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U.S. election: Romney held
in disdain in his home state

Toronto Star [Canada], by Mitch Potter

Original Article

Posted By:ketchuplover, 10/28/2012 2:37:31 PM

Boston — Abandoned. Used and abused. Thrown under the bus. Stomped upon for political convenience, then left behind like worthless electoral baggage. That’s what you hear when you ask Massachusetts about former governor Mitt Romney. And the contempt isn’t just palpable in the state that knows him best; it’s more like an alternate-universe episode of Cheers — where everybody knows his name. And they’re never glad he came. Yet Romney, should he win the White House on Nov. 6, won’t just get the last laugh in the land of the Kennedys. The triumph inside his election-night headquarters at

Comments:
I wonder if he wrote an article about Gore losing his home state in 2000.

  

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Reply 1 - Posted by: mitzi, 10/28/2012 2:48:31 PM     (No. 8969761)

I guess that could be considered a good thing. Remember, MA is the home of the Kennedys, Warren, Barney Frank, John Kerry and Geoerge Dukakis.

Distain for Romney is a plus.


Reply 2 - Posted by: Photoonist, 10/28/2012 2:52:02 PM     (No. 8969774)

Mitch Potter is one of the resident leftist loudmouths at the TorStar. If (when) 0bama loses he will write a whining column praising him and wondering "what's wrong with the US?"


   

 

  


 
Reply 3 - Posted by: Susannah, 10/28/2012 2:56:09 PM     (No. 8969784)

This is laughable. Romney has lived virtually all his adult life in Massachusetts. And no, he wasn't an absentee governor.

Now if you want to talk about carpetbaggers, Deval Patrick fits the bill perfectly.


Reply 4 - Posted by: pursuitoftruth, 10/28/2012 2:56:35 PM     (No. 8969786)

And this matters, why?


Reply 5 - Posted by: dwillyc, 10/28/2012 3:00:25 PM     (No. 8969795)

The Cape Cod Times endorsed Romney today. It endorsed Obama 4 years ago. I don't call that disdain.


Reply 6 - Posted by: Charactercounts, 10/28/2012 3:03:27 PM     (No. 8969806)

#4, it matters so they can affect what the article calls "low information voters."

Romney will be a far better president than Obama has been. At least it's unlikely Romney would watch Americans die on-screen while he orders that no one help them--and then fires the two military commanders who tried.


Reply 7 - Posted by: wendybird, 10/28/2012 3:06:40 PM     (No. 8969818)

People in Mass. can only focus on one thing at a time, and presently it is the election of Elizabeth Warren, Indian Maiden.


   

 

  


 
Reply 8 - Posted by: Former lurker, 10/28/2012 3:11:06 PM     (No. 8969832)

And yet, when deep blue Massachusetts got in serious financial trouble they turned to a Republican to fix things. Methinks they are going to do it again after the Patrick disaster.


Reply 9 - Posted by: saraguay, 10/28/2012 3:14:09 PM     (No. 8969842)

yes, it's becoming sickenly more likely that warren is going to win in mass. what a terrible shame but it's what the lock-step voters here in mass. want: more of the same liberal, lefty policies and politics. it's all gone swimmingly for the country, hasn't it?


Reply 10 - Posted by: veritas, 10/28/2012 3:21:11 PM     (No. 8969858)

Why did you leave out that Romney loves to drown puppies, Mitch? Why? Don't puppies count?

Or that he sends operatives into WalMarts to unplug the electric shopping carts at night, so the disabled can't save money when they want to shop?

FTA: Romney... won’t just get the last laugh in the land of the Kennedys.

Yeah. Kennedys. The [cue Celestial Choir -- "Ahhhhh!"]Kennedys. Whose worship in Massachusetts is the state's unassailable demonstration of political acumen. Right, Mary Jo?

FTA: Ruth Balser... said the home-state resentment metastasized into something far more bitter

Mitch, you moron, that is not what "metastasized" means. It's not a synonym for morphed. Please don't let that moronic misuse become the next "reticent" for reluctant, or "gender" for sex, or "impact" for affect. When's the last time you heard someone even use "affect"?

