Mitt Romney's effort to hide Mitt Romney

by kos

It's been clear from Day One that Mitt Romney is not comfortable selling himself to voters. His campaign has openly admitted that their entire strategy is to make the election a referendum on Pres. Barack Obama.
How does someone go on a "foreign policy tour," yet refuse to talk about foreign policy?

How does someone claim to be running based on knowledge of business, then refuse to talk about his business?

How does someone carry the banner of the moralist Republican Party, yet refuse to talk about his own faith?

How does a former governor run for president, yet does everything in his power to erase those four years from the debate?

You strip away those things, and what's left? The fact that he has perfect hair?

He has to know that he lacks the charisma to captivate a nation. House Majority Leader John Boehner has admitted as much, saying that Americans won't fall in love with him. He views the voters with such blatant disdain that he can't even pretend to hide it—he can't spend 30 seconds with normal Americans without insulting their ponchos or cookies. He says things, like his obsession with the height of Michigan trees, that just make people scratch their heads in puzzlement. After decades of obsessing about the candidate that Americans would want to have a beer with, Republicans nominated a guy who can't even drink a Bud. If the shoes were reversed, Republicans would've already painted that as un-American.

Romney's own base hates and distrusts him. Media coverage hasn't been as fawning as is usually the case with Republican candidates. His own high school friends sold him out.

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