All you have to do is go back to the 2008 Iowa debate. The “Show of Hands” question.
Q. Show of hands. How many of you believe global climate change is a serious threat and caused by human activity?
Before Fred Thompson saved their butts, see who’s hands shot strait up. Yep, good ole Mitt. Then showing that he is a follower not a leader, watch what Mitt does when Fred says “I’m not doing hand shows”.
The video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAYtC_jcK1U
“All you have to do is go back to the 2008 Iowa debate. The “Show of Hands” question.
Q. Show of hands. How many of you believe global climate change is a serious threat and caused by human activity?
Before Fred Thompson saved their butts, see who’s hands shot strait up. Yep, good ole Mitt. Then showing that he is a follower not a leader, watch what Mitt does when Fred says “I’m not doing hand shows”.”
Great post. Mitt Romney is a team player, not a leader, and that one incident proved it. That media ploy of asking for a “show of hands” stunt, portraying the candidates as schoolchildren being questioned by the teacher, was so transparent, yet it worked! Except on Thompson. It was hilarious!
But, bottom line, the article starts out “Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, in danger of losing his 2012 Republican primary front-runner status,...” I think it should be obvious to everybody the Romney bid has failed. New Poll on TV this morning trumpeted: Perry new frontrunner at 29%, Romney down to 17%! this is understood by Romney himself, otherwise; he would never have made such a tin-ear move by going forward right now with the mansion tear-down project. Oh, he will stay in as long as the party machine needs him to stick around to complete its selection process, but it’s over for Romney himself.