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Massachusetts

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Mitt Romney and the Super Tuesday States: Massachusetts

 

"Tested, Proven"

 

Gov. Romney's Fifth Campaign Ad

 

 

Massachusetts Questions for Mitt Romney

  1. Brian Lamb
    1. Why did you pick Massachusetts as a place to stay after school?
    2. How did you get elected governor of the state of Massachusetts?


 

Massachusetts Romney Links

  1. http://massformitt.com/
  2. Massachusetts on MittRomney.com
  3. Mitt Romney Campaign Events in Massachusetts
  4. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mittromney/tags/massachusetts/

News

 

 

What others are saying

 

Wanda Andrade Of Brockton, Massachusetts: "He Does The Right Thing, And I Like People Who Do The Right Thing." "A number of voters said they admired the governor's morality. Wanda Andrade, 43, a Democrat and nursing assistant from Brockton, said she was a friend of Milena Del Valle, the woman who was killed in the Big Dig tunnel collapse. Andrade was moved by what she described as Romney's kindness to the family. 'They were poor people, and he responded right away,' she said. 'He does the right thing, and I like people who do the right thing.'" (Lisa Wangsness, "Voters Voice Regard, Regret Over Romney," The Boston Globe, 12/26/06)

 

Matt Hayes Of Brookline, Massachusetts: Governor Romney Turned Deficits Into Surpluses. "Matt Hayes, 31, an undeclared voter from Brookline who owns Jamaica Plain Auto Body, pointed out that Romney turned the state's deficits into surpluses, 'which the Democratic primary candidates were all fighting over how to spend.'" (Lisa Wangsness, "Voters Voice Regard, Regret Over Romney," The Boston Globe, 12/26/06)

 

 

 

  • "There's no question I do love jokes," Romney answered when queried on this point. "Indicating that there are very few conservative Republicans in Massachusetts, I do not think is a surprise to anyone inside or outside of Massachusetts and is in no way an indictment of the state. If anything, it's a recognition that I have to do a better job of recruiting Republicans."
    • Governor Mitt Romney, Mighty Mitt Romney, By Shawn Macomber, The American Spectator, 04-21-2006

 

As for Democrats' complaints about the amount of out-of-state traveling he's done, Romney refuses to repent. "My guess is my travel outside of the state has been far less than either Michael Dukakis or Senator Kerry," he said, adding, "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, and I would encourage my Democratic friends to remember that."

    • Governor Mitt Romney, Mighty Mitt Romney, By Shawn Macomber, The American Spectator, 04-21-2006

 

So, to be clear, did Romney -- who came here in 1975 to seek degrees from both Harvard Business and Law schools -- pursue the governorship out of some Machiavellian plan to attain higher office, or does he love the state he leads?

    • Governor Mitt Romney, Mighty Mitt Romney, By Shawn Macomber, The American Spectator, 04-21-2006

 

  • "We've lived here now 34 years, raised all five of our sons here, and paid a mountain of taxes here," Romney noted. "You don't do that unless you enjoy the state and the economic, social, and cultural opportunities which it provides."
    • Governor Mitt Romney, Mighty Mitt Romney, By Shawn Macomber, The American Spectator, 04-21-2006

Press Releases

 

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2004

 

 

2005

 

 

 

2006

 

2007

 

 

 

My thoughts on the matter

 

The following is my responce to this article:

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/25/AR2005092501146_pf.html

 

 

Mitt Romney did not, "...make his state the butt of his Jokes". He did not even make Massachusetts liberals the Butt of his Jokes

 

 

 

Romney said, "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."

 

 

 

Does this the truth hurt the feelings of liberals? Romney is saying the truth. Massachusetts is the most liberal state in the union. Is this fact off limits for Romney to point out? Should Romney be allowed to have a sense of humor? Should he laugh at the fact that he is a Republican Governor of the most liberal state, or must he assume a somber attatude, and never dare make fun of the fact that Republicans are a minority is Massachussetts?

