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When I read articles like this about Mitt Romney, I feel like Miles Bennel at the end of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" - wandering around on a busy road, trying to warn passersby of an impending disaster...only to be ignored.
PLEASE look into Mitt Romney's record as governor of Massachusetts. It's a joke. It utterly dispels the myth of Romney as the efficient, effective administrator. His looks, his smooth handling of his "brand" and message? Those are his only skills.
He was a disaster as governor. Okay, perhaps his supporters will argue that his incompetence was deliberate; his way of attacking a state and voting public which he has clearly shown that he despises. Is there a Republican group in any primary state which HASN'T heard Mitt Romney attack the people of Massachusetts? I doubt it.
Under his watch, the Big Dig collapsed and killed a woman. Public transit decayed even further. Parks - Massachusetts is blessed with astonishingly beautiful parks, many created by Frederick Law Olmsted himself. Under the administration of "Mr. Efficiency", they've become the most neglected, decayed parks in the country.
My own experience: I saw regular, dangerous overcrowding on a commuter train and wrote an email to Mitt Romney's office about it. How long did it take for his office to respond?
Five months. And when they did, it was with a kiss-off form email. No action was taken, of course.
Romney would do anything to get the Presidency. ANYTHING. But he won't be a good one - he may even make George W. Bush look good in retrospect, impossible as that seems!
Please check for yourself. Mitt Romney has fabricated a myth of himself as a great businessman. But that's all it is - a myth. Surely the war in Iraq has taught us how dangerous it is to uncritically swallow a myth made up by a self-serving politician?
