Definitely goes along with Romney's gleeful smirking after he thought he owned Obama on the Benghazi attack. How does someone like this survive in politics?

I don't think the full story lends itself well to your rather over-wrought "Rmoney is mean to the handicapped!" framing here.

As much as I dislike Rmoney, not every single assemblage of words that n a cursory glance seem somewhat negative about him deserve to be spread around.

So someone had to die before the Governor could fire an incompetent Turnpike chairman?

Sounds like Liberal Massachusetts.

This just in: Mitt Romney is a dick.

Powers wrote a book about what an incredible, unfeeling monster Romney is up close:

http://www.amazon.com/Mitt-Romneys-About…

We should all know by now, the man is amoral.

At least we know of one time Mitt told the truth: when he said, "I like to fire people."

Wow, Mitt's mean! Film at 11!

Romney is a sociopath. He has zero empathy for people who are not him. And, like Bush Jr., he has Daddy issues - Daddy couldn't win the presidency, but Mitt can.

God forbid that man ever becomes POTUS. Sure, I know that he won't be a dictator and that he has to go through congress - but with the congree we have, is that really an obstacle?

Thank you, 9. I've been thinking he was a sociopath for a while.

Please, it was not a "tunnel collapse", it was a falling ceiling tile in the tunnel that killed that poor woman. There is a difference. Mitt Romney is still a dick, however.

Speaking of the other abled...

I was surprised that I have not seen any reaction to the story Paul Ryan told about Romney helping a family who was the victim of a car accident. He referred to the two boys who survived as "crippled". I have not heard that term for decades.

He didn't say it with animosity...just a kind of antediluvian flair.

@11: and there's a difference between 'a ceiling tile,' and a 3 ton concrete slab. She didn't get hit by some little piece of plaster. She had a giant frigging rock crush her to death. The Big Dig was a financial boondoggle and remains a disaster. Somebody should have gotten fired for it.

I also feel it necessary to say the Romney coverage has really slumped lately. Look, I've lives all my 33yrs in Franklin and Hampshire counties here in MA. I'm a product of our public schools and higher education. I'm a state employee. I have as much reason to hate Romney and 4 more years experience at it than most people here. He's a jackass. But headlines that suggest that either A.) He fired someone for being handicapped or B.) That there's something inherently unethical about firing someone who's handicapped for cause is just sloppy writing. Sounds to me like the guy was doing his job, protecting someone who probably should have lost theirs. He was doing his job well, and I'm sure he was fired out of spite. Why isn't that bad enough to be the headline?