I came across this online, and I would have to agree, so here it is for your reading pleasure and opinion........ Fire away!
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As the old Groucho Marx joke goes, "hey, he has principles, and if you don’t like them, he has others". What are we up to now, Romney v4.0 or something?

He does give a passable answer — finally — on the Romneycare question, I’ll admit:

Our approach was a state plan intended to address problems that were in many ways unique to Massachusetts. What we did was what the Constitution intended for states to do—we were one of the laboratories of democracy.

Our experiment wasn’t perfect—some things worked, some didn’t, and some things I’d change. One thing I would never do is to usurp the constitutional power of states with a one-size-fits-all federal takeover.

I would repeal Obamacare, if I were ever in a position to do so. My experience has taught me that states are where healthcare programs for the uninsured should be crafted, just as the Constitution provides. Obamacare is bad law, bad policy, and it is bad for America’s families.

The federal government isn’t the answer for running healthcare any more than it’s the answer for running Amtrak or the Post Office. An economy run by the federal government doesn’t work for Europe and it won’t work here.



Fair enough; if Massachusetts wants to sink into the Big Government morass, any state’s rights advocate worth his salt would be willing to grant them the privilege, provided they don’t come crawling to the rest of us for a bailout when their socialist experiment ends up like every other one in history has. But somebody should maybe tell ol’ Mittens that the Post Office is one of the very few of the current eleventy million or so federal functions actually authorized by the Constitution. I realize he’s been way too busy desperately trying to become President since he was about fourteen or so to read that annoying, outdated document and all, but still.

Romney is every bit as much of a self-serving political hack as anyone ever has been; like Al Gore, he’d crawl down Main Street pushing a fresh, steaming turd with his nose at high noon if he thought it’d get him into the Oval Office. Anybody remember Hillary breaking into a good-ol’-boy cracker drawl while speaking to a Selma, Alabama audience? Remember Ogabe deploying an old-school black preacher cadence — “we gonna stand up for our DIG-nitay” — ironically enough, also in Selma? This is exactly the same sort of thing; the only difference being, there are people out there who mocked Hillary and Ogabe for their shameless pandering, and who will turn right around and make excuses for Mitt’s — because he’s a Republican, they think he can win, and to them, that’s all that matters.

Trouble is, when an oleaginous hack like Romney wins, that’s as far as it goes: Romney wins. None of the rest of us do. Because it’s all about him and his personal ambition, and not one thing more.

He’d happily break out into a Southern drawl thicker than mine and walk around with a coon dog and a shotgun slung over his shoulder, wearing Carhartt cammies and an Elmer Fudd hat, to secure the all-important redneck-caricature vote. He’s as greasy as they make ‘em. He’s the walking, talking, dishonest definition of politics as usual; he’s nothing like a solution to anything, being part of the problem instead.

We’ve seen this phony act way too many times already. Anybody stupid or naive enough to buy it this time around deserves what they’ll get.

http://political-heat.blogspot.com/2011/08/some-facts-on-mitt-romney.html

GOP frontrunner's history as governor clues us in to the type of leader he may be....

Here are some thoughts on presidential contender Mitt Romney. The former Massachusetts governor is the current front-runner for the nomination from the GOP, and as such the most likely to face Obama in the general election next year. The following points are meant to diffuse any positive points Romney has made for himself while serving as governor. Much more has been said about Romney, but what follows is just a general synopsis of his ability to lead -- or rather, his ability to have done very little at all, except benefit from dumb luck, while he was governor.

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During Romney’s tenure as governor, Massachusetts ranked third-lowest in job creation. Manufacturing jobs were a big loss for the state, declining by 14 percent between 2002 and 2006, more than double the national average.

Unemployment went down in Massachusetts, but experts believe this was largely because so many people left the state in the face of its declining economy. Only one other state, Louisiana, had a larger “out-migration” than Massachusetts during the time Romney was governor. More than 3.5 percent of the state’s population left between 2002 and 2006 according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Housing prices also went up during Romney’s tenure. By 2005, Massachusetts saw its housing prices increase by 95 percent (the national average was 40 percent).

Source:
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/07/29/romneys_economic_record/
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Romney touts having turned around a $3 billion deficit in his state while governor. But that deficit was more than halved by an unexpected gain in capital gains taxes. In other words, half the deficit that Romney “fixed” was due to absolutely no action on his part -- and also due to an unpopular form of taxation from Republicans, which means it’d be unlikely that Romney could utilize it if he became president. The other half was by closing corporate tax loopholes, essentially raising taxes on corporations, a move that Romney has indicated he wouldn’t do as president also.

