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[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

perhaps the best governor in Massachusetts history.

Where in God's name do people get this idea?

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

After all, Romney is a North-East guy, perhaps the best governor in Massachusetts history. I figured he would have appeal in the area.

I believe I told Winfield this a week or so ago.
Ever heard of John Hancock? Samuel Adams? Calvin Coolidge? John Volpe? Mike Dukakis? Bill Weld? Deval Patrick?

Hancock, Adams, Coolidge, Volpe, and Weld, definitely.  Maybe not on Dukakis or Patrick.  How about Franics Sargent or Paul Cellucci?

I'd say yes to Dukakis and Sargent, no to Patrick and Cellucci. I don't think any of them are the 'best governor in Massachusetts history', but I'm not sure who I'd say was.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

(Bush appointed him shortly after he left as governor)

Not quite. He left as governor because Bush appointed him. He was the second governor in a row to resign after being appointed ambassador to some neighboring country, although the Senate never confirmed Weld for Mexico City because Jesse Helms wouldn't give a Republican who wasn't a frothing reactionary the dignity of a Foreign Relations Committee hearing.