Speaking as a Mass resident, Romney's tenure wasn't a complete disaster. When he entered the governorship he faced massive debts and was forced into difficult cuts of which its unfair to be overly critical. The reason we hate him so is that for the second half of his term he stopped being governor when he started running for president. Not only was he out of the commonwealth over half the time, but he was constantly attacking us for being too liberal. He started championing a bill against gay marriage (a practice that a majority of the state supports and that had no chance of passing) and deriding the citizens who voted into office as being godless liberals who he was trying to steer to a better path. He was biting the had that fed him to appeal to the party base in other parts of the country where it seems Massachusetts has become a dirty word (Massachusetts liberal).

So now that he's turned his back on the people that voted him into office in the first place, and derided a state that was liberal enough to vote in a mormon (something that polling indicates the evangelical vote he's coveting refuses to do), mocked our value system to the point of practically calling us unamerican and to top it off threw Kerry Healy under the bus of his own ambition we say Mitt deserves what he gets.