And while Massachusetts saw a few gains in its economy during Romney’s tenure, the improvements when compared to the rest of the country were minimal. For instance, the measure of real output of goods and services grew by 9 percent between 2002 and 2006 -- but in the nation as a whole, it grew by 13 percent. The average wage of workers, too, only grew by $1 per weekly paycheck while Romney was governor.

Source:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/01/20/us-usa-politics-romney-record-idUSN2033704120080120
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Unemployment in Massachusetts mirrored that of the national average during Romney’s tenure, being off about half a percentage point or less in either direction at any given point. This indicates that Romney’s policies didn’t improve (nor hinder really) the unemployment rate in his state. However, we must remember: more than three percent of the state’s population left Massachusetts while Romney was governor in direct response to the economic climate at that time. Had they stayed in the state, there’s no doubt that the unemployment rate would have been higher, perhaps significantly so, than that of the national average.

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There are plenty of more examples why Mitt Romney shouldn't be president. But these short synopses offer limited proof of why anything the candidate may tout during his tenure as governor weren't as great as he lets on. Romney was a governor, a former executive office holder -- but not exactly a stellar one.

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I lived in Mass, under Romney. He turned our town into a ghost town (as well as many others). He drove out business and ruined whole towns economies. Housing prices in my area have taken a hit of over 50% devaluation, and there is no recourse for most in the areas hardest hit than to walk away from their mortgages.

Most remaining in border towns commute up to 3 hours a day to hold ANY job and try to keep their homes. The decline continues today!

People can't sell their homes because their are no jobs in the areas around them. Most have fled the state for ANYTHING better, abandoning their homes.

Mitt is not a good choice ... and doesn't offer much change, but I would vote for him against Obama.

If the Reps could field a good candidate, Obama wouldn't have a chance. Romney is Obama's best hope at the moment.

New poll.The poll showed Obama would finish just behind Romney if the November2012 presidential election were held today,with the former Massachusetts governor at 44 percent and Obamaat 43 percent among registered voters.
It was the first Reuters/Ipsos poll to show Romney ahead, although his slim lead is within the survey's margin of error and technically a dead heat.
Obama led Romney by 6 percentage points when the same question was asked in a poll in September.

GOP set to embrace Mitt Romney as candidate who can beat Barack Obama.

CEOs prefer Mitt Romney as the GOP’s presidential candidate next November, according to an exclusive poll from ChiefExecutive.net.!!!

Trust me on this..... Having lived in the Romney state, under his leadership, I'd sooner vote for Daffy Duck!

MEDIA ADVISORY: FRIDAY: Citizens to Expose the ‘Real Romney Record’ on Jobs: Mass Layoffs, Huge Personal PayoffsPosted by MassUniting on October 20, 2011 For Friday, October 21, 2011 @ 12:00PM

Contact: Nora Boedecker, (617) 702-2880

FRIDAY: Citizens to Expose the ‘Real Romney Record’ on Jobs: Mass Layoffs, Huge Personal Payoffs

Unemployed workers and community leaders to gather at Bain Capital, will educate public on Romney’s alarming history of killing jobs for personal profit

BOSTON, MA – Frustrated with Mitt Romney’s frequent and false claims of success in job creation, unemployed workers and community leaders will gather Friday at noon to expose the real Romney record on jobs and the economy. The public education campaign will launch with a protest and mass leafleting drive outside the Boston headquarters of Bain Capital – the site of many of Romney’s most heinous job-killing endeavors.

“Every day we hear Mitt Romney talk about his success in business, but his record shows he’s done nothing but kill jobs for profit,” said Olivé Hendricks, an unemployed construction worker from Dorchester. “We need to make sure our friends and neighbors understand how terrible Mitt Romney would be for jobs in Massachusetts.”

Romney has made private sector experience a central pillar of his campaign for president, often referencing alleged success over 25 years in business. His actual record, however, tells an entirely different story – one of plant closures, bankruptcies, and mass layoffs. Romney carried that record of failure into his term as Massachusetts Governor, where the commonwealth consistently ranked near the bottom in job growth under his watch. Yet Romney has managed to amass a huge personal fortune as a result of his job-killing endeavors, with an estimated wealth of $250 million.