Another Romney lie--he worked with the Massachusetts legislature.

Frontline this week traces the careers of Obama and Romney.

While Romney was Governor of Massachusetts, he traveled the country, trying to get himself known nationally by speaking at Republican events. He and the person who introduced him would snark about liberal Massachusetts and how he had performed the miracle of working with the extremely Democratic legislature.


Frontline, however, tells a different story. He issued 800 vetoes and the Massachusetts General Court (legislature) overrode every one of his vetoes. That is 200 vetoes per year, almost one veto per working day.


Issued, knowing the legislature could, and probably would, override any veto from a Republican Governor.

He just wasted the legislature's time.

I was not aware of that at the time, so I am grateful to frontline.

So much for his ability to work across the aisle.

if he came on to my front porch and took a shit on my doorstep.

Romney is the very picture of destructive vulture capitalism that has ruined the nation's economy and future for millions. http://www.nationofchange.org/who-hijacked-world-s-greatest-economy-1350221836

And Ryan, he is Ayn Rand personified.

The real question should be, why pick such people to represent a party in a presidential election? Maybe the GOP is relying on the incredible state of ignorance of the electorate and influence of their own propaganda network.

I don't even know how to begin to think about it.

Maybe the first step is to decide if we believe the primary votes were honest?


Actually, things start before the primaries, when people are approached and told some folks would be interested in backing them if they were interested in running. (Or however those conversations go.)

Look at the field:

Rick Perry, doing his best imitation of Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda ("What was the third one again?")

Herman Cain, with his long time girlfriend and his weird campaign manager. (Remember the campaign ad that started with a guy just smoking a cigarette?)

Santorum, doing his best imitation of a Catholic nun


Newt Gingrich, doing his best imitation, as usual, of a know it all gasbag desperately in need of a nap. And don't even get me started on his wife. (Macy's called. They want their 1950 mannequin back.) And more baggage than the Sultan of Brunei's harem on a world cruise.

And so on.

It's as though Romney picked that field himself. And maybe he did.

In any event, in that field, he looked downright semi-normal.