“Now that Mitt is the presumptive nominee, the media will be accusing him of being the right of Ghenghis Khan.”
Which of course is a lie. His record as governor is to the left of Bill Clinton’s and Jimmy Carter’s.
But supposedly the reasons he only ran for one term were
1) wanted to run for Pres.
2) knew he couldn’t defeat the Dem candidate in ‘06 (Deval
Patrick, who turned out to be the first black gov in history of the Commonwealth)
If his record were truly to the left maybe he could have run
for a second term and then run for Pres. while keeping his
office (as Kerry did). He knew he would have gotten trounced.
(btw he got elected in the first place because “Acting Gov.” Jane Swift was a disaster, polls horribly low.
I think his opponent was Dem. Shannon O’Brien, who was
kinda weak. MA occasionally elects moderate Republicans
such as Romney (lefty to the rest of the country,
“Moderate” here). But he knew he couldn’t win re-election.
They were itching to put a Dem back in.