But Mitch, let me ask -- doesn't it matter that the Democrat nominee isn't legally qualified to hold the office he usurped for the last four years? And what about his many other acts contemptuous of the Constitution? Any of that matter to ya, Mitchie-boy?


Reply 11 - Posted by: Malia2012, 10/28/2012 3:33:08 PM     (No. 8969878)

Hey Mitch, you sure your first name doesn't start with a B? BTW, If the kool-aid-drinking-sycophantic-idiot-potter REALLY wants to check out "abandoned, used and abused" he need look no further than the "African-American" voters who are STILL looking for obama's "stash". And let's not forget the leftists still waiting for the "waters to part and the earth to begin to heal"...Jerk!


Reply 12 - Posted by: snakeoil, 10/28/2012 4:00:52 PM     (No. 8969938)

Is ØDumbø held in disdain in Indonesia, Kenya, and Poakestand?


   

 



 
Reply 13 - Posted by: JAN, 10/28/2012 4:07:57 PM     (No. 8969951)

The people in MA would much rather have the swimmer as their leader.

Any Kennedy at all is a deity to them, it would seem.


Reply 14 - Posted by: pgvoisin, 10/28/2012 4:19:01 PM     (No. 8969968)

They still resent Romney for cleaning up the Progressive mess!

Besides, we need Romney in Washington now.
Let Massachusetts go back to the "failed policies" of the Progressive past!


Reply 15 - Posted by: tonyl, 10/28/2012 5:05:07 PM     (No. 8970049)

Don't count Mitt out for MA.


Reply 16 - Posted by: lilo, 10/28/2012 5:33:21 PM     (No. 8970102)

So Massachusetts holds Romney in disdain. Makes it a plus for me. I'd be more scared if the State of Massachusetts, home of the Swimmer and Fauxcahontas liked him.


Reply 17 - Posted by: Mai Bad, 10/28/2012 6:06:28 PM     (No. 8970153)

Yo...yo...Mitch....Shut the Canuck Up!


   

 

  


 
Reply 18 - Posted by: PoliticalJunky, 10/28/2012 7:56:46 PM     (No. 8970335)

I was born there. A childhood friend of mine, now deceased, was a liberal like most who have not moved out. We had a phone conversation once where she told me "We can't wait to get rid of him." I explained to her that he was getting rid of their debt without raising taxes and that he was serving without pay. Cut no ice with her.


Reply 19 - Posted by: Susannah, 10/28/2012 8:03:08 PM     (No. 8970347)

Do we have such a thing as a "PIGS FLY ALERT"? If so, we need one. There are Romney for President signs in Harvard Square. Yes. You read that right. Harvard Square. This is amazing. in my entire life, I've never seen a sign for any Republican in Harvard Square and the surrounding (very rich) neighborhood.

The Worcester Telegram and Gazette, owned by the NY Times, endorsed Romney today.

I don't think Romney has any chance of winning Mass., but the fact that there are sings for him in and around Harvard Square is drop-dead astonishing.


Reply 20 - Posted by: lostinmassachusetts, 10/28/2012 8:52:53 PM     (No. 8970403)

I believe the only people in Massachusetts who hold Romney in disdain are the die-hard Democrat liberals who didn't vote for him when he ran for governor. Republicans and independents (except those of the stealth Democrat stripe) will tell you that he was a good governor. And I believe those folks will vote for him for president. This may prove to be a Massachusetts November surprise.


Reply 21 - Posted by: richdet, 10/29/2012 9:12:35 AM     (No. 8971098)

#20, if you're amazed, imagine how Lieawatha Warren feels. Her Victorian mansion is about a 5-minute drive from Harvard Square. That sort of thing just isn't supposed to happen in Lizzie's Reservation -- it has a Final Things feel to it.

If it weren't for the storm, I am sure her flying monkeys would have taken down the Romney signs by now. In the meantime the local Moonbats must be wavering between consternation and alarm.



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