JoeB131
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It's fine not to like Romney, I get that. But it's not ok to simply make up your own facts. He didn't govern as a liberal. Not even close. When Romney was Gov of MA there was an 85% Dem majority in the legislature. Did you know that? Do you have a clue what that meant? Did you also know what Travaglini and the legislature was up to wrg to healthcare? Trust someone who knows and lives here, it was going to be true socialized medicine. What Romney proposed was good for MA, for a single state, and a state that supported it. That is a conservative virtue. Anything the legislature wanted to overturn they could. The only way Romney could get anything done was to use the bully pulpit and leadership. He cleaned up the Big Dig, he balanced the budget making some tough choices.
If it was an 85% liberal legislature, then they could have passed socialized medicine without Romney's input. That's pretty much a veto proof majority.
I should also point out that Mitten's immediate predecessor was a Republican. So were the two before that. Celluci and Weld were able to get elected as Republicans, and won by better margins than Romney did AND Weld got re-elected.
You could put your paragon of Conservatism in MA as Gov and he/she would get NOTHING done as an 85% legislature would overturn every veto and stop anything they want.
You simply don't have a clue or have an agenda but you really have to look at the facts and the circumstances and the situation. Romney is a conservative. It's a fact. But he could have either accomplished nothing or tried, worked with the loons in MA, kept trying, make smart compromises and try and impart the best changes and stem the moonbats as best he could.
Again, the problem with this argument is that he's willing to go along to get along. So what happens in 2014 if the Democrats regain Congress? Is he going to get along then?
The problem is that Romney isn't a conservative or a liberal. He's an oppurtunist. He says what he thinks his audience wants to hear. Going from "I will be better than Teddy on gay rights" to "I am totally against Gay Marriage."
Oppurtunists worry me. Their own ego usually blots out anything else.