Here's another post I did explaining why Massachusetts hates Mitt Romney. Those who feel like Mitt joined your team...dream on. His motivating factor is his own ambition...its the only trait he's consistent about (to be fair, he is fiscally sound).
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.