclambert]

13. Did he also vote in California?

Somebody check that. If he did . . . oh, man, I gotta buy more popcorn.

[rox63]

9. Yes we did

I certainly didn't vote for him. But enough people bought his story to elect him governor. He sold himself to voters based on one lie after another, same as he is doing in his presidential campaign. He bullied the incumbent republican governor out of running. In preparation for his eventual run for the white house, he travelled around the country trashing Massachusetts while he was still governor. He publicly speculated that he'd have been better off running for governor of Michigan. And he left the state GOP in such a shambles that even many MA republicans hate his guts.

[Capt. Obvious]

14. You sure have a lot of opinions and advice for Massachusetts

[Tracer]

19. Bamboozled?

Believe it or not, there ARE Republicans in Massachusetts, and it's been beaten to death about his feeble opponent.

However, again believe it or not --- rMoney did NO damage to MA (due to the overwhelming Dem legislature) and with RomneyCare actually did some good.

But doing no damage is not the same as saying that he wasn't the same pathetic tool then, as he is today.

And believe me, his running around trashing the state during his tenure did him no favors with me or plenty of other people.

[WilliamPitt]

20. Hey, his health care plan did really good things for us here.

Pretty much everyone has coverage, and the plan enjoys overwhelming approval from the people.

Thanks for the poke from the hack writer, though. Vennochi's column is the part of the paper people save aside to wrap their fish with.

[hughee99]

23. The people of Massachusetts know what the repukes will likely never find out...

Mitt will take whatever position is necessary to get elected, and spend NO effort on any policy that is not largely popular among the voters already. Mittens agenda is to get elected, and that's about it. If by some miracle he ever got elected, most repukes would be pissed about the policies he actually implemented.