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Wednesday, September 01, 2004
MINOR-LEAGUE MITT.
Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney's speech
was a disgrace. Rather than the governor of a major state, he sounded
like a Belmont selectman who'd won a contest to address the RNC. (No
doubt I'm being unfair to the Belmont selectmen.) It was a
combination of cheap, low attacks, meaningless schmaltz, and hero
worship of the Maximum Leader. This is a guy who's going to be taken
seriously as a presidential candidate in 2008? I don't think
so.
Here's a line for the ages: "George
W. Bush is right and the Blame America First Crowd is wrong!" I'm not
sure I've heard the phrase "blame America first" since neocon
godmother Jeane
Kirkpatrick was running
around unsupervised in the 1980s.
To top it off, in introducing
Romney, his lieutenant governor, Kerry Healey, repeated the lie that
Kerry is the most liberal member of the Senate. Try
#11. Yes, Kerry's a
liberal, but he's one who's right in the mainstream of the Democratic
Party. I'm not sure if Healey doesn't know or doesn't care. Given the
way she was giggling, it was probably the latter.
It will be interesting to see what
the Globe and the Herald make of this fiasco tomorrow.
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