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I was a Massachusetts resident for many years, and I've been watching Mitt Romney's political career for even longer. So I couldn't be more positive when I say this:
Mitt Romney would do anything for a shot at the Presidency. Flip-flopping is just the start. He'd kill, or pimp his own mother to improve his chances. Remember Martin Sheen as the bad President in The Dead Zone? That's Romney. He'd gladly kill a baby to gain a few votes, if that would do it.
There is no stand he wouldn't change, NOTHING he wouldn't do. Sell out the US to the Chinese government? In a heartbeat, if he really believed it would secure the Presidency for him.
I know this all sounds crazy, but if Romney wins I'll be pointing to this post within three years and saying "I TOLD you so!".
And as someone else mentioned - he's completely incompetent. His major political assets are his looks, his connections to the LDS church, and his absolutely lack of any principles whatsoever. His administration in Massachusetts was as incompetent as the Bush Administration - I'd say more so, but that's not possible.
The collapse of the Big Dig happened on his watch. The MA economy is NOT doing well - major businesses are fleeing like mad. His much-touted universal health plan is an unimplementable joke, foisting punitive fines on those too poor to pay for health care. Virtually every government service went down the toilet under Romney.
The "Efficient Republican Businessman" Romney rep is perhaps the biggest joke of all.
I wrote an email to him about dangerous, life-threatening conditions on the commuter rail (some lines are routinely given too few coaches, and typically have twenty or more people standing in the aisles in each coach - a definite hazard if there were to be an accident, as has happened fairly often). How long did it take Mr. Efficiency's office to respond?
Five months.
Five months to respond with a kiss-off form email. And of course, nothing has been done.
It horrifies me that people are taking this man seriously as a candidate. And it dismays me that I have to place my hopes in the religious bigotry of the southern Religious Right.
