I really friggin hate Mitt Romney: Snarky on Kerry, again

[TayTay]

From Sunday Boston Globe Cot 9th, 2005
By Nina Easton

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/10/09/hes_just_wild_about_harriet_miers/?page=1

The Bay State's third senator

A Capitol Hill struggle over energy assistance to low-income families has pitted the Bay State's junior senator against its governor, both of whom have at least one eye on the Oval Office.

When Senate Republican leaders last week scuttled a plan to fund the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program -- known as LIHEAP -- through a defense bill, Senator John F. Kerry accused the GOP of leaving American families ''out in the cold."

Governor Mitt Romney arrived in Washington the day after the vote, to lobby a key senator for LIHEAP funding, prompting one Democratic aide to call him ''the Michael Brown of LIHEAP, a little late to the party."

But the governor's spokesman, Eric Fehrnstrom, said Romney is working closely with GOP leaders to secure funding through other legislation.

And Fehrnstrom couldn't resist throwing the barbs back. ''You get more with honey than vinegar," he said in a less-than-veiled reference to Kerry. ''It's times like this that Mitt Romney acts as the third senator from Massachusetts."

While in town, the state's third senator squeezed in an appearance at the 50th anniversary bash for National Review, the conservative magazine.

Third Senator my fat ass. I expect a 'Senator' from Massachusetts to actually like and respect the state he comes from and to hold it's people in high enough regard to not go around the country bad-mouthing them. Romney is a liar, a faker and a powerless shell of a Governor. He can't pass gas without the MA legislature's approval and he knows it. He is also way down in the polls and 56% of MA residents say it's time for a change.

What an asshole, trying to jump and do his 'Underdog' impression. "Here I am to save the day." Hey, Underdog, maybe you should go around CapHill and tell the asshole bastards who voted against allowing this bill to go on the Defense Appropriations Act to lighten up and let some real human beings in pain get some relief this winter. Showing up a day late and dollar short. Then pretending that your all-powerful self and your whopping three years in public office can somehow do what Sens. Kerry & Kennedy can't. What a friggin prick. I really, really hate this guy. I wish he would just resign and go away and bother some other state and it's people. (Utah? Michigan? California? Anywhere but here. We have suffered enough.)

A Senator? He's not fit to fetch coffee for the night shift cleaning crew at the State House and he fancies himself a Senator? Maybe he ought to hang out with Teddy and John for awhile. They can show him what an actual Senator does, and that doesn't include going to other states and making jokes about how out of touch you are with your own friggin voters. He can bite not just me, but the ass end of a rotting pig for all I care. Third Senator. Rot in hell you lying bastard.

Romney parody ad: I love this: http://www.massdems.org/Features/ads/movie6.html

[jillan]

1. Another fine example of the differences between the pigs and the dems.

And another example of trickle down economics.
The rich get richer off of their investments in the power companies,
and everyone else can't afford it.

[Mass]

2. Third Senator? when was the last time he did something for MA.

There is one thing he could do. Announce that he is not running again.

[TayTay]

3. Honestly, he thinks he's Underdog

He couldn't find his own ass with both hands and a flashlight. I really, really dislike that man. I hope he resigns and then that Barbie Doll Lt. Gov leaves as well. Yeesh!

[whometense]

4. He's a f***ing pig.

I'll go you one better - I hate him. I really do. He's every bit as disingenuous and self-serving as Bush is.

[rox63]

5. Mittens can't leave soon enough for me

WTF were Massholes thinking when they elected this lying sack of sh*t?

Fortunately, I don't think he has a chance of being elected president. And he certainly won't be reelected governor if her runs.

[karynnj]

6. This article is just weird

It seemed Kerry had a fair amount of bi-partisan support and was just blocked from putting it on the defense bill by a procedural vote. Won't he have a chance to add it after recess? Kerry's comment about the Republican leaders came after the vote, so it didn't affect it's passage and it is fair.

It would seem they should wait until Romney's efforts bear fruits before they imply he's doing Kerry's and Kennedy's job. (Even then, why is the Globe pretending that the Republicans would give Kerry what they would give Romney. It has nothing to do with Romney's "sweetness", rather the REPUBLICAN partisanship that passed Kerry's legislation only when he took his name off it.)

Does the Globe like Romney?

[TayTay]

7. The Globe sort of likes Romney

He gets a lot more press because he is the Gov and his actions affect a lot more locally. They are not approving what he did, just noting that it had a high 'bitch' factor here. That was inapprpriate grandstanding on Romney's part.

