The Real Mitt Romney

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Originally Posted by BigV

The real Mitt Romney, wait, the political noise about the real Mitt Romney trumpets his "bipartisan effectiveness". He crows about his ability to get things done in MA as a Republican Governor of a state with a legislature with a Democratic majority. Ok, but... the facts indicate that in four years as Governor, Romney issued 800 vetoes. How is this working across the aisle? As you know, when the executive vetoes a bill, it is returned to the legislature to be upheld or overridden. Interestingly, over 700 of those vetoes were overturned.

Romney's transition from business executive where he issued orders and could expect and enforce compliance to government executive where the office holder needs to cooperate with the other branches of government was clearly unsuccessful.

Romney was unhappy with his relationship with the legislature and MA was unhappy with him. His poll numbers for unfavorability were 69%. This was likely a major contributing factor to his absence from the state for most of the last year of his term as governor. Plotting his course to the Presidency, no doubt.

@DanaC: good discussion on UK's carrier loss. Yes, UK is down to zero carriers, atm. One is being built, but won't be in service for a couple more years. Yes, I do mean REAL carriers.

The chart on Carriers is out of date.

I didn't say that Obama said a ship in the Pacific could handle a problem in the Atlantic or the Med. What I was trying to say, is that following Obama's logic, a ship in one place, would have to be able to handle a problem, that was in another place entirely. Ships can project their power, but the world is a big place, and our Navy has a lot of allies to defend, and lots of problems.

Just last week, we had the Miramar Air Show in San Diego. This week a bunch of the fighters that were at Miramar, have been transferred to a "Mid East country". These are Marine airmen, and they work on Navy carriers. My point is, these guys, and our carriers, are kept busy, working.

It's always disappointing when a good conservative governor is elected, but the legislature for the state is solidly liberal. MA has paid handsomely for being liberal. They see that now, but it's hard to take back a gov't service, after the people have become used to having it.
Now they have to pay for that misstep.

Romney can work with liberals, but no conservative can work with a liberal legislature which is strongly polarized and vote straight liberal on every vote, regardless of it's worth. We've seen that all too often at the federal level, haven't we? Hopefully, we'll get a good block of conservatives in the House and Senate, and we can get ourselves back on track.

The hot air is all out of the liberal's balloon, and all we'd get from another four years of Obama and the liberals, is the last "pffffff", as the balloon sputtered out. He has no PLAN, and no PROGRAM to ignite any spark of change. Same O Same O.

The weird thing is, even though his plans haven't worked, and he has nothing new to offer us, some people still support him. Obama doesn't even CLAIM he has anything new!

Weird.

You know insanity is doing the same thing that didn't work before, over and over, and expecting a different outcome, right?

Yeah.

That's what I don't understand. Obama's policies are NOT working, so why keep supporting them, and him?

It's weird. Just weird.