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The Herald Flip-flops on Romney

Or at least its cover does. On Sunday, the Boston Herald dubbed Mitt Romney the “spin doctor” for his attempts to deflect criticism of Massachusetts’s health-care system:

That day, columnist Howie Carr argued:

An old putdown of a politician was to say that he reminds every woman of her first husband or worst boyfriend. Now the joke is that Mitt Romney reminds every worker of the boss who fired him. When the New York Post, in a devastating story about Bain Capital, describes Mitt as a “working class zero,” you definitely have a class problem.

Today, however, the Herald gives the cover to Romney and his criticism of President Obama.

Romney concludes:

Unless President Obama changes course, these job fairs, with their day-long lines of unemployed seeking nothing more than a chance to earn a living, are going to be seen as his Hoovervilles. “I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him,” President Hoover once ruefully complained. Obamanomics, which at extraordinary cost has accomplished extraordinarily little, is earning our president his own dubious place in our history books.

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   03/08/11 10:42

The Herald should not be President either.

Happy now?

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   03/08/11 10:44

It's Massachusetts, flip-flopping is what they do.

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MarkW
   03/08/11 10:52

I don't know why so many people insist on believing that being the head of a major corporation is good training for being president. Last time I checked, you still can't fire Congressmen and Senators. (Much as I would like to.)

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Michael K
   03/08/11 11:19

Willard was not really head of a major corporation that provided a service or made stuff. He was head of a equity firm that bought companies got them into good enough shape so they went into debt to pay back Bain. Whatever happened after that, said company having to slash payroll to meet its debt obligations, was none of Willard's concern.

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   03/08/11 11:21

MarkW,

Congressmen are more like members of a really large board, unless you own the company can get a majority of stock holders to agree to it, you really can't fire the board either. The president is the head of the executive branch and he does have a lot of say over who is hired and fired in the many many bureaucratic departments (the entire alphabet soup) which fall under control of the executive branch of the federal government.

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   03/08/11 18:20

Mitt Romney could be Don Draper's straight laced, non-drinking, non-smoking, faithful to his wife, even more successful older brother. Both are extremely driven men, one in life and one in TV prose.

Howie Carr doesn't sound like he knows the first thing about women or Romney.

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