Flunking the Governorship

so sez the Boston Herald of all things, which yesterday gave Mitt Romney "poor marks" in many areas of gubernatorial performance.
Could be that Pat Purcell (or whoever is in charge over in One Herald Square, I can/t keep track, I am a blogger after all!)is simply tracking back to the center for campaign 2006.
Be that as it may, Mitt is politically moribund, and even the Herald knows it now.
The roots of Romney's stagnation aren't hard to see, he is a dilettante and an amateur politician of the first rank. HE may have the skills to get elected or simply the money to do so, but the art of governance eludes him.
The venerable Tammany Hall Sachem George Washington Plunkett once opined that politics was "a business like any other. You have to be trained up for it if you want to be a success".
That is Romney in a nutshell, he is an amateur, an unskilled politician all of which might make him a success, but it'll be in spite of his amateurism and not because of it.
Plunkett had another relevant aphorism "reformers is only morning glories" in other words, windy promises of reform are made with very little long term follow through due to the deficit of political acumen on the part of the alleged reformers.
Again, look at the Herald's gubernatorial "report card" not much there in terms of real accomplishment despite many many proud bumptious threats and pronouncements.
And believe me, things aren't gonna change much between now and election day 2006.

Romney still gets a good press, Scot Lehigh still sighs at the mere mention of his name and shills hard for Mitt's alleged "sharp political instincts".
Yeah but instincts without accomplishments very often degenerate into mere opportunism, and that seems increasingly Mitt's main strength as a politician.