Posted on 05/21/2007 8:29:14 PM PDT by Quicksilver
I don’t care whether it’s Romney-Thompson or Thompson-Romney.
That would work, too. It wouldn’t be my ideal, but still very appealing. :)
Nope, I’m not the only one making that “claim.” It’s a fact, and just because you Willardbots refuse to see it, don’t try to pull the wool over the eyes of everyone else.
Let me ask you something, what do you call someone who comes riding on a great white horse to save the MA GOP as he claimed to do back in ‘02, has one electoral setback in the next election, and then decides he doesn’t want anything to do with the arduous task of party building and decides instead to run for President, leaving the state to a hapless candidate to carry the party banner, and ultimately handing his office to a grossly incompetent Marxist ? I know what I call them. Unqualified.
It's not his fault he's articulate.
Should he stoop over, slack-jawed, and talk like a dimwit?
Romney’s dismal record as the Republican leader in Massachusetts
Romney pledged to build the Massachusetts Republican Party, but in fact he did almost nothing. During his tenure there were two elections for the entire Legislature (2004 and 2006). In each election the Republicans lost seats. Republicans now hold the fewest seats in the Legislature since the Civil War.
During the four years of Romney’s tenure, the number of registered Republicans in Massachusetts fell by 31,000. During that same period, the Massachusetts Democratic Party gained 30,000.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
In the 2006 elections, most offices were not even challenged by Republican candidates. In the November general election for the six statewide Massachusetts constitutional offices there were more Green-Rainbow Party candidates on the ballot than Republicans!
The party’s slide has been so precipitous that Republicans yesterday did not contest 130 of 200 legislative seats, fielded a challenger in only three of 10 congressional districts, and put up fewer candidates for statewide office (three) than the Green-Rainbow Party (four).
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
In 2006, while Romney was chairman of the National Republican Governors Association - a group dedicated to electing more Republican governors - his own hand-picked Republican successor as governor lost badly to the Democrat, despite the fact that Republicans have held the governorship in Massachusetts since 1990. Romney largely ignored the Massachusetts elections and spent most of the time during the campaign out of state building his presidential campaign. He came back and publicly campaigned for the Republican candidate the day before the general election!
“Locally, this is a rebuke to Mitt Romney and checking out within six months after being elected and having accomplished almost nothing,” said [Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party].
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
“Romney arrived on the scene with great promise, but is leaving the Republican Party here in shambles. Not only are the Republicans yielding the governor’s office for the first time in 16 years, but registered Republicans have fallen by 31,000 since Romney took office, and their legislative presence is at historic lows. But it worked out fine for him: He is now chasing the prize he really covets, the presidency.”
- Boston Globe 11/8/2006
“The Massachusetts Republican Party died last Tuesday. The cause of death: failed leadership. The party is survived by a few leftover legislators and a handful of county officials and grassroots activists who have been ignored for years. Services will be public and a mass exodus of taxpayers will follow. In lieu of flowers, send messages to New Hampshire Republican voters warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/marriage/romney/record/
No one is qualified for that task.
Let me ask you something, what do you call someone who comes riding on a great white horse to save the MA GOP as he claimed to do back in ‘02, has one electoral setback in the next election, and then decides he doesn’t want anything to do with the arduous task of party building and decides instead to run for President, leaving the state to a hapless candidate to carry the party banner, and ultimately handing his office to a grossly incompetent Marxist ? I know what I call them. Unqualified.I'm sorry, but that's just absurd. Are you saying that if Mitt Romney becomes the 44th president he won't be helping the GOP?
Better a shuffling, inarticulate, slack-jawed yokel who HELPS his party and doesn’t run away from his responsibilities than an articulate, good-looking, clean cut pretty boy who only looks out for #1 and to hell with party and everything else.
Fred Thompson is.
For those who aren’t already aware: MassResistance is futile! :)
“...good-looking, clean cut pretty boy...”
See, it’s this part of your post that always leaves me questioning your real motives are here. Perhaps if you left the references out to the superficial, it might help in making people take you a little more seriously. Just a suggestion.
Right. As usual, the bad and the ugly are never Mitt’s fault. It’s always someone or something else. Blech.
Never ran for Governor in Massachusetts did he?
You're damn right it's absurd, it's absurd we give the time of a day to a politician who abandons his ship of state to sink into the ocean and consider him Presidential timber. It's absurd because Romney did it. He's a cut and run pol. One setback and he takes his pail and shovel and runs away. What will this guy do when faced with a challenge in DC, instead of party-building, how about domestic or international terrorism ? He didn't have the courage to serve out two terms in Boston, and we're going to entrust this guy at THIS time, one of the most dangerous moments in our history ? That's a terrifying thought. As soon as a nuke goes off, he'll fly off to West Virginia to hide in a bunker, to hell with the rest of us. That's exactly what his record of accomplishment is. You know what, THAT's absurd !
"Are you saying that if Mitt Romney becomes the 44th president he won't be helping the GOP?"
You bet your jackass he won't.
Frankly, the Democrats at a national stage are weaker than they are in Massachusetts. The effort required to do a little here is equivalent to doing a lot there.
Read to what I was responding to. It’s Romney’s superficiliaties that seem to be so appealing to those unaware of his record. Being good looking and talking well isn’t sufficient qualifications. But this is all distractions anyway. No one can refute my central point of his enormous shortcomings as a Chief Exec. He’s unqualified, period.
That’s not the contest he’s running for, now is it ?
You have to lead in order to be a leader.
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