Does Romney want Healey to lose?

Published Oct 18 2006, 02:05 PM by Adam Reilly

It sure looks that way. As the Herald's Margery Eagan noted yesterday, Mitt's buffoonery at the Boston edition of Liberty Sunday probably won't help Healey with undecided voters who happen to be social moderates. And yesterday, during an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Romney accepted Blitzer's contention that the Mass. governor's job would probably switch from red to blue this year:

BLITZER: So there will be a majority of Democratic governors as opposed to a majority of Republican governors?
ROMNEY: Oh, sure. I don’t think there is anyone who has looked at the poll numbers that doesn’t think that will happen. You have got states like New York and Arkansas that are blue states that have Republican governors.
BLITZER: And Massachusetts.
ROMNEY: And Massachusetts. With governors not running for reelection and so the math would say that’s going to be pretty hard for us to hold onto all those states.

What's Mitt up to? Well, first off, a Healey loss might look bad for Mitt if it's taken as a referendum on his administration. By classing Healey's hypothetical loss as part of a national trend, Mitt gets to do damage control in advance.

But there's another, more nefarious possibility here. Mitt has already convinced the national press that his win in 2002 was remarkable, despite ample evidence that we love our Republican governors here in Massachusetts. And a Healey loss would lend credibility to this utterly bogus argument. After all, if Healey can't win--even though she's been blessed by her association with Romney--Massachusetts must be rough for Republicans, right? I dare say Mitt might even incorporate Healey's loss into his national stump speech.

Honestly, I think Explanation #1 is the most plausible. Then again, Mitt is all about Mitt. If Romney and his advisers decide a Healey loss would help them, even slightly, they'll have no compunction about making it happen.

Write your own Kerry Healey ad!

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14 Comments

LF said:

Check out yesterday's 'outing' of another re-thuglican hypocrite--Senator Larry Craig of Idaho--turns out he was hooking-up in the men's room at Union Station while simultaneously voting to deny gay Americans fundamental civil rights: http://blogactive.com/ His pro-active denial of involvement in an early-80's sex-and-drug page scandal is worthy of note, as well.

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myclob said:

I was listening to Al Franken's book and he says that journalist don't have a liberal bias, they have a lazy bias, and crowd mentality bias. He gives tons of examples of stupid things that journalist say, as they all run off the stupidity cliff. Did Romney say anything even close to what you are saying he said? Fraken's book is called, Lies, and the Lining Liars who tell them. When you say something that is not true, that is called a lie. Romney did not say he wanted Haley to loose. He was admiting the facts that her pole numbers have not been so good. What is it that makes you a lying liar? Does the fact that real journalist do it make you feel part of the in-crowd?

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