Mass Dems to McCain: Mitt Please
Best chance for Hairplugs and Charm … sorry, I meant hope and change … is McCain/Romney. Mass Dems want Mitt for veep. Boston Herald:
DENVER - Massachusetts Democrats are pleading with John McCain to pick Mitt Romney as his running mate, knocking the former Bay State governor as the best ticket to a GOP flop in November.
“No one knows Mitt Romney better than the Massachusetts delegation,” said Boston City Councilor and Democratic National Convention delegate Michael Ross. “And there is not a lot of respect for what he has to say from our delegation.”
“He was so unpopular when he left (Massachusetts). People were so disappointed,” said U.S. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Newton) said. “He did zero. He didn’t deliver on anything.”
Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons said Romney as VP is “a great pick for the Republican party. How can you be the party of the people when your two representatives would not know poverty if it sat in front of them?”
Romney crashed the Democrats’ party yesterday, ripping Barack Obama on health care, taxes, foreign policy and overall experience, saying, “He’s not ready to be president.”
“We’d tell him to go home, if we knew which home he was coming from,” said Massachusetts Democratic Party chair John Walsh, rekindling criticism of Romney’s absences from the Corner Office as governor.
“The fact that this has come down to Mitt Romney shows how short the list of vice-presidential candidates is for the Republican party,” Walsh said. “He’s not what the people are looking for.”
Frank called Romney “a one-man debate” and predicted his flip-flop reputation will come back to haunt him if he joins the McCain ticket.
“The thing about Mitt is he can have debate all by himself. He doesn’t need to come here (to Denver),” Frank told the Herald. “He can debate both sides of all the important issues just by quoting his past statements.”
It’s a little rich, coming from the people who gave us John Kerry, and the two rich guys thing is even richer, if you’re familiar with the property holdings/income of any of this week’s DNC keynoters and their candidates of recent vintage. You should see Deval Patrick’s cottage in the Berkshires. Mainly Coca-Cola corporate profits, if I’m not wrong. We’re not going to get into the gubernatorial Cadillac, State Police airlifts, the $10,000 drapes, or what’s happened to the state payroll lately, compliments of Mass taxpayers. Howie with more unkind observations re Patrick here.
Yeah, well, about Romney, at least it’s his own actual head hair, though reasonable people can dicker about whether there’s a bottle assist. But the Mass Dems have a point. Romney, now on attack dog duty in Denver, brings little to the table but Dem ammunition. The only problem with their scenario is it underscores what it takes for Hairplugs and Charm to win. A veep choice as bad as theirs. That and utter GOP disengagement on key issues and Obama’s political baggage. He’s travelling light but there’s some smelly socks in that overnight bag. I suspect Hairplugs and Charm lose this one even if they get McCain/Cheney.
Speaking of Mass Dems, that DNC lineup’s a little heavy with them, between Patrick, Kennedy, and Kerry. How come no Duke? He lost, too! Massachusetts has been leading the way with presidential losers for decades! Search that DNC website and Dukakis is tucked away at the back of a broom closet slugged “DNCC Historic Video.”
Among unhinged wingnut bloggers, apparently I’m in the minority in thinking Mitt would be a mistake. Right Wing News blogger poll on McCain veep list, in which I did not participate.
Here’s some Mass news almost everyone can like. Top Mass pols plan to cast symbolic votes for Hill tonight. Boston Herald. They must be trying to reflect the will of their people … a kind of rare event … because there’s a fair amount of Hillary backers for McCain running around Massachusetts. Saw one just the other day in my town: Hill sticker with a McCain sticker slapped over it. Patrick, the Obamist outsider who ran against Beacon Hill, still hasn’t quite managed to work his way in up there. It’s been Dems vs. Dems in Blue Mass ever since. Could be a little better this fall since he invited them all to his Berkshires manse for hotdogs this summer though.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 7:54 am on Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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August 28th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
No, you’re not the only one. I agree. But if you believe “anonymous GOP sources,” Kudlow claims that Mitt is out.
Whoever it is, I’ll be seeing him (her?) at the McCain rally Saturday in Washington, Pennsylvania.
August 28th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
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