Winnipesaukee White House???

[Hermit Cover]

Today's news speaks again of a possibility that Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney is considering a run for the White House. If elected......if.....elected, would his portion of the lake become a high security zone.....even more than it is now when Mitt's in town? Just a thought......

[ApS]

When President Richard Nixon bought his place on Key Biscayne (Dade County, FL) the island got "discovered", and all the houses (2-3000 of them) on the island tripled in value -- seemingly overnight. News that should have been viewed as neutral, though some of my Key friends could no longer afford to live there.

The good news was that the county secured some public areas along the shorefront where folks still raft, anchor, and overnight in protected anchorages.

The bad news was that ALL the island became SO valuable that the county "interpreted" a HUGE "olde family" gift of palmtree-filled picnic grounds "for the public enjoyment" to mean that the Lipton Tennis Tournament could convert palm trees into pavement, and picnic tables to grandstands and courts.

If history is any guide, I'm voting Democrat!

[Frdxplorer]

The old saying goes that every Senator who looks in the mirror sees the next president. During the last several administrations, the cliche has focused on governors. But I gotta be honest with ya, Romney might make a splash in the NH primaries but I don't see him runnin much further than that. I think that the Senator from the same state prolly carried more water than Romney. Having said that, obviously his part of the lake would be off limits to those without the most stringent security clearence if he ever got elected to the highest office. Also, in the days since Sept. 11th, I wouldn't doubt if the entire lake was a no fly zone during his stays.

[Grant]

That would be problematic, as his property is by Wolfeboro Bay. Imagine the Secret Service detail on the Mount Washington. "Put down the binoculars, sir." Metal detectors on the Wolfeboro docks. "Hey kid, what's the in bucket?" TV news trucks clogging the already-insane Main Street. Motorcades flying up Rte. 28. At least the airport would remain open -- they'd need a place to land the 'copter. Come to think of it, it would be an absolute nightmare. I'd vote against him just to keep the traffic and security insanity to a minimum. Let's pick a southerner with a vacation place in, say, Minnesota.

[upthesaukee]

And then there are the SCUBA divers to drive the Secret Service wild!! http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/14/14_4_105.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZSXXXXXX42US) Where is that pesky diver WD or Grant? http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/7/7_3_130.gif (http://www.smileycentral.com/?partner=ZSzeb001_ZSXXXXXX42US)

[Winnipesaukee Divers]

As I see it Romney doesn’t stand a chance of wining... but if by some chance that all the other candidates should all die in a plane crash or something like that and he wins, you won't catch me diving Wolfeboro bay again... Been there done that... and it won't happen again, lesson well learned.

[Grant]

WD -- Share the lesson learned...I'm sure it's a highly entertaining story...

[Winnipesaukee Divers]

Webmaster Don and others won't appreciate it since it happen in Mexico and I can't draw the connection back to the lake. Somehow, I think you already know the story, but if you don’t recall it, maybe I can send to you the shorten version of the three Winnipesaukee terrorists trying to sabotage the Pan-American talks...

I like to think of myself as a quick learner. I saw just how sharp they were with the guy that was showing a picture of the fish they caught at the Great Winni derby… They pick up on it right away when they noticed there wasn’t any ice in the picture. I don’t want to be the next guy to be admonished for not following the rules…

[Grant]

...three Winnipesaukee terrorists trying to sabotage the Pan-American talks...

LOL...and here I was picturing you straying off course and accidentally breaching Mitt's yellow-buoy-marked "No Float Zone" while innocently bobbing along the bottom, elbow-deep in Winnipesaukee muck, in search of precious artifacts...

[rrr]

WD - I miss your stories!

[ApS]

WD:

Wouldn't discovering an underwater threat to a politician's location in murky Lake Winnipesaukee waters be more difficult than, say, an underwater threat in Mexican waters?

[fatlazyless]

In the last 25 years of Presidents Carter; Reagan, Bush-41, Clinton, & Bush-43, starting in 1977, four out of the five were state governors and none were a United States senator. The losing candidates; Ford, Carter, Mondale, Dukakis, Bush-41, Dole, Gore, and Kerry, had five being US senators. So, governors become President a whole lot more frequently than do Senators.

As a governor who is a very good extemporaneous public speaker, has a very friendly personality, has movie star good looks, is very wealthy, is a Mormon with four kids, and is smart enough to have sold his Cape Cod second home for one on Winnipesaukee, maybe he has what it takes to get the nomination in three years.

Time will tell, it always does....

http://news.bostonherald.com/localPolitics/view.bg?articleid=70415