{"id":7874,"date":"2012-05-29T11:18:50","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T18:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7874"},"modified":"2012-05-29T11:18:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T18:18:51","slug":"massachusetts-muck-for-mitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/29\/massachusetts-muck-for-mitt\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Muck for Mitt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Switch hit Mitt Romney has a good reason for concentrating on his experience with Bain Capital, despite vulnerability to attack, because of his history as a corporate raider there.  He prefers, anything over getting into his record as governor of Massachusetts.  Especially to his own party, Massachusetts is muck for Mitt.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"29Rmoney\"There’s an old saying<\/a><\/font> that "you can’t go home again." Especially if you’re Mitt Romney and home is Massachusetts<\/a><\/font>. After all, Governor Romney ended his tenure with a dismal 34 percent approval rating<\/a><\/font> and now trails President Obama<\/a><\/font> by as much as 20 points in his own state. Worse still, Romney launched his perpetual quest for the presidency by mocking Massachusetts to woo conservative Republican primary voters. And most damning of all, Massachusetts Mitt has betrayed his fellow Bay State residents by renouncing almost every pledge he made to them, including his signature health care reform law.<\/font><\/p>\n

That Mitt was using the governor’s mansion in Boston as a rest stop on the road to the White House was clear to many in Massachusetts even Romney took the oath of office. But as the Washington Post reported in September 2005<\/a><\/font>, Romney’s disdain for his neighbors was a stump speech staple two years before the first votes were cast in the 2008 GOP primaries:<\/font><\/p>\n

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, exploring a possible presidential run in 2008, has a message for his fellow Republicans. Take my state. Please!<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

"Being a conservative Republican in Massachusetts," he told a GOP audience in South Carolina, "is a bit like being a cattle rancher at a vegetarian convention."<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

Bada-bing. For months, this blue-state governor has been pitching himself to conservatives in a way that campaign experts say is highly unusual — perhaps even historic. Instead of talking about his home state with the usual lip-quivering pride, Romney uses it like a vaudeville comic would use his mother-in-law: as a laugh line.<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

As in: "There are more Republicans in this room tonight than I have in my state!" — another joke he used in South Carolina. <\/em><\/font><\/p>\n

At the time, his spokesman Julie Teer said the jokes would continue and insisted, "Of course, the Governor loves Massachusetts." His constituents weren’t so sure. As the Boston Globe<\/a><\/font> reported that spring, "Only 28 percent of those surveyed said Romney should seek the presidency, while 53 percent said he should not." After hearing about Romney’s Massachusetts mockery, one Brookline resident asked, "Well, what are you doing here?"\u2026 [emphasis original<\/em>]<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Pasted from <Crooks and Liars<\/a>><\/p>\n

Look how far this liar has etched his sketch since he was governor.<\/font><\/p>\n