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For Romney, Bay State no longer a punch line

Candidate embraces his work with Mass. Democrats

By Matt Viser

 |  Globe Staff  

  October 27, 2011

During his first presidential campaign, Mitt Romney often turned Massachusetts into the butt of his jokes, casting himself as an outsider and suggesting that his home state was out of step with the nation on a host of social issues. “Being a conservative Republican in Massachusetts is a bit like being a cattle rancher at a vegetarian convention,’’ he told a Republican audience. While Romney still jokes about the Bay State, the former governor now says his experience in Massachusetts makes him, not President Obama, the best candidate to govern across the aisle.

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