Posted on 01/18/2010 1:46:09 PM PST by rabscuttle385
The upper echelon of Republican Scott Brown’s Senate campaign in Massachusetts is filled with staffers who once worked in former Gov. Mitt Romney’s employ.
But with the eyes of the nation on the state’s Jan. 19 special Senate election — and with other Republican luminaries such as Rudy Giuliani traipsing through Massachusetts for Brown in recent days — Romney himself has been conspicuously absent.
Despite his status as one of the GOP’s most prominent national figures and a prospective 2012 presidential candidate, the former Massachusetts governor hasn’t appeared publicly with Brown since late October. Back then, when almost no one thought Brown had a chance of winning, Romney hosted several public fundraising events for the state senator — including one at an Italian restaurant in Brown’s hometown of Wrentham.
And Romney was missing again this past weekend, when former Massachusetts GOP Govs. Bill Weld and Paul Cellucci campaigned for Brown.
While the former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate did release an e-mail appeal asking supporters to make phone calls to voters on Brown’s behalf, an aide said that Romney was out of the state.
Romney's absence from the campaign trail, several pollsters and political operatives said, is no comment on Brown. Rather, it’s a reflection of Romney’s diminished political standing in Massachusetts, where he held the governor’s mansion for one term before leaving to seek the White House.
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Hell no!
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Good thing for Brown. Romney would ruin his chances for sure.
Since Brown is running against ObamaCare as much as he is Coakley, and since Massachusetts residence likely view RomneyCare as a microcosm of what’s to come, I’d say Romney’s absence is a good thing. Let me rephrase that; it’s essential.
Mitt tried to claim credit for Brown’s good numbers yesterday. But I would imagine that Brown told him to stay away. And someone yesterday said that he told Michael Steele to stay away, too.
Smart campaigning, I’d say.
As for using some of Romney’s people, well, it’s the same state, and there are only so many Republican party people in the state. So of course there’s some overlap. What’s he supposed to do? Clone all new people?
Romney is trying to throw this election like that
POS did in Election2008.
Romney is hated in Massachusetts, and suddenly
taking credit for Scott Brown’s “win” before the
election, even as RomneyBOTs on FR and elsewhere
put Scott Brown down. Incredible.
I really expected Romney to get involved in this race; it’s taylor-made for him and he could have crowed about the results. Yet, he’s keeping low, which to my mind, means he’s not running in 2012.
Mitt would NEVER miss a chance to have his face out there and have all of the credit go to him, yet he’s purposely staying away. Why?
I think Romneycare is more damaging than his supporters think, yet Mitt is a smart guy and I think even he sees that he just can’t get his face out there whenever the topic is healthcare. He’ll face the same problem in 2012, which is why I think he doesn’t run.
Add to that another sign he’s not running: he’s not attending the SRLC this year, a convention that any hopeful wouldn’t pass up.
If either retread, McRomney or Huckapoo is the GOP nominee in ‘12, Obama wins by a landslide.
Scott Brown is a full repudiation of RomneyCare by people who know.
Dear Politico,
We don’t want Mitt. A “choice” between him and Obama really is no choice at all. He would be a guaranteed loser since upwards of 1/3rd of the GOP base would stay home or just vote for other races but not POTUS.
Yours truly,
Conservatives.
Politico hasn't one nice word to say about Conservative Sarah Palin.
Yo Politico, don’t make me go JimRob on your RINO, Mitt Romney loving ass!
All you people may hate him but Romney is the reason Scott Brown is winning today.
Five months ago Brown was a little known State Senator from a remote town in Massachusetts. George Romney took him under his wing and gave him the support of his campaign workers. He also ran fund raisers for him that allowed the campaign to get off the ground.
Think about it, a little known local politician all of a sudden has a professionally structured campaign like Brown has? You think he did it on his own?
Hate Romney if you want but he’s done more for Scott Brown then any of you at Free Republic have done.
Washington is shocked - shocked, I say - to see folks moving into star positions without the usual players cluttering up the stage.
It's the People's house, and we are taking it back.
Scott Brown made himself a conservative and a man for decades.
On the other hand, Mitt Romney screwed everyone (you too?)
as a liberal dictator scheming backstabber over the same time.
"Governor Mitt Romney, who touts his conservative credentials to out-of-state Republicans,
has passed over GOP lawyers for three-quarters of the 36 judicial vacancies he has faced,
instead tapping registered Democrats or independents -- including two gay lawyers who
have supported expanded same-sex rights, a Globe review of the nominations has found.
Of the 36 people Romney named to be judges or clerk magistrates, 23 are either registered Democrats
or unenrolled voters who have made multiple contributions to Democratic politicians
or who voted in Democratic primaries, state and local records show.
In all, he has nominated nine registered Republicans, 13 unenrolled voters,
and 14 registered Democrats."
- Boston Globe 7/25/2005
Romney Rewards one of the State's Leading Anti-Marriage Attorneys by Making him a Judge
Romney told the U.S. Senate on June 22, 2004, that the "real threat to the States is not the
constitutional amendment process, in which the states participate,
but activist judges who disregard the law and redefine marriage . . ."
Romney sounds tough but yet he had no qualms advancing the legal career of one
of the leading anti-marriage attorneys. He nominated Stephen Abany to a District Court.
Abany has been a key player in the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association which,
in its own words, is "dedicated to ensuring that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decision
on marriage equality is upheld, and that any anti-gay amendment or legislation is defeated."
- U.S. Senate testimony by Gov. Mitt Romney, 6/22/2004 P>
"Romney announces he won't fill judicial vacancies before term ends
Despite his rhetoric about judicial activism, Romney announced that
he won't fill all the remaining vacancies during his term - but instead
leave them for his liberal Democrat successor!
Governor Mitt Romney pledged yesterday not to make a flurry of lame-duck
judicial appointments in the final days of his administration . . . David Yas,
editor of Lawyers Weekly, said Romney is "bucking tradition" by resisting the urge to
fill all remaining judgeships. "It is a tradition for governors to use that power to appoint judges
aggressively in the waning moments of their administration," Yas said.
He added that Romney has been criticized for failing to make judicial appointments.
"The legal community has consistently criticized him for not filling open seats quickly enough
and being a little too painstaking in the process and being dismissive of the input of the
Judicial Nominating Commission," Yas said.
- Boston Globe 11/2/2006
“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 Republican voters
warning them about a certain presidential candidate named Romney.”
- Boston Herald, 11/12/2006
"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,”
[Jim] Rappaport [former chairman of the state Republican Party]."
- Boston Globe, 11/8/2006
Really? What did Romney say exactly?
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