examining what a loser Romney is and how he doesn't do any work at all because he's too busy kissing Bush's ass all the time.
Also explains his outburst against Kerry this week.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/07/16/what_is_romney_focused_on/Romney, of course, offers the usual coy quasi-denials of any ambitions beyond the state's borders. His own job is "so overwhelmingly consuming" he hasn't thought about what comes next, insisted the man who lately seems to arrive in Washington about as often as the US Airways Shuttle.
Yet the signs are there. Confidants believe that Romney would someday like to run nationally, and there can no longer be any doubt that he is intent on dramatically raising his national profile.
But on Wednesday, Romney chose to launch a sharp, attention-grabbing broadside, contending that Kerry is an inveterate shilly-shallier too conflicted from fear of offending his party's powerful constituency groups to be president.
Why would Romney do that? Well, it obviously ingratiates him with the Bush-Cheney team while earning him chits among national Republicans.
A second reason is less apparent: A Kerry loss would bolster Romney's own prospects of running nationally. "If Kerry wins, it makes it much more difficult, if not impossible, for Romney to run in 2008," says one Republican strategist watching the Massachusetts governor closely. "It would be awfully hard to run for president taking on a sitting president from your own state."
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