Mitt Romney Mentioned As Possible Candidate for US Senate Seat if Kennedy Unable to Complete Term
Please don’t think I feel anything but best wishes for Sen. Kennedy and his family at this trying hour. As Republicans, we always want to win seats in the Congress, but not this way. I am writing about this only because it is possible, hopefully not probable, that Sen. Kennedy will not be able to serve out the remainder of his Senate term. If that turns out to be the case, then the people of Massachusetts will have to decide who will represent them. One of the names being mentioned is Mitt Romney.
~~John Cronin~~
http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2008/05/21/news/3201228.txt
BY JIM HAND SUN CHRONICLE STAFF
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 2:19 AM EDT
For a brief time in 2004, it looked like U.S. Sen. John Kerry had a real shot at being elected president.
Massachusetts Democrats at the time feared that a Kerry victory would mean that Gov. Mitt Romney would get to appoint a fellow Republican to fill Kerry’s Senate seat.
The Democratically-controlled Legislature reacted by changing state law so that a vacated Senate seat would remain open until a special election could be held within 145 to 160 days, rather than have the governor appoint a replacement.
Now that law will prevent Democratic Gov. Deval Patrick from naming a successor should Sen. Edward Kennedy prove unable to complete his term because of a malignant brain tumor.
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:12 am
Why would Mitt go back to a liberal state, am I wrong, isn’t that position in Mass. what got him called a flip-flopper? He seems to be on a true conservative stand, now he would have to follow the law of the land, isn’t Mass. a very liberal state? Maybe I don’t get it. I’d rather see him on the course he is on???
May 22nd, 2008 at 7:27 am
Spot on, Paulee & Mike. Romney takes this HUGE swing to the right and, despite all of the criticism, he says that it’s genuine. Now the most liberal state in the union is somehow going to install this right-wing zealot (word used affectionally here) into the same Senate seat as the second-most liberal Senator in the nation? (Obama, of course, being the most liberal) I don’t get it, and in my view, doing such a thing would either risk exposing Romney for the chameleon candidate that he’s been claimed to be, or give him a chance to prove that he is a true conservative (which also means that he’s out at the end of Kennedy’s term).
Andrew
May 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 am
Andrew, Paulee&Mike,
I agree. IMHO, Mitt needs to say “thanks, but no thanks” to this one. I posted the story not to promote a possible Romney candidacy for the Senate, but just as a FYI.
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:40 pm
It’s true that Massachusetts is a socially liberal state, however we lean to the right on taxes and spending. Remember the Boston Tea Party. We dread the day of returning to Taxachusetts. Anyway…I doubt Mitt would run for the seat due to political environment being so bad right now towards the GOP. The last thing he needs is a political defeat right now in his own back yard. I think he might consider focusing his efforts on electing Jeff Beatty and Jim Ogonowski to Kennedy and Kerry’s seats. If he were to succeed it would place a lot of political capital behind him in 2012 if McCain loses in the fall.
May 23rd, 2008 at 10:33 pm
nobody is offering it to him, go back to Utah and get another wife.
May 26th, 2008 at 2:24 am
Mark Shut up…that is absolute bigotry…if you can’t add to the conversation just don’t say anything at all.
Anyway…I agree He should just focus on electing Jeff Beatty and Jim Ogonowski. It would certainly give him credibility with the party helping them win two seats in the Senate. Its unfortunate that Senator Kennedy and his family has to go through this. A brain tumor is dangerous just being benign but a malignant one…Wow!! I have a very big feeling Senator Kennedy will not be in office much longer of course with that Senator you never know.