This isn't news to New Englanders. Romney's a HUGE whore, always has been. "Yearning" for the Presidency is a good way to describe it; another way would be to say that he'd sell anything, anywhere, anytime, to anyone for a shot at the Presidency. And that includes his own mother.

The funniest thing is that he's too stupid to realize that there's no way he could get the nomination. Far too many rednecks down south were raised thinking that Mormons had horns, forked tails, and carried pitchforks. It's a truism among them that Mormons aren't Christians.

There's not a chance in Hell that the GOP movers and shakers would let Romney get on the ticket, because that's just about the ONLY way that they'd lose the South.

The rest of the US thinks Massachusetts is a very liberal, politically "sophisticated" state. The rest of the country is wrong, when it comes to the election of governors. Perhaps in overreaction to the failed second (post-presidential run) of Michael Dukakis, Massachusetts has elected a series of hacks and dumbbells. From the je ne give a damn pas, William Weld, to the call me after the seventh race, Paul Cellucci, to the current Bush-Lite, Dimmitty Romney, Massachusetts has gone against the trend to elect capable technocrats to run the state and have followed the national trend of electing empty-suit Republicans.

Romney looks wonderful. He talks well. He has been as effectual as governor as Gary Coleman stopping Kobe Bryant on the fast break. Romney is also hypocritical. He ran for office as a squeaky-clean Mormon, in the squeaky-clean way Wayne Newton now sings Danke Schoen. Romney, who like Bush ran behind his faith during the campaign, became the first governor in current times to authorize an execution. His plans for reforming education, as long the lines of "No Child Left Behind", was long on teacher bashing and short on funding and results. Romney's story will be how he fought to slash the income tax (an extra $3 per week for someone making $1,000 per week) while schools, roads and other infrastructure are crumbling. Massachusetts' ecomony, the darling of the nation under Dukakis, has lost its high-tech leadership because of the cutting of state investment in start-up and early-stage technology companies.

Romney has shown to be a mix of Weld's apathy and Cellucci's policical scion incompentence. While our political cousins on the coast bash Ahnold, at least he has gained some political bearing and appears to be trying to govern. Romney has made and, by running for President, is making no such pretense.

Consider Mitt Romeny to be the political equivalent of the spawn of Chucky. You can laugh at his over-the-top antics, but his actions are just as self-aggrandizing, mean-spirited and incompetent as the Bush-Cheney cabal.

As a liberal, there's nothing I would like more than for Mitt Romney to win the GOP nomination for president in 2008. I think Kerry and Dukakis' defeats had more to do with being from Mass. than their politics. The vast majority of the U.S. electorate just won't vote for northeastern presidential candidates. Unfortunately, I don't think Romney has a snowball's chance in hell; but hey, a liberal can always dream!

Let's call it straight for a change. This sect is one of the most rightwing elements in the Republican Party. Ever been to Utah? Want that here?

Carbon emission reduction requires work by individual end-user

consumers as well as by industry. The less electricity the

individual end-user uses, the less coal gets burned to make that

less electricity. The less gas or oil the individual end-user

uses, the less gas or oil gets burned to meet that lesser use.

And, therefor, the less carbon gets emitted.

What is my standing to make such a suggestion? What is my

credibility? What is my household energy consumption level?

Well...I am the sole member of a 1-person family unit of

1. I live alone by myself with nobody else, in a 644 square

foot co-op townhouse unit. My most recent energy bill for

gas and electric combined was $95.00 and change. The bill

before that was $90.00 and change. My natural gas usage was

130 cubic feet per day over both those bills. My electricity

usage was 3.7 kilowatt-hours per day over the last bill. I

forget what it was for the bill before that. Last spring, summer,and fall, my combined gaselectric bills averaged $21.00

and change per month. I live in Michigan.

If those figures are lower than the average end-user residential per-capita use, then I have some standing to

suggest that other end-users can lower their end use. Whatever

personal credibility I have, is in those figures.

As someone who was born in MA and lived there over three decades, this latest Romney move does not surprise me in the least. Massachusetts - supposed liberal bastion of the U.S. - only elected Romney because the Democrats ran a woman against him. I, personally, voted for O'Brien, but most MA residents are pretty traditional when you get off the coast, and they'll happily vote for a right-wing mormon over a woman.

Also, for anyone who thinks that this sort of thing is odd for Romney, check out this blog:

It's not mine, but I've been reading it for years and it really gives good insight into MA politics - or, at least, Romney politics.

For some reason, it seems that the blog url I posted was stripped out...

http://romneyisafraud.blogspot.com/