Best BGlobe smackdown EVER: Romney abandons Mass.

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OMG! I like them again. (And after their fisheries putdown of Kerry yesterday, I was kind of pissed at them. Yes, fisheries. I didn't post it here, because my post about the hearing on CapHill of the Fisheries re-authorization bill was just a non-starter. And you call yourself Kerry fans. Ha! Real Kerry-fans watch Fisheries Hearings. Ahm, well, they try to anyway. Then they wander off and find Stephanie Miller for a little while. Okay, It was Ted Stevens, I just can't watch that man for more than ten minutes before I get a headache in my eye. Sigh!)

Romney exits right
December 15, 2005

OUR NEW YEAR'S wish: a governor who wouldn't rather be elsewhere.

By thumbing his nose at Massachusetts after less than three-quarters of one term as its chief executive, Mitt Romney, yesterday surrendered his clout and squandered his legitimacy. If, as it appears, his heart and mind are no longer in Massachusetts, he should resign.

Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey is inexperienced. But the state would be far better off in the hands of someone focused on state problems, rather than someone touring the country ridiculing the people he was elected to serve. Romney has joked in several states that, as a Republican here, he feels like ''a cattle rancher at a vegetarian convention."

Romney's decision was no surprise, as he admits to presidential aspirations and has increasingly taken conservative positions that would appeal far more to GOP activists in the South and West than to Massachusetts voters. Romney said he would keep his commitment to finish his term, but there is no reason to. He might as well follow Paul Cellucci, who went to Ottawa, and Bill Weld, who left for Mexico City (though he never arrived).

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2005/12/15/romney_exits_right/