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The Boston Herald wrote:
The rest of the nation got to meet the Mitt Romney we in Massachusetts have known well since electing him governor in 2002.
That was a time when our economy was in recession and our self-confidence still in the post-9/11 doldrums. When our problems seemed intractable and the political will of our leaders on Beacon Hill to solve them virtually non-existent. Spending was all our legislators knew and spending was not going to get us out of this mess.
Sounds kind of familiar, doesn’t it?
So along comes this guy who says he can help fix things -- just like he helped fix a boatload of businesses and helped others, like Staples, to get their start, just like he helped fix a scandal-plagued Winter Olympics.
Massachusetts took a chance on him and damn if he didn’t do just what he said he would do -- close the deficit, not raise taxes, and work across the aisle -- with a 90 percent Democratic Legislature.
And so Thursday night, not surprisingly, he made an unabashed pitch to Democrats, independents and all of those who bought into the Obama mystique.
"Hope and change had a powerful appeal. But tonight I’d ask a simple question: If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn’t you feel that way now that he’s President Obama?" Romney said. "You know there’s something wrong with the kind of job he’s done as president when
And for those who are tired of it all -- the profligate spending, the failure to move the economy and Obamacare -- he had this message:
"Today the time has come for us to put the disappointments of the last four years behind us."
He also summed up their fundamental differences this way:
"President Obama promised to slow the rise of the oceans. And to heal the planet," Romney said. "My promise is to help you and your family."
And, yes, the Mitt Romney the nation got to meet last night is indeed a man of deep and abiding faith -- who could be putting his feet up in a hammock on Lake Winnipesaukee long about now. But instead he can’t back away from one more turnaround effort for a nation in deep trouble.
