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Mitt Romney’s Dismal Record

"As U.S. real output grew 13 percent between 2002 and 2006, Massachusetts trailed at 9 percent.

* Manufacturing employment fell 7 percent nationwide those years, but sank 14 percent under Romney, placing Massachusetts 48th among the states.

* Between fall 2003 and autumn 2006, U.S. job growth averaged 5.4 percent, nearly three times Massachusetts' anemic 1.9 percent pace.

* While 8 million Americans over age 16 found work between 2002 and 2006, the number of employed Massachusetts residents actually declined by 8,500 during those years.

"Massachusetts was the only state to have failed to post any gain in its pool of employed residents," professors Sum and McLaughlin concluded.

In an April 2003 meeting with the Massachusetts congressional delegation in Washington, Romney failed to endorse President Bush's $726 billion tax-cut proposal."

[Cato Institute annual Fiscal Policy Report Card - America's Governors, 2004.]

Romney's "accomplishments".

1. Implemented/created Gay Marriage in MA

2. Supported and forced Gay Adoption in MA

3. Supported Abortion wholeheartedly

4. Raised taxes/fees over 300% while being Governor of MA

5. Implemented a state-level Cap and Trade system.

6. Supported Man-Made Global Warming

7. Supported the Brady Bill

8. Implemented a state level “Assault” Weapons Ban after the Federal AWB was allowed to expire.

9. Supported TARP

10. Supported Amnesty for Illegal Aliens (Citizenship for those already here)

11. Supported McCain-Kennedy (Amnesty)

12. Implemented a socialized medicine in MA called RomneyCare complete with an Individual Mandate and $50 abortions.

13. Nominated 27 Democrats (out of 36 nominations) for judgeships in MA, many of them extreme left-wingers.

People reading your “facts” should read the book about lying by statistics. For example, if I ran a state where every person had a job when I entered office and every person still had a job when I left I could be accused by a statistical liar of having failed to reduce the unemployment rate … and they would be right! It is a fact that when Romney left office the unemployment rate in Massachusetts was 4.7%. I would say that’s a pretty good number, but perhaps you would disagree.

Before I leave your list of grievances against Romney, let me say first that Romney is not my first choice for President, but at this point, he’s my ONLY choice. Obama must be defeated. Anyone on the Right who refuses to vote for Romney out of pique, out of the belief that we can have perfection as an alternative to Obama, is delusional. Second, your willingness to use Democrat talking points without taking the time or effort to find out why and how they are fooling you is a disservice to this country and, I should add, a disservice to the principles that Jim Robinson and the people around him espouse.

Regards.