Posted on 02/04/2012 5:08:39 AM PST by Kaslin
He’s too handsome, too rich, and too pompous to win the hearts of ordinary Americans.
Republicans are doing something quite strange at the moment. They are in the process of choosing a candidate whom hardly any of them actually likes. Though Mitt Romney won the Florida primary handily yesterday, rumbles of dissatisfaction with him continue.* Romney isn’t so much winning the Republican nomination as having it default to him for lack of any compelling alternative.
The case for voting for Romney goes as follows: Of the Republican presidential candidates, he is the only one with any real chance of defeating President Obama in November. In support of this electability hypothesis, Romney’s advocates elaborate such qualities as the candidate’s lack of any obvious mental defect, the nonextremity of his views, and his vastly superior financial and organizational resources. Seldom, however, do his half-hearted supporters evince any affection or enthusiasm for the man himself. They generally acknowledge Romney to be an insipid, somewhat blank personality, who is almost absurdly variable in his positions and core beliefs.
In this respect, Romney strongly resembles two similarly unloved Democratic nominees from the recent past, Al Gore and John Kerry. Gore and Kerry both suffered from the same characterizations that get applied to Romney—too wooden in person while too flexible in their views. Their supporters often argued that qualifications were what mattered. But ominously for Romney, both Gore and Kerry lost winnable races because of their flawed personalities. George W. Bush, on the other hand, got elected and re-elected, despite his enormous, substantive shortcomings, because ordinary people found it easy to relate to him at a personal level. They felt he wasn’t trying to be someone different from who he was.
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I do not agree with the hypothesis of this story. Since when do we let the liberal, socialist/marxist Democrats pick our candidate?? Of course they say Romny can beat Obama..what else would they say in their game of winning??
We have only OFFICIAL RINOs on the ballot in Virginia.
That was brought to the public by the Republican Governor, Lt. Governor, et al.
They used to be Conservative but they caved in to the siren song of the RINOs.
No write-ins are allowed on the Virginia primary ballot.
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