[dirtboy]

Looks like Rudy asked Deroy to write a hit piece on Mitt. Should be about as effective as Deroy’s preposterous columns painting Rudy as pro-life.

[Red Badger]

If the current governor of MA runs into fiscal problems, will he blame MITT?.....

[dirtboy]

Romney's administration fades badly beside Giuliani's accomplishments.

Deroy needs to start a new TV show - Pimp My RINO.

[Ol' Sparky]

Murdock will tell the truth about Romney but won’t about RINO Rudy? Murdock is a hack. He ought to have the intellectual honest of resigning as a columnist and joining Giuliani’s campaign.

[Jaysun]

I never listen to anyone named Deroy or Taz or Mitt.

[Rocky]

Romney is smooth, charismatic and handsome. Someday, he could portray George Clooney's older brother in "Ocean's 14."

I have to admit that that's a good line.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Both the Rudy and Romney campaigns are desperate.

I truly believe this race will be between Fred Thompson and Ron Paul.

[ansel12]

“”It would be easier to draw parallels if, like Giuliani, Romney had won re-election, rather than duck a second-term bid that experts widely predicted he would lose.””

I didn’t know that Romney’s only claim to fame was a single Governors term.

[x]

Romney was only in office for four years. "Miracle" is going too far and is too reminiscent of Michael Dukakis, but if Massachusetts had an economic comeback, it has more to do with 16 years of Republican governors than with Mitt Romney alone.

The loss of manufacturing jobs is serious, but it took place before Romney took office, so you can't blame him for most of that. Romney didn't make any secret of the fact that the state had lost jobs in the years before his governorship, but he was determined to do something about that. Whatever effects Romney's policies had wouldn't show up until after he'd been in office for a while.

My impression is that it's a wash: Romney can't claim phenomenal successes, but he also can't be saddled with long-term failures. His problem is that one-term governors have a hard time making a case for their election to higher office.

A lot gets made out of the fact that so few Senators have been elected President. Someone should take a look at governors -- particularly one term governors who got elected President. Franklin Roosevelt comes to mind. Also Jimmy Carter. And further back, Grover Cleveland. Theodore Roosevelt and Calvin Coolidge were both governors for short periods before becoming Vice President.

I don't know about the others, but Carter is a good reason for wanting more experience than one term as a state governor from the politicians we elect President.

[lowbridge]

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