Re: Who are you voting for Obama or Romney
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YellowDog
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Date: October 15, 2012 10:43PM
Romney, because I like the way that he ran the 2002 Winter Olympics. Brought in to save the foundering Salt Lake fiasco (corruption was principally to blame, and Mitt is a Mormom Bishop, after all), Mitt was unable to deliver on his promise to boost corporate sponsorship, so he did what any big businessman does these days, and boldly begged the Bush administration for a bailout. He was successful in grabbing 2.7 Billion in taxpayer dollars. Nice Bus terminals they have there in Salt Lake. Roads and sports facilities got a real sprucing up too!
I also like his leadership in Massachusetts. Elected as a Rockefeller Republican, he soon bipartisanly began to clash with the Democrats in the state legislature, who were 83% of elected officials. He kept his promise not to raise taxes, he raised fees instead. But what else was he to do? He had to boldly balance the budget, and he was boldly running a state in which the constitution requires a balanced one.
He kept his promise to be a job creater. Unfortunately, these were not private sector jobs, which declined precipitously during his governorship. But he did manage to grow the bureaucracy.
When the roof of Boston's infamous Big Dig partially collapsed, killing a passenger in a car and wounding her husband, Mitt was Johnny on the stop, calling press conferences, and boldly screaming at the head of the independent Mass Turnpike Authority on TV. Why not. He had to. He had campaigned on finishing the massive construction project. Unfortunately, the company he boldly hired to perform the subsequent safety inspections was the same company responsible for the roof collapse, and there was some subsequent unpleasantness with the Feds.
The Big Dig was completed after Mitt left office.
And, of course, his signature achievement was Obamacare, which he boldly pressed through a willing state house.
By the end of his only term, Mitt was polling in the low 30's, so he made the bold decision to start running for President instead of seeking a second term.
Today Mitt remains so popular with the good people of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts that he can't hold his rallies in the state. He has to hold them over the border in Nashua, New Hampshire.
Yes, a record not so much to be run away from, as to be boldly and categorically denied.
Romney -- eyes wide open.