Someone explain to me how Massachusetts just didn't sink into the sea when Romney was governor

[LynneSin]

I mean this guy acts like this Hurricane Sandy is just a Sunday afternoon sprinkle.

[WilliamPitt]

1. Easy.

He didn't do anything. The mayor of Boston, the Speaker of the House, the President of the Senate and the Secretary of State ran the state.

[LynneSin]

2. I'm guessing they were all democrats

That would explain how your state survived!

[WilliamPitt]

3. You guess correctly.

Massachusetts was, for 16 straight years, an experiment for the GOP: Cellucci, Weld and then Romney were planted in MA and cultivated to be national presidential candidates palatable to independents and conservative Democrats ("See? I ran Massachusetts! I'm not hard-right!&quot . The first two never flowered, and Romney is the last survivor of the experiment...but during those 16 years, the state learned how to run itself without a governor to govern, because they were too busy preparing to be national candidates.

[jenw2]

4. Because he was a different person then

Gov Romney is the almost opposite of candidate Romney.