Much is being said in the media about how Mitt Romney is not “likable”- about how he doesn’t “relate well” to everyday people. A lot is being written about how his background makes it impossible for him to relate to middle class Americans. After extensive, intensive, investigative research there is now a Top Ten List to explain Romney’s “unlike-ability.”
1. He is drop-dead, ad-campaign ready handsome, with a statesmanlike aura. He looks like every central casting’s dream choice to be Commander-in-Chief. After years of reality TV, America should know better than to trust good looking people who present themselves as competent and capable. What would Snookie think?
2. He has been married to one woman throughout his entire adult life. During that time he has remained faithful to her, including through her bouts with breast cancer and Multiple Sclerosis. If only she had waited until her husband became a viable presidential candidate to be proud of her country the story would be complete.
The King of Top tens – OK maybe he is a liberal?
3. There are no scandals or skeletons hidden in his closet. Give George Soros, Media Matters, MoveOn.org, the DNC and the media time. They will eventually invent a scandal about Romney not having a closet.
4. He does not speak in an obviously fake, southern “black preacher’s voice” when doing so is thought necessary to reach voters. Perhaps after the election Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden will be available to give him pointers.
5. He is highly intelligent, having graduated cum laude from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. Oh, and his academic records are not sealed. After he is elected he can seal his records by Executive Order on his first day in office. Then will the media finally love him and hide, bury, or distract away from the story to protect him?
6. He does not smoke, does not drink alcohol, and has never done any drugs, not even during the 1960s counter-culture Age of Aquarius that was all the rage when he was in college. If only he had dropped acid and rolled around in the mud at Woodstock having sex in public like a wild animal.
7. He represents America’s “yesteryear”, when people believed in God, went to Church, didn’t screw around on their wives, sacrificed, and worked hard to succeed. Imagine what a media darling he could be, were he a latch key kid born to a single Welfare recipient mother who had been artificially inseminated, grew up on food stamps and as a teenager served time in prison for selling crack. That would qualify him to be a cultural hero…or land him a hip-hop recording contract and MTV airtime.
8. He is a family man with five accomplished sons, none of whom have police records or needed to go to drug rehab. Naturally, they were raised by a stay-at-home Mom. How old fashioned. Today that “choice” deserves America’s scorn. If only Romney had set the right example the boys could have turned out more like Bernie Madoff or John Corzine.
9. Oh yes, he is Mormon. Americans need to be especially fearful and contemptuous of a religion that teaches its members to live cleanly, be patriotic, to manage their lives in a fiscally conservative manner, to be charitable, self-reliant, and honest. No wonder Mitt Romney never stood a chance at becoming a pop icon like Jim Morrison, Kurt Cobain or Michael Jackson.
10. One more very important point. Pundits keep repeating the mantra that because of his personal wealth, he simply cannot relate to average, ordinary Americans. It must be because he made that money himself instead of marrying it, inheriting it from Dad, winning the lottery or cashing in on a frivolous lawsuit by suing a big corporate conglomerate.
Mitt Romney’s background, experience and trustworthiness demonstrate that he is a proven leader and a fine citizen who is qualified to become President of the United States. America knows what his religion is, that he will not desecrate the flag, bow down to foreign powers, or redistribute taxpayer’s money to political cronies through fiscally irresponsible faux “stimulus” plans.
America will not like taking some of the steps necessary to recover from a mountain of debt, but someone with Romney’s extensive business education, experience and background knows how to do it.
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Almost seems you’ve read the following, from May 31 of this year:
http://www.dailypaul.com/236937/why-i-am-endorsing-mitt-romney-for-president-and-not-ron-paul
Mitt Romney is the best man to represent America. He is the kind of President we all need at this time. Please vote.
No scandals. Bain is a scandal. The taxes are a bit of a scandal. His flip flopping is considered a flaw.
You know in politics they’ve done studies that suggest even alligning completely with the beliefs of a politician is almost impossible if he flip flops. Because even his own constitutes begin to fear he’ll cave on things they feel are important if it’s politically unpopular. They hate that.
Furthermore, your list highlights something interesting. You keep saying he didn’t do all these things most others did in the sixties. That he doesn’t have some of the flaws of major pop culture icons. That right there *might* be an indication of why people don’t relate to him.
Remember George Bush, ya know, before the economy tanked. When every Democrat had to sit there and sulk about how powerful he was. He did Coke, had that DUI/DWI, had this fratastic past he overcame to become a legitimate and stable family man. That’s why people liked Bush. That’s why even the Dems that hated him often found themselves, much to their chagrin, on his side.
Thing is…
…MOST people have done drugs.
…MOST people have had sex with MORE than one person.
…MOST people have found themselves in less than ideal circumstances no matter who they vote for.
You know who was ‘perfect’, Hitler.
Never smoke, never drank, never cheated. Was in bed by ten pm every night and up at 5 am every morning. It may have even been such a tightly wound persona that made him such a phenomenal jacka**.
In America we believe in free expression, so we like to see people who mirror that and who can still be good individuals despite having the flaws and falling into the traps that Bush did, or Clinton did, or Snookie does.
Reagan played this card to. Remember all the Reagan gaffes, the mis-speaking, the kind of harmless old codger demeanor he put off…we all know he wasn’t really that, but he did it to connect.
Romney doesn’t ever do this. That’s his problem.
You can trace the roots of the Tea Party, which the institutionalized “progressive” left hates with a passion, to proud, patriotic Americans who watched and celebrated the pinnacle achievement of human civilization, Neal Armstrong then Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon in 1969.
You can also trace the roots of the occupy “movement”, which the institutionalized “progressive” left adores, to 1969 and Woodstock, where a bunch of drug induced ner do wells regressed to rolling in the mud having sex like animals.
personal wealth and catholic. those things almost j.f.k., but it didn’t, and he was one our America’s great Presidents. oh yeah, and a democrat. lol
personal wealth and catholic. those things almost j.f.k., but it didn’t, and he was one our America’s great Presidents. oh yeah, and a democrat.
I think that really told the real Story about Mitt Romney! Great Story, and I think it would be awful hard to find anything that doe`s not fit! He will repeal ObamaCare and I hope dispose of Obuma it one Swoop! Paul Ryan will Help Him emmencely!! Two great Guys!
Wow sounds like the poster child for “life styles of the rich and boring.” When I look at Romney all I see is a talking Ken Doll which works because his wife is a barely talking Barbie doll. Cute couple.
“A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose your job. Recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his job.” — Ronald Reagan July, 1980
Kurt Cobain? I didn’t realize he wanted to be Kurt Cobain. What a weird reference. This whole thing is weird. And deluded. He didn’t make that money himself through hard work or careful planning, he did it by stripping companies of their assets, mortgaging them to the hilt, taking the cash and leaving them to file bankruptcy and close – causing thousands of people to lose their jobs. He is admirable! The American Dream! He’s Gordon Gekko!
Not only are you misinformed, you have no sense of humor…a very sad combination.
You just hit the nail on the head. Have you seen the documentary 2016?