Tuesday, November 21, 2006
BOSTON (AP) -- By almost any measure, Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney -- a would-be presidential candidate -- should be hanging his head right now.
He was chairman of an association supposed to elect Republican governors, but they lost 20 of 36 races on Election Day, which saw widespread GOP losses.
Then, in an issue critical to the GOP's conservative base, the Massachusetts legislature balked at his request to let state voters decide on an anti-gay marriage amendment, forcing him to petition the state's highest court.
In addition, two of his potential rivals, Sen. John McCain of Arizona and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, jumped out and announced they were forming presidential exploratory committees.
Yet true to the business training that earned him hundreds of millions of dollars, Romney has a plan and he's sticking to it.
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