January 5, 2012
If Mitt Romney becomes president
I’m to blame. Ten years ago I ran for the Democratic nomination for
governor of Massachusetts — which would have given me the opportunity to
whip Mitt Romney’s ass in the general election.
I
blew it. In the final week of the primary I was neck and neck with the
state treasurer, but then my money ran out, which meant my TV ads
stopped. Declining the suggestion of my campaign manager to take out a
second mortgage on my home, I frantically phoned anyone I could find who
hadn’t yet contributed $500, the maximum state law allowed. I didn’t
raise beans. In the end, the treasurer won the primary, Romney won the
general election and became governor, and I went back to being a
professor.
But my fantasy of
beating Romney may be nothing more than a fantasy because Romney had —
and still has — something I never did, and I’m not referring to his
gleaming white teeth, carefully-coiffed hairline, or height. He has
money, and he has connections to much more money.
Mitt Romney was and is the candidate of big money. READ MORE
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