 

 

 

David A. Fahrenthold says the following:

 

"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."

 

"As in: "There are more Republicans in this room tonight than I have in my state!" -- another joke he used in South Carolina."

 

David. You are wrong. He is not making fun of every citizen in Massachusetts. He is pointing out the fact that there happen to be a lot of liberals in that state. Is this wrong? Did he say everyone is Massachusetts is dumb? Did he say they are ugly? Did he make fun of them? No. He did not critisize them, he just said there are a lot of liberals. Is he wrong?

 

Jeffrey M. Berry, a professor of political science at Tufts University in Medford , Mass said the following:

 

"For an incumbent governor to make fun of the state seemed gratuitous, I think people sort of felt he was flipping the bird to voters here."

 

Jeffery M. Berry (let me guess, a liveral) is saying something that is wrong. Romney did not make fun of the state. He said there were a lot of liberals. He didn't even make fun of liberals. He didn't say they smell bad, support the communist in China, or have a hard time getting a date. He just said there are a lot of them in Massachusetts.

 

David goes on:

 

"Romney, 58, is a transplant from Michigan who raised his family here and gained prominence as a Boston businessman."

 

These darn "transplants" from Michigan. We hates them don't we? Those outsiders. David. How long has Romney lived in Massachusetts? Wait, this just in. David, does not live in Massachusetts! OH MY GOSH. DAVID isn't even a transplant. He writes for the Washington Times. Washington is not in Massachusetts . David is not pure. He does not have pure Massachusetts blood runing through his vains. He is even worse than Romney. He never has converted to the commonwealth. He lives in WASHINGTON!

 

David (not from Massachusetts) continues:

 

 

"He has an actor's good looks, ample charisma as a speaker and a résumé that includes turning around the scandal-plagued 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics".

 

Notice how David mentions stupid stuff like his good looks. He doesn't mention anything about Romney living in Massachusetts most of his life. Coming close to beating Kennedy for Senate. Helping Massachusetts companies. Getting Law and Business degrees from a Massachusetts school

 

"He was elected governor in 2002 -- becoming the fourth consecutive Republican to hold that office. Bay State politicos explain this trend by saying that their Republicans usually tend to be moderate, and their majority Democratic Party tends to stage death-match-style gubernatorial primaries that leave candidates exhausted and broke".

 

David! David! David! How dare you critisize the democrats in Massachusetts. Saying they, "stage death-match-style gubernatorial primaries that leave candidates exhausted and broke." Are you emplying that Democrats in Massachusetts, no all citizens of Massachusetts are stupid? That is not a good way to endere your Washington Times to the readers in Boston.

Davod continues:

 

"Exhibit A of how politicians usually treat their home states: George W. Bush. For Bush, Texas has served as both a showcase for his educational reforms and a symbol of his grounding in the real world -- a place where he was proud to wear blue jeans and cut brush."

 

 

Does anyone see a problem here? Come one! Do I really have to say it? David. WHEN ROMNEY SPEAKS HE ALSO TALKS ABOUT THE THINGS THAT HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED IN HIS STATE!

 

"When Romney speaks to audiences out of state, however, he uses a different blueprint. He does describe policy successes achieved during his term as governor, including the streamlining of state bureaucracy and improvements in educational opportunities."

David continues his faulty logic:

 

 

"For example, at a June speech to the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women, Romney had a routine that made fun of his state's far-over-budget "Big Dig" highway project, its problems with organized crime and its Democratic junior senator."

 

Is Romney not supposed to ever mention a problem in Massachusetts that he helped solve?

 

"Specifically, he made fun of Sen. John F. Kerry's suntan, with a joke that included the term "Code Orange." That is bad for Kerry, but it also reminds people that Romney's state elected him."

 

Once again, he is not making fun of Massachusetts, he is making fun of John F. Kerry. Is making fun of John F. Kerry off limits? Is this some how making fun of Massachusetts? How do these people get jobs writing for major newspapers?

