the Massachusetts GOP bestrode this Commonwealth like a Colossus....now look at them!
Permit me to indulge some Friday morning quarterbacking and note the Massachusetts GOP's main problem can be summarized in two words, "Mitt Romney".
Yup, desperate to hold onto office they made a bad bargain with a outside contractor who admittedly won in '02 and then with the assurance of a rank amateur spent four years alienating the very suburban independents who once defected to him in droves.
In retrospect, a defection to the democrats was inevitable given Romney's foolish move to the right during and after the '04 election.
Romney's inability to attract new blood at the local level or hold onto the independents meant the base shrank without electoral compensation from other cohorts.
And in fact, Romney himself as a politician was a bad recruitment tool, cold aloof opportunistic he was everyone's hated boss. Mitt's idea of a fresh new candidate for state senate involved importing some yap from Wall Street.
The fact that the independent rolls keep expanding out in suburbia doesn't necessary foreshadow good news for the state GOP either, it just raises the electoral bar at the time when candidate recruitment and fundraising are both difficult. It shrinks the base and imperils what few safe seats they have in the state legislature.
The state GOP can still fundraise and they can bang the tocsin on the subject of public spending...so the potential is there...I was them I'd set my sights on grabbing off the state auditor's sinecure or some lesser statewide office. DeNucci has been in a long time and supplanting him with a republican would highlight their traditional self image as the watchdog for the predominant state democrats.
baring any accidents though, the are faced with some lean years...ah but the trouble is of their own invention.
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