Posted on 02/02/2008 4:33:02 PM PST by bugseye
Real Romney record in Massachusetts By Matt Kinnaman Article Last Updated: 02/01/2008 01:08:08 PM EST
Saturday, February 02 LEE Massachusetts has suffered for nearly 50 years under a growing Democrat monopoly in the Legislature, leading to one of America's most inhospitable business and economic climates. When Mitt Romney was inaugurated governor in 2003, the Massachusetts Legislature was drunk with deficit spending, and awash in regulatory revels, suffocating entrepreneurial energy and reducing incentives for existing companies to stay in the state, never mind relocate here. These same lawmakers routinely ignored the will of the voters on ballot initiatives, including their smack-down of the people's approval of an income tax reduction which the Legislature refused (and still refuses) to implement.
It's no wonder that Mitt Romney inherited a state economy that trailed overall national numbers in manufacturing, output, job growth, and employment. The real wonder is that, as a Republican governor entering this morass of economic opposition and obstructionism he was able to pull the budget into the black and build a big surplus, while forestalling an adversarial Legislature on income and capital gains tax increases.
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I like Fred too. I'm in the minority.
No, the fact that we have three wannabes splitting the vote and not one will receive the requisite number of votes/delegates to win is just happening. No engineering involved. If the convention is deadlocked there’s no telling what might happen. One of the possible outcomes is that they cannot settle on RomneyMcHuck, so have to look elsewhere. One can pray that the one who can unite the factions is a conservative.
Why the future tense? It already does not matter which of these five fools wins.
yeah
romney=mccain=huckabee=paul=petronski
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Oooh, a personal attack. You must be a Romney supporter.
Look, if you have Alladin’s lamp it would be nice if you’d let us in on that. Then we all would be confident in your pie-in-the-sky prediction. My prediction: the last best hope of having a candidate with even a modicum of conservative blood will tank in deference to McCain. No brokered convention. No conservative savior.
Doesn’t require a lamp to see that if Huckabee stays in, the vote remains split. If he drops out, McCain gets the benefit.
I'm hardly a Romney sychophant. But I don't suffer from Romney Derangement Syndrome either.
I guess we’ll know soon enough.
You don’t know a damn thing about the Cato Institute, do you? If it was Heritage, I’d believe it.
Btw, Romney was able to cut spending more than Huckabee. More, even, than was actually claimed.
My deepest apologies.
I misunderstood you, and moods around here are on edge (not the least of which, mine, to say the least).
That light at the end of the tunnel is the oncoming train, bedecked with red flags and socialist slogans.
That's how I think anyone who considers themselves grown-up would look at it.
Now Romney is the most conservative candidate. Still the vitriol continues hoping for a brokered convention. Pipe dream. Something we call in pool, a low percentage shot. Do something else.
I make exception for McCain. He hates us. He deserves all the vitriol we can dish out.
If he was any good the Massachusetts GOP would have gained seats in the legislature. But they didn’t. Heck, at least one county could have voted Bush in ‘04 under Romney’s leadership. Nope.
Did he do anything to build a case for his supposed conservatism, to actually try and get it through? To win over minds? Not a chance.
Bubbles the Chimp could have sat in the Massachusetts Governor’s seat and done more for the conservative cause than Mitt Romney did if you believe this perspective.
Mitt Romney: He’ll say anything to get elected, but he’ll do none of it once he is elected.
By the way, since you obviously did not read the article: “Romney did the politically impossible in Massachusetts. He stood athwart the most tax-happy Legislature in the nation and shouted “stop!” And he won. As governor, Romney displayed precisely the economic leadership needed from the next president.”
I wish the anti Romney zealots who desperately want Hillary or Obama to be president would get lost already.
Go, Mitt!
btt
It wasn’t Romney’s fault. Like his father before him, he was brainwashed.
And how is John McCain truly better for all of U.S. conservatism? All of the remaining Presidential choices for the GOP stink, but they are all also not conservative enough. Most conservatives are also familiar with all of Senator McCain’s anti-conservative ways during McCain’s entire duration of being a U.S. Senator, and this is also a long list.
Well then my testimony will disappoint you. My attitude is “a pox on all their houses.” The five fools I mentioned above are Clinton-Huckabee-McCain-Obama-Romney.
I have no use for any of them and do not harbor any sky-pie dreams of a brokered convention.
I do, however, consider myself grownup, as do many many others.
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