Point Taken
Massachusetts moonbat bashing advocated. Weld, who’s had his own moonbat moments, re Mitt, Boston Herald:
Former Gov. William F. Weld says fellow Republican Mitt Romney can withstand a hometown snub by Bay State voters in presidential balloting next week by simply dismissing the diss as little more than moonbat mania.
“I think people understand when you’re a red governor in a blue state that you have to work with the Democrats, which I think is a good thing,” said Weld, who was governor from 1991 to 1997.
Asked whether his State House successor has to win Massachusetts in his bid for the presidency, Weld, a Romney backer, said, “Not in my view.”
In fact, the former governor predicted, Arizona Sen. John McCain has a good shot in this region.
“Sen. McCain will probably run well in the Northeast; Gov. Romney will run well around the country,” said Weld in an interview with the Herald yesterday from California.
Few polls have been conducted in the Bay State. Romney led among Republicans in a State House News Service survey released Jan. 16. But unenrolled or independent voters - who outnumber Republicans and are key in the Bay State primary because they can cast ballots for either party - prefer McCain 47 to 20 percent.
The independents who helped Romney beat Democrat Shannon O’Brien in 2002 have largely turned on Romney, said Suffolk University pollster David Paleologos.
“And now, they basically have the ability to determine whether Romney will carry Massachusetts,” he said.
Weld projected the race for GOP nominee would go all the way to the Republican National Convention, scheduled for September in St. Paul, Minn.
Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said Romney would be “laughed out of the race” if he can’t carry his own backyard.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:37 am on Thursday, January 31, 2008
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