 

Lets go back to David:

 

"Presidential campaign historians say they understand why Romney is doing it: He has to overcome the same "liberal Massachusetts" stereotype that has stymied previous Democratic presidential candidates such as Kerry and former Massachusetts governor Michael S. Dukakis."

 

You needed multiple "presidential campaign hisorians" to tell us that Romney is being accused of being liberal just because he is from Massachusetts? Romney is standing up for Massachusetts. He is telling the rest of the world that not everyone from Massachusetts is like Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, or Michael S. Kukakis. He is talling America that there are norman sane Americans that happen to live in Massachusetts.

 

I'm going to use the B-Work now, so please, if you are young, don't let continue reading. I think Massachusetts is like anywere else, but they have a very liberal media that, here it comes, "BRAINWASHES" its citizens.

 

This is an excelent example. Mitt Romney makes fun of Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and Michael S. Kukakis, and David tells the citizens of Massachusetts that he is making fun of them. The citizens. David has got the game down. He quotes un-named people with very long titles (Presidential campaign historians), to state obvious facts as thought they are insiteful (guess what? Romney needs to find some way to distengish himself from previous presidential hopefuls like Kerry, Ted Drunk Driving Kennedy, and Michael S. Dukakis).

 

Now david contradicts himself; "Lyndon B. Johnson had to separate himself from racist elements in Texas, and Ronald Reagan did the same with the hippie fringe in California. Looking further back, there was Grover Cleveland, who in 1884 used the slogan "Grover the Good" to separate himself from the political corruption in his home state of New York".

 

That wasn't very hard!

 

But they continue with the anti-smart analisis:

 

"But Romney is "much more overt," Yanek Mieczkowski, a presidential historian at Dowling College in New York said: It's not a fringe element he's talking badly about, it's the entire electorate.

 

When did Romney atack the "entire electorate"? That is not true. Romney has never attacked the entire electorate of Massachusetts.

I don't know how many of you out there like Rush Limbaugh, but he has lots of things that he has added to the debate. He always uses the phrase, "sympolism over substance". Thats all this is. Romney should not have attacked Kerry, Ted Drunk Driving Kennedy, or Michael S. Dukakis. It was the wrong symbolism. Lets not look at the substance that Mitt Romney has ever used to critisize the decisions made by Dukakis, lets just make over simplistic blanket statments like, Mitt Romney is bad to critisize them.

 

"You have to be cautious about criticizing your own," Mieczkowski said. "It casts a negative light about you, and that's not good." Dukakis, Kerry, and Ted Drunk Driving Kennedy are not Mitt's Own.

 

 

See how this works? See how they emply that Mitt Romney critisized the citizens of Massachusetts? They are very clever.

Of course, the Governor loves Massachusetts, but look how David ends the piece:

 

 

"But the jokes have not helped. Frank van Overbeeke, a chef at Matt Murphy's Pub in Brookline, said he had a question for the governor after hearing what he'd said about Massachusetts."

 

"Well," van Overbeeke said, "what are you doing here?"

 

See how David did that? He made it sound like Romney was attacking the common people. Mitt Romney was attacking a blue-collar chef at Matt Murphy's Pub in Brookline. But it wasn't David, who told Romney who has lived in Massachusetts most all of his life, to leave town, it was one of the people. It was Matt Murphy, who told Romney to leave Massachusetts just for saying there are a lot of liberals there.

 

These people are clever. But no matter how you twist it you can't twist the truth. Romney loves Masachusetts. Romney always talks about the things he was able to accomplish there. He practically did somersaults any time a company moved to Massachusetts. He faught hard to lower the deficit for Frank Van Overbeeke a chef at Matt Murphy's Pub in Brookline, and faught to keep from raising taxes on that Pub.

 

I would like to gather a list of all of the postive thing Romney has said about Massachusetts. Can you help?

