Mitt Romney

When people I meet on our travels learn I'm from Massachusetts, they often ask what Mitt Romney was like when he was governor.  My first response is to tell them that he only served two years of his four year term.  After two years he mentally checked out and began his interminable run for President.

Romney faced the usual dilemma of a Republican governor in Massachusetts, a legislature that is aound 95% Democrat.  This makes a Republican governor pretty much a figurehead.  The real power lies in the house speakership.  Thus the famous Mass. healthcare law involved Romney merely rubber stamping the legislature's fomulation.  Of course, as Romney is wont to do, when it was to his advantage, he was more than happy to take credit for it.  And, when it was to his advantage, he could disavow its premises, saying that what was right for Massachusetts was not right for the rest of the country.

Romney talks out of both sides of his mouth so much that after a while you don't know who is the ventriloquist and who is the dummy.  He sold whatever principles he has to the Tea Party and Grover Norquist in order to gain the nomination.  Now in true Etch-a Sketch fashion, he turns his back on them to win the general election.  How can one have any respect for someone like that?  Would you want this guy in a foxhole next to you?