Romney hates his own state. How's that for character?

The Speck is really ticking me off. Three years ago, I gave him the benefit of the doubt about his residency. At the time, the Michigan-raised, Utah-inhabiting-for-tax-purposes Mormon was trying to convince the public that he really was a Massachusetts guy. He'd lived here for decades, raised his kids here, built a business here. I wrote a newspaper column entitled "Is he or isn't he?" about the Utah residency flap, and I came down on his side. Now I've been proven a fool and he's proven himself an ass.

The title of the article in the Washington Post says it all: Massachusetts Governor Makes His State the Butt of His Jokes.

Here's a summary of the residency issue, from Wikipedia:

While Romney kept his house Belmont, Massachusetts after 1999, it is debatable whether that was his primary residence from then until 2002, as for most of that time he lived at house in Park City, Utah and worked there also.

Further complicating the issue was that in while living in Utah, Romney had filed taxes as a Utah resident, receiving a $54,000 tax break (reserved for the “primary residence” of Utah residents) on his $3.8 million home in Park City. Additionally, in 1999 his Massachusetts state tax return listed him as a part-time resident and his 2000 tax return listed him as a full-time Utah resident.

In April 2002, after returning to the state and deciding to run for governor, Romney altered his 1999 and 2000 tax returns, changing his residency status for those years to Massachusetts resident from Utah resident.

This guy is about as disingenuous as they come.