Here are all the press releases that mention the Commonwealth

 

 

 

 

Turnpike

 

http://blog.electromneyin2008.com/index.php?cat=60

 

People won't vote for someone from Massachusetts

Reasons to disagree

  1. It is stupid to not vote for somoeone because of where they are from.

Governor Mitt Romney today ordered all Massachusetts state government agencies to decline support, if asked, for former Iranian President Mohammed Khatami’s September 10 visit to the Boston area, where he is scheduled to speak at Harvard University.

 

Rebecca Knight of FT.com just copied and pasted an amazingly un-intelligent story from David A. Fahrenthold. Both stories say exactly the same thing, and I’m sick and tired of it.

 

While Mr. Romney succeeds at portraying himself as a "solid, good guy", Prof Stewart said he loses points with professionals for the way he has treated Massachusetts "as a political whipping boy". In various out-of-town speeches, Mr Romney has portrayed the state's liberalism as a foil to cast himself as a conservative fighting blue-state waste, according to Prof Stewart.

 

"He is running against Massachusetts by playing to his conservative base at the expense of the state where he is governor," he said.

 

These stories quote a “Prof Stewart” and a “Yanek Mieczkowski”. I do not think that either of these people exist, because no professor would actually say something so stupid. I believe that Rebecca night, David A. Fehrenthold, Prof Steward, and Yanek Mieczkowski are all the same people one person trying to pull of some weird scheme, or all of them are very stupid real people.

 

All of these people need to relax, or try harder to find an issue to attack Romney on. Dwight D. Eisenhower said, “A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.”

 

Mitt Romney did not make his state the butt of his Jokes. He did not even make Massachusetts liberals the Butt of his Jokes.

 

Romney said, "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." Did he say that liberals are bad?

 

Did he say that people in Massachusetts are bad? No. He pointed out a fact, that there are not very many republicans in Massachusetts. If the main stream media keeps portraying this as an attack on Massachusetts, I am going to get angry.

 

Massachusetts is the most democratic state in the union, and pointing this out is not attacking the state, and it is not something that reflects poorly on Romney. Professionals will not think Romney is acting unprofessional by saying that there are not very many republicans in Massachusetts.

 

It doesn’t even make sense, and only the stupidest of reader would read this as objective reporting, or would come to the conclusion that Romney is in trouble for making fun of his state, simply by pointing out that as a republican he is in a minority.

 

References:

 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/25/AR2005092501146_pf.html

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15817005/

 

http://myclob.pbwiki.com/humor

 

http://myclob.pbwiki.com/Massachusetts

 

Questions for Governor Mitt Romney

 

Massachusetts

 

  1. Why did you pick Massachusetts as a place to stay after school?

Questions for Governor Mitt Romney

  1. How did you get elected governor of the state of Massachusetts?

 

Mitt Romney Was A Conservative Republican Governor In The Bluest Of The Blue States

 

 

Bill Maher says it is wrong to say that Massachusetts is a difficult place for a Republican... After all, our country was started their.

 

Great logic, dude.

 

Frog, a person on Hugh Hewitt's blog says this:

 

America was not started by today's Massachusetts (with Ted Kennedy,) today's Pennsylvania (with Bob Casey,) and today's Virginia (with Jim Webb.) They are places. Places don't have an ideology.

 

America was started by people that are long gone--people rolling over in their graves to the extent that can hear people like Bill Maher speak about America today.

 

 

CNN: Gov. Romney's Reaction To Mass. Marriage Vote

 

Vin Weber On Governor Romney's Record

 

 

Super Tuesday States for Romney

 

  1. Alabama
  2. Alaska
  3. Arizona
  4. Arkansas
  5. California
  6. Colorado
  7. Connecticut
  8. Delaware
  9. Georgia
  10. Illinois
  11. Massachusetts
  12. Minnesota
  13. Missouri
  14. Montana
  15. New Jersey
  16. New York
  17. North Dakota
  18. Oklahoma
  19. Tennessee
  20. Utah

 

States Romney has Won

  1. Michigan
  2. Nevada
  3. Wyoming

 

States Romney has came in 2nd

  1. Iowa
  2. New Hampshire

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