Romney officially announced that he is giving up on the Republican Party here in Massachusetts in order to turn his sights to national Republicans. Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney spokesman, acknowledged that governor’s sights are no longer at home; he attributes the reason for the lost interest on Romney’s new role as chairman of the Republican Governor’s Association. Romney will be gracious enough to do a few fundraisers for the anemic stable of candidates seeking office under Republican auspices but that is as far as the good governor will go. Romney’s reasoning? Fehrnstrom has that too:
Massachusetts is a blue state. Governor Romney took his best shot at electing more Republicans in 2004, raising record amounts of money for the state party, but despite his best efforts the party did not pick up a single seat.
Translation: Mitt is stumped, he figured throwing money at the problem would turn around 40 years of declining Republican enrollment and decreasing legislative seats. Since it did not the governor now believes his work here is useless so he is quitting and trying his trick on the national level.
This is not a very good track record for the Mittster. He is basically telling a national audience that the Mitt Way is to leave when the going gets tough. I suppose this is slightly better than the Bush way which is to pretend the ship isn’t sinking despite every single indication to the contrary. Those Republicans just have such good candidates I can now understand why we Dems keep losing.