[karynnj]

8. After re-reading, I see what you mean

I misread it as critising both Kerry and Romney, with the italics used for "after", it's clear he was grandstanding.

If Kerry does get this passed via another avenue, does this suggest that Romney is likely to take credit because of his lobbying - especially if the Republicans again push Kerry to take his name off it.

[beachmom]

9. Just curious, how did Romney get elected in the first place?

Was he more moderate a few years ago? Here's the thing. I wonder if he had just stayed a governor, and not been trying for the oval office, if he wouldn't have been such an ass. It's just when I think of many of the moderate Republicans who eventually pissed us all off, it was when they started catering to the national party. There's a Republican gov. in Conn., but she has no national ambitions, and signed the first legislated gay civil union law in the country. And I have to say, that when I blame the national party (GOP), I'm really blaming the South and the West, which are WAY more conservative than other parts of the country. Remember, Christine Todd Whitman "It's My Party, too". Just wondering if Republicans left out in the cold, are going to rebel soon, and Romney's gamble of moving to the right will blow up in his face. Dare we dream a move to the center?

[TayTay]

10. Romney campaigned as a moderate

He was pro-choice and was a moderate on the all important social issues. He has moved considerably to the right since his election. He is courting national money and RW voters in his quest to become a big national player. (I sometimes wonder if he is really campaigning for the Rethug nomination. He has only a very slight chance of getting this. I sometimes think he is running for a cabinet job in some future Admin.)

Mass dems hold their gubernatorial primary in Sept. MA primary fights are all-out warfare and are brutal death matches. There is not enough time to heal the wounds after the primary. The general election is held just 8 weeks after the primary and a lot of Dems who worked for the primary loser are still miffed about what the winner did. Sigh! I did read that Kerry and other MA Dems would like to move the primary back to May or June so that the party has time to pull together before the general election and fundraise and all. That would make sense, so we shall see how long it is before it happens. Big sigh!

There are forces at work in MA to make next years race less exciting and to increase the chances that a strong primary winner will emerge and be fully funded. There is a lot of national pressure on MA Dems to behave themselves and not kill each other to the detriment of the Party and it's chances of winning the Corner Office in '06. I think there will be a lot of resources put into that. I think both MA Sens will be involved in running with the primary winner and in trying to boost them up. It's a very important race.

[rox63]

12. I don't think he was ever really a moderate

I think Mittens was lying about his supposed "moderate" views all along, and is now showing his true, right-wing colors. I really wish he'd stayed in Utah after the Olympics.

[karynnj]

11. Be wary of Whitman

She is dead in the water in NJ. At the beginning of her governorship, she enjoyed good press here and nationally. She gave the Republican rebuttal to an early Clinton SOTU speech. She was perceived as moderate, articulate and attractive.

Before she left for the Bush administration, she was already "done" in NJ - largely for weird reasons. One that makes sense only in NJ is that she made the car inspection process incredibly painful by bringing in private contracters (with Republican ties). She also avoided most of the property taxes on her estate (she is VERY old money) by claiming it was "a farm".

But the most damaging was that she went out with state troopers and had a photo taken frisking a black teen boy who was stopped by the police. The boy did have a record, but he was frisked first by the police and was clean - this was just a photo op. The picture caused an uproar in NJ.

Bush wanted her because of her good record on the environment, but then over rode her views on every decision and she stayed. She used her credibility to tell New Yorkers and NJ commuters that the air was safe in Manhattan at a point when they had no reason to think so. No one could have changed Bush, but she should have quit to retain credibility. Even after she left, she gave Bush another dog - both Barney and the new dog were Whitman presents raised at her "farm" in NJ.

For these reasons, it is unlikely that she could win a statewide election in NJ.

[LittleClarkie]

13. No no, that's Mighty Mouse

I know because that's what my dad called me when I was really small (and I do mean really small-- I only looked like I was 6 months when I was a year old).

Mighty Mouse = "Here I come to save the day"
Underdog = "Never fear, Underdog is here!"

:D

[TayTay]

15. Okay, Mighty Mouse then.

I like that better anyway. Either way, Mitt just sucks. What an asshole. Trying to sweep in and save the LIHEAP and discredit Kerry at the same time. Third Senator my ass. I'd move. (Maybe IL will have me and I can vote for Sen. Sweetie and Obama. If I ever had to switch Sens, I go for them. Then WEL gets mine.)

