[Mr Rogers]

It isn’t his religion or money. It is the fact that he ran for Gov as a ‘Ted Kennedy Republican’ and then ran for Pres as ‘Mr Conservative’.

Some of us like our candidates to have beliefs.

BTW - I voted for Mitt in hopes of stopping McCain. I think a Mitt/Sarah ticket in 2008 would have been pretty strong. A Palin/Mitt ticket in 2012 might do OK.

[Diogenesis]

"(Romney) ran for Gov as a ‘Ted Kennedy Republican’ and then ran for Pres as ‘Mr Conservative’."

BINGO. Romney installed the most fascist socialist healthcare system ever,
and --in the usual Romney-way-- not a single citizen voted on it.

Romney signing his imposed fascist, socialist HillaryCARE=RomneyCARE without a vote
to the glee of Democrats everywhere.

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The five states with least favorable business climates are Califorinia (lowest ranking), New York, Michigan, New Jersey and Massachusetts.

Romney was rated a "C" overall by Cato. Here are the facts.

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.]