Remarkably
Unremarkable
 During
the Republican presidential primaries Rick Santorum
posited that Mitt Romney was "uniquely unqualified"
to be president.
Here's what he meant.
Mitt
Romney has held exactly one public office, that of
Governor of Massachusetts. He snuck in during the furor
that followed the 9-11 attacks, at a time when the
media completely forgot that it was a Republican
administration that missed all the clues leading up
to the attacks
on the Twin Towers. And that all criticism of the Bus
administration, especially from rotten old Democrats,
was treasonous.
I remember. I was there.
As a result, the 2002 mid-terms were disastrous
for Democrats (The opposition party historically gains
seats in the mid-terms). Riding the coattails
of 9-11 Romney snuck into office by only a few percentage
points after spending
$6
million
dollars
of his own money on his campaign.
Once elected he then began to flip on almost every
position he campaigned on, carefully aligning himself
for a run for the
presidency
as
a conservative Republican in 2008. By the end of his
single term in office he was so unpopular with the
state legislature that all 250 of Governor Romney's
vetoes
in his last year as governor were overridden.
It was embarrassing.
Although he did not seek reelection on the premise
that he was entering the presidential race, polls showed
he would have lost by double digits in Massachusetts
had he run for governor again.
In 2006 a Democrat,
Deval
Patrick, won the Massachusetts governorship in
a landslide. He was, like Barack Obama, a graduate
of Harvard and the Harvard Law School.
He was also, like Barack Obama, a black
man.
TL;DR: Romney won the governorship
as a fluke, was ridiculed by his congress, refuses
to even mention
his signature healthcare initiative, flip-flopped
on every major position, was succeeded by a black Harvard
graduate, spent his entire business life screwing-over
the working man. By every measure he
is uniquely unqualified to be president.
=Lefty=
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Notes, Notes, and More Notes.
Politics: Donald Trump is publicly
supporting Mitt Romney for president, even though last
year he described Romney's business
experience thusly: “He’d
buy companies, he’d close companies, he’d
get rid of jobs.”
99%: Canada knows what solidarity looks
like.
Science: Is this the end of the bland
supermarket tomato? And I don't mean the frumpy checkpout
girl.
Heresy: Anyone need some secular
bumper stickers?
Humor: "Today Mitt Romney
met with a group of wealthy Latino business owners.
Or as Romney calls them,
'the Juan percent.'" – Jimmy Fallon
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 5-28-2012: The
House will be back in session on Tuesday.
For the full 2001-2012 list of Republican sloth please
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