Question for Massachusetts folks

I'm sure this has been asked before but, How in the world did Romney become governer in such a deep blue state? I'm supposing the Mitt we see now is not the Mitt you had?

Romney is no fluke. He was preceded by three GOP governors.

Several factors played into Mitt's hands:

o Massachusetts, because it is a very Democratic-leaning place,
has often balanced their monolithically-Democratic legislature
with a Republican Governor. Frank Sargeant, Bill Weld, Paul
Cellucci, and then acting-governess Jane Swift. And Ed King
was a very conservative Democrat. Mike Dukakis was practically
the only liberal in the bunch.

o This is facilitated by loonies like Barbara Anderson and
her CLT, Citizens for Limited Taxation. They are a classical
right-wing "We've got ours, screw everyone else!" bunch of
rich twits, but they have a disproportionately loud voice
in Massachusetts, being strongly supported by the media
as they are.

o After Cellucci left for his Bush-buddy ambassadorships,
Jane Swift, the Republican Lt. Gov was the heir-apparent.
But Romney needed a launching place for his 2008 Presidential
bid and Swift had had a few embarrassing incidents so he and
his friends unceremoniously kicked Jane to the curb and
installed Romney as the candidate in her stead.

And the rest is history.

Tesha

Really no other way to go about it. He promised to be a Bill Weld style of Republican, which is still pretty popular down there.

And in a State where the legislature is VERY blue, and Taxes are high, Moderate Reps have a history of winning here.

He is pretty despised here now. I think McCain could beat him here.

Either way you can't trust him.

run very beatable candidates for Governor. The power in Mass is in the House and Senate which have strong, some say way too strong, political clout. They would never run for office of Governor which is a step back. Right now with Patrick Governor, DiMasi still reigns all the power. So Republicans run these somewhat moderate candidates like Weld and Celluci and Volpes who are very moderate. Mitt lied to take advantage of this. Along with O'Brien(another one of those weak Dems) running a poor campaign it was doomsday for dems.

There have also been Weld and Ed King, among others...