Saturday, December 24, 2011

Romney ain't the guy. But who is?

The current Republican Primary season is mere days away and much like in years past, we as citizens have no clear choice for who the Republican nominee will be. After a few months of the flavor of the week while a consistent Mitt Romney held position around 25 percent, nothing has been decided or appears likely.
This situation in itself is troubling. It tells me that the "Ken Doll" better known as Mitt, does not have the confidence of an over whelming majority of  right leaning America. This inspite of being in constant campaign mode for over 5 years and supposedly living each event in his life as a means of preparing him for eventual Presidency. In my subjective opinion I see a milque toast candidate with nothing for the public to grab on to. I also see an individual who over the years has changed his core principles on a number of significant subjects for political expediency. Those two factors in themselves remind me of Bill Clinton and how his life seemed to build to that one final culmination in the Presidency and also in how Clinton relied greatly on public opinion and polls to determine his policy and values. Rest assured however, that I see no more similarities in the two. Romney is a man of unashamed faith albeit a stereotypically controversial one. He is also a great family man and has a stable, successful, and supportive family to back that claim. Other than his vacillations in some key voter litmus tests such as abