Buh bye, Mitt. We hardly knew ye:
Is Mitt Romney too wimpy to be president?
That’s the (purposely) provocative question Newsweek asks on its cover this week. It’s a question sure to stir controversy ”” and one without an easy answer.
Newsweek seems to define Romney’s alleged ”œwimpiness” as a sort of wide-ranging insecurity that forces the Republican presidential candidate into a series of gaffes like the ones he committed in London late last week.
When a national magazine publishes on its front cover speculation that a major party candidate does not have the right stuff to be President (and said story is picked up by its erstwhile sister national publication), ballgame’s over.
Romney will now be forced into even deeper gaffe territory, scrambling to prove Newsweek wrong. He claims it doesn’t matter, but many independent voters do still read magazines and newspapers like Newsweek and the Washington Post, and the question is now in their minds.
You can try to ignore it, much like Sarah Palin did when Katie Couric deconstructed her on national television, and that will play to the base (I can hear the rightwing machine churning gears already…Michael Tomasky is a dyed-in-the-wool lefty reporter) but not to the portion of the electorate you desperately need to either turn out or stay away in droves.
And since you can’t control the crackpots on the right, well, this election is going to mirror the 1992 election in so many ways. There, Pat Buchanan threw red meat to the base and ended up making Bill Clinton a credible candidate despite the Gennifer Flowers story and the “I didn’t inhale” story.
We looked at the wimp, looked at the fact he couldn’t get Buchanan to rein it in for a night, and looked at the out of touch patrician of the past four years with gaffes galore and realized this was not a man we could trust in the midst of a recession.
Sound familiar?
About the only way Romney has been steadfast and stalwart is in hiding his taxes and lying about his time at Bain Capital, which is hardly a courageous position to take (although one could make the argument that it’s a bold one.) Add to that the numerous foreign policy slip ups and the fundraising on foreign soil and you start to get the picture of desperation and insecurity.
When the dust settles in November, we may have to credit le coup de morte to Tomasky,
I do not see him so much as a wimp. I see him as a salesman, so he will tell us anything that pops into his mind that he thinks might sound good to the people right there. He has no clue for the bigger picture, how that might sound to others who are not there and will see it on video later.
That, and he really is out of touch with 99.99% of the populace. Obama is blowing it by not showing that tape about the cookies in Penn a few months ago. Talk about coming across as a snob. Yowza. And yet he leads in the polls.
Who reads Newsweek anymore? Who cares about Newsweek anymore?
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-Geoduck
He claims it doesn’t matter, but many independent voters do still read magazines and newspapers like Newsweek and the Washington Post, and the question is now in their minds.
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