Posted on 02/20/2012 6:53:18 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Mitt Romney isn't singing anymore.
A little more than two weeks after his off-key but enthusiastic renditions of "America the Beautiful" captured the spirit of a candidate who had won the Florida primary and seemed on the verge of locking down the Republican nomination for president, Romney is back in lackluster mode.
It's not just that Romney is facing a surprising challenge in his native state of Michigan from Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who vaulted into contention in the state-by-state nomination battle with wins in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado.
What alarms many Republican Party leaders and strategists are the signals they see from Romney's campaign as he struggles to support the notion that he is the inevitable nominee to face President Barack Obama in the November election.
They see the former Massachusetts governor as a candidate whose confidence appears shaken, and whose strategy and message now can seem off-key.
Gone are the vibrant rallies Romney held in Florida, replaced in Michigan by a series of low-energy round-table discussions.
This week, Romney often rushed through his stump speech as if he had a plane to catch, and made awkwardly curious remarks - "I love you" to a business group, and, "The trees are the right height" in Michigan - that made him seem particularly desperate for approval.
"I really count body language for a lot," said Republican strategist Rich Galen, adding with a joke that Romney, who ran for president in 2008, might have "hit the wall at the 5 1/2-year mark" of campaigning.
And then there were the two opinion pieces Romney wrote for newspapers - ....
(Excerpt) Read more at thefiscaltimes.com ...
Romney is like a lefthanded major league pitcher than can no longer throw lefthanded. He tries to resume his career throwing righthanded. It is totally unnatural and would take time to even pass the catch in the backyard test.
We can make our judgment about a politician by listening to their words and campaign promises, or looking at what they, and their political families, and mentors have actually done over time.
Romney is not the only scion of a political family out there who claims to be a conservative, but whose actions, family, associates, and temperment scream Progressive.
I do believe Romney, like his Dad, has core beliefs on what are the right policies for to America to follow, and they are all Progressive. He just is not any good at hiding them.
Thx for that!
The right pitch is the Sacrifice bunt....DROP OUT MITT!(The base doesn’t want you) Let Newt or Santorum get on base beacuse they actually have a chance of scoring....
if a candidate needs “magic words” then he/she has already lost.
Deads count, BS means nothing.
oops typo DEEDS
The fact that he thinks he needs the right “pitch” means he is merely mouthing words that he thinks people want to hear.
Did you know that when his dad was governor, his nickname was “The Rambler” because he vacillated so often and on so many positions.
But only for Democrats.
I know you meant deeds, but I couldn't resist.
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