If Mitt Romney was a Democrat and been a Democrat his whole career, and he had been the Democratic Governor of Massachusetts for the one term, and if he had the campaign he had when he ran for Governor, would he be a viable candidate for the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination.
Please discuss.
It's an interesting question. Are we to assume that Romney's 1994 campaign was a failed challenge to Kennedy for the Democratic nomination?
Thank you for your comment. Good question.
Mitt Romney has many outstanding leadership qualities that would enable him to become a great President. Democrats attacks on Romney, even expressed on this forum, are bitter, to the point of hysteria.
I must emphasize, that ONLY a candidate that others take seriously, and in fact fear for the potential he has of actually winning, would be attacked in such a manner.
The point of this thread is to determine if Romney were a Democrat, had governed Massachusetts on a pretty standard Democratic platform, and was running for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 2008 on a pretty standard Democratic platform, this combined with his obviously outstanding leadership qualities and his charisma, would he in fact be a major competitor for the Democratic Presidential nomination?
As to your question, we can suppose that Romney did not contest the Senate nomination against Ted Kennedy, as Kennedy was, and still is, an entrenched Senator, and it is unlikely that any other Democrat would contest the nomination.
I will admit, Romney is a great businessman. The only thing that makes me angry is that Kerry got harassed for changing his positions on the issues, but when Romney does it nobody seems to care.
