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The GOP would've better off bringing back ex-DINO Gov. Ed King or having John Silber switch parties. It took one election to see how bad Weld turned out to be, and 2 more to realize he was worse than AIDS to the GOP. If I were Romney, I'd want to rip off his ball$ with my bare teeth.

12 posted on 12/01/2005 7:34:54 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Cheney X -- Destroying the Liberal Democrat Traitors By Any Means Necessary -- Ya Dig ? Sho 'Nuff.)

During his term of office, Governor King froze property taxes, reduced state spending on social programs, undertook a variety of efforts to encourage increased business and agricultural opportunities in the Commonwealth, and took a tough stand on crime by introducing mandatory minimum sentences and passing legislation to reintroduce the death penalty in Massachusetts, a measure which was later ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts. President Ronald Reagan called King his "favorite Democratic governor" and King endorsed Reagan in the 1984 Presidential election.

Sounds more like a Republican to me than Weld, he was a good man too