Romney has been in the presidential sweepstakes long enough that Republicans are giving him a final chance. Sink or swim, Mitt m’boy. With their calculated denigration of Obama (a suitable pun there) they probably have a grim hope it’s enough to get a frog elected. They’re depending on enough voters to kiss the frog to make it a prince. .Ronald Reagan was kind of perennial candidate, too – and in case you don’t remember, for years many people thought he was wasting his time. (“An ex-actor? You must be kidding!”).It was a combination of circumstances – Iran, oil supply fears, Jimmy Carter – that slid him into election. Reagan played his finest role for eight years, and now he’s enshrined in the Conservative pantheon. The Man and The Times synchronized to make it come true. A similar comparison could be made of Obama’s election. Obama should have taken acting lessons..For a wealthy businessman, Romney seems extraordinarily clueless. In the media framework he appears scared and uncertain, keeping to a weak script, a John Agar type of actor. If he had to run a company that actually made engineered products rather than mostly reshuffled other companies, would he have been as successful?.Still, he and all of these people running are more intelligent and savvy than I, and I suspect most of you are, in these forums. To certain extents, what they have is the oft-cited “fire in the belly.” It gives me a snarky satisfaction to see so many of them flail in the winds of public and media opinion..Romney’s still going to win, though. Too many people have an incurred hatred of Obama, and it’s partly his own fault, greatly that of his advisors Not a clean win, but politics is getting more and more dirty. “Capitol Hill” could figuratively be called “Dung Hill.”.I keep trying to visualize who in American public life would make the most suitable president. The people I pick, accomplished as they are, probably are not the type to last through a rough campaign. And whatever they’ve done in the past would be misrepresented and distorted. .I think even sweet Jesus would be pegged as the “Jewish candidate.” Christian evangelicals would be in an interesting quandary, here. And the financial interests would dwell on his treatment of the temple money changers. And what’s all that about the circumstances of his birth??
Romney has been in the presidential sweepstakes long enough that Republicans are giving him a final chance. Sink or swim, Mitt m’boy. With their calculated denigration of Obama (a suitable pun there) they probably have a grim hope it’s enough to get a frog elected. They’re depending on enough voters to kiss the frog to make it a prince. .Ronald Reagan was kind of perennial candidate, too – and in case you don’t remember, for years many people thought he was wasting his time. (“An ex-actor? You must be kidding!”).It was a combination of circumstances – Iran, oil supply fears, Jimmy Carter – that slid him into election. Reagan played his finest role for eight years, and now he’s enshrined in the Conservative pantheon. The Man and The Times synchronized to make it come true. A similar comparison could be made of Obama’s election. Obama should have taken acting lessons..For a wealthy businessman, Romney seems extraordinarily clueless. In the media framework he appears scared and uncertain, keeping to a weak script, a John Agar type of actor. If he had to run a company that actually made engineered products rather than mostly reshuffled other companies, would he have been as successful?.Still, he and all of these people running are more intelligent and savvy than I, and I suspect most of you are, in these forums. To certain extents, what they have is the oft-cited “fire in the belly.” It gives me a snarky satisfaction to see so many of them flail in the winds of public and media opinion..Romney’s still going to win, though. Too many people have an incurred hatred of Obama, and it’s partly his own fault, greatly that of his advisors Not a clean win, but politics is getting more and more dirty. “Capitol Hill” could figuratively be called “Dung Hill.”.I keep trying to visualize who in American public life would make the most suitable president. The people I pick, accomplished as they are, probably are not the type to last through a rough campaign. And whatever they’ve done in the past would be misrepresented and distorted. .I think even sweet Jesus would be pegged as the “Jewish candidate.” Christian evangelicals would be in an interesting quandary, here. And the financial interests would dwell on his treatment of the temple money changers. And what’s all that about the circumstances of his birth??