So I have to ask this - why didn't Mitt Romney run for a 2nd term as Governor?

[LynneSin]

I mean Massachusetts doesn't have a single term limit. If Romney wants people to vote for him based on his leadership skills I'd like to understand why the guy didn't run for a 2nd term. I mean if the guy was doing a great job in Massachusetts and as a republican could win in such a progresive state - well why didn't he run again?

I think this needs to be discussed and understood. If there is something there then perhaps it should be shared with the voting population.

[Mz Pip]

1. I've wondered that too.

Though maybe MA is a bit like CA. We have been a reliably Blue state for quite a while but we still have our share of Republicdan Governors.

Maybe Romnay is just a good salesman. He sure can tell people what he thinks they want to hear. I just hope he isn't able to talk himself into the WH.

[LynneSin]

2. I remember he stated about running for president in 2008 however...

the re-election was 2006. He could have run and served for a year and still run for office. Better to be a governor elected twice running for office than a '1 and one' person.

[frazzled]

3. He just needed it for a resume line in order to run in 2008?

Honestly, I think he's really not interested in governing itself, but just wants to check off the boxes on his resume. He'd done the corporate thing, the Olympics thing: he needed a governing thing ... so he could mark off "President of the United States" next on his checklist. He's about racking up accomplishments, like money. Or power.

That is my reasoning at least. Also, if he wanted to run in 2008 in the conservative Republican primary, he couldn't spend too long as governor of "Taxachusetts."

[rustydog]

4. He couldn't fire the House and Senate and outsource the legislature

He's a one-trick pony.

[WI_DEM]

5. I think he looked at the odds and thought he might lose...

and if he were to run for president he didn't want to run as a candidate who lost his last race.

[subterranean]

6. I think he was just using the position as a springboard to run for President.

I'm not in Massachusetts, but my understanding is that he did not run for a second term because he wanted to run for President. That's one reason he was so unpopular by the end of his term -- he spent too much time out-of-state preparing for his presidential run.

[randr]

7. His Governorship was merely a down payment on his run for President

His only interest in life is power, just like his neocon controllers.

[CK_John]

8. Why did he order all hard drives removed from computers and taken out of state

hands. Also was the state Treasury and bank accounts check?

[tabbycat31]

9. I wonder if he would have ran had it been another year

With 2006 being a wave year for Democrats and all.

I should ask my BIL next time I see him (he works for Romney's campaign--- yeah that makes holidays real interesting).

[Bake]

10. One and Done!

He should've played basketball at Kentucky ...



Bake

[braddy]

11. Romney did want to run for reelection

and publicly said so, the problem was that his own internal polling showed that it wasn't in the works.

Romney left office with 34% approval, reelection was not going to happen.