Hmm...you’re hitting on something that worries me, too. He cannot change his looks (after all, Nixon wasn’t a beauty) but he can lower his speaking voice and avoid the adenoidal twang. That takes a really good voice teacher and I’m sure he has the money to find one. Margaret Thatcher’s voice was high and strident and she brought it way, way down over the years. Hillary ought to try it too but she’s too self-satisfied to even notice there is a problem.
Funny how we women see men differently. To me, Cruz is wonderfully handsome, more handsome every time I see him. If I met him at a barbecue or something, I’d be drawn to him. Romney, on the other hand, is smarmy and shallow, Eddie Haskell gone bad; Joe Biden, a very handsome man, is more sincere, if dim as a daisy.