(I'm joking Whome.)

[whometense]

17. I know.

Third senator my ass.

Meanwhile, it would be nice if we had ONE governor.

[Mass]

14. from the BG - cartoon

[LittleClarkie]

16. The drew him disturbingly

like folks draw Kerry.

He doesn't have a long face.

[TayTay]

18. Dear Gawd woman, what are you saying?

The cartoon part on Kerry's cartoon face is on the other side. And Kerry has way, way better hair than Mitt. (Mitt's looks like he stole it from a whisk broom. Kerry's is elegant and distinguished.)

[LittleClarkie]

19. Mittens has televangelist hair

I demand an apology to the whisk brooms.

[TayTay]

20. True, true. He does have Big Hair.

Whisk broom apologies given.

Sometimes I fear that Romney is the price I have to pay for having good Senators. Sigh! (Cosmic scales and all. Massachusetts can have highly competent Sens, but has to endure a very bad Gov or else the socmis scales will be all off. Sigh!)

[rox63]

21. One more year until we are rid of Mittens

So cut that talk about moving. I hope Massholes have learned their lessons, and will stop electing rethug governors.

[TayTay]

22. Yes Ma'am. I will stay put. I am needed to keep MA blue!

Okay, I am exaggerating a little bit. (I am needed to keep the Merrimack Valley blue, sort of.)

And you know I can't move. Nobody else in the rest of the country would understand a damn word I am saying. I'd spend the rest of my life responding to, "What'd you say?"

[Mass]

23. Another sign that Mitt is not running.

While parts of his state are flooded, he is still campaigning in NC. (NH was really badly touched this week-end with a lot of rural areas roads collapsing and a lot of flooding as well, but at least, their governor is here taking care of that).

http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2005/10/10/ap/headlines/d8d5no903.txt

[karynnj]

24. Couldn't this backfire even if he goes for the Presidency

Not to overstate the magnitude, but in the wake of Bush not being personally involved in the aftermath of Katrina, couldn't this be played the same way.

[Mass]

25. I think he decided he needed to win the primary first.

Why Western Mass was badly flooded by MA standards, there was no casualties, so I doubt this would have a large impact in a national election.

[TayTay]

26. Is Kerry coming home, does anyone know?

NH was badly hurt in the flooding and will ask for (and probably get) Disaster Funding. But, It would be nice to have Kerry survey the damage in the Wetern part of the STate. All jokes aside, Eastern Ma gets all the local attention and Western MA is sometimes treated like a foreign area. (My sister-in-law is from Springfield. She said they feel neglected sometimes. Sigh!)

[Mass]

27. I was wondering the same thing about Kerry going there.

It is true that people over there feel neglected. My in-laws are from Longmeadow and they really feel like if all the attention and money was going to Greater Boston. (and they are in a nice community - Springfield probably feels very alone sometimes with all the problems they have with both poverty and crime).

[TayTay]

28. Plus, like in the case of the Red Tide request for funds

Massachusetts is unlikely to get anything in the way of Emergency Relief. The Rethugs in power hate us and are still punishing us for being 'liberal' and for producing good Dems like Kerry and Kennedy.

But it would be nice to see Kennedy & Kerry in Western MA. Plus, another Ma family lost a child to that horrible war in Iraq. I like it when elected people show some respect and show up at the funerals. They should. They absolutely should (if the family wants it.)

[whometense]

29. Best Mittens take-down of the day

http://chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com/2005/10/well-heeled-bishop-warns-of-theocracy.html">Chimes at Midnight:

"Well Heeled Bishop Warns of Theocracy Danger"
or so the Boston Globe's headline ought to read...
I'm gonna miss Romney (in my own fashion)when he finally goes over the falls in that stave barrel marked "Potomac or Bust"...because as craven, blustery, opportunistic and plain dumb as he has been the man has also been a source of solid hilarity.
Naught but guffaws should greet the spectacle of a Mormon Bishop, crawling off his plane in Raleigh N.C. squawking, flapping his arms and baring his incisors trying to gin up some terror over "theocracy".
This is the same sworn enemy of "theocracy" and a candidate for President who would happily kiss James Dobson's boney ass in the display window of Macy's all in return for the merest pat on the head.
Well, consistency has never been Willard's strong suit but when it comes to being a bumpious suck up and a drama queen, the Governor sadly has no equals.
- posted by John @ 6:40 AM

[TayTay]

30. That is good.

and ever so true!