Romney Bolts Massachusetts....Again
Below is the statement of MDP Chairman Phil Johnston on Mitt Romney's latest excursion.
We’ve become used to Mitt Romney being in Des Moines, Savannah, Miami, New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, but Baghdad? This is getting ridiculous. The presidential election isn’t for two years but Mitt Romney apparently thinks he’s already a major foreign policy expert.
Kerry Healey needs to tell her boss that there remains serious work to do in the waning months of the Romney-Healey administration: implementation of major health care legislation, dealing with last week’s devastating floods on the North Shore, and making housing more affordable are just a few of the issues that need immediate attention.
This governor has become a major embarrassment to our state. In a trip which is obviously designed to further his own political ambitions, he uses the cynical pretext of visiting Massachusetts troops. He fools no one by this lame explanation. His real purpose is to add foreign policy luster to his résumé.
Romney, like Lieutenant Governor Healey, supports the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld position in Iraq, which is costing the lives of many Massachusetts young people and the devastation of our national and local economy.
I thought I had seen everything from this man but apparently his ambition knows no limit.
posted by Shawn Hartman @ 4:06 AM
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6 Comments:
Let me get this straight. The Mass Dems support the troops by not visiting the troops, suggesting others do not visit the troops, and questioning the motives of those that do visit the troops? I'm sure our soldiers in Iraq appreciate your *ahem* *cough* overwhelming *cough* *cough* support.
To only see political motives in the visit to Iraq is disgusting. I am sure that the troops did not even remotely view his visit as pandering for votes. This Democratic response is the height of adolescent insanity. Grow up!
29 other Governors managed to get to Iraq without their motives being questioned. Surely the Romney record is pathetic enough that the Democratic party can do without this kind of witless, and gutless politicking during Memorial Day weekend.
Yes - I am a Democrat, a real worker in the trenches - and I am hoping for a Democratic Governor at long last. But there are times I question the wisdom of the leaders of this party and wonder why I bother when they do stupid things like this. Have you lost your good taste and sense meter or something?
While I share your view of Romney, the statement made you rather vulnerable to the patriotic "arguement".
For those of you who challenged her position on why Romney went.....COME ON!!! We all know he went there for his own agenda! His whole time in office has been about his road to the presidency!!
As a democratic party, lets get smart, stop giving them ammo and grab the opportunity!! The republican party is constantly making moronic decisions that will cost us dearly in foreign relations and domestic economics for decades!! Don't LET THEM get away with it!!
By all means - let's go with a losing argument and question why Romney went to Iraq, when he has all the cover he needs on why he went.
Rather than go with the loser argument, why not fixate on the slashing of local aid, and the highest property tax burden since the passage of Prop 2 1/2?
Go with what the voters get! Otherwise - we will lose in November.
Poor choice of words, attacking Romney for visiting the troops. If this disdain is how the Democratic Party views the people fighting for our national interests, no wonder it continues to lose elections.
Romney won because the people of Massachusetts are tired of a run-away bureaucracy and sky-high taxation. You can criticize how he did or did not approach that, but do not criticize anything that would support our soldiers abroad. It is important that they know that our lawmakers and citizens are behind them 100%. That kind of argument will only lose you the governor's election, along with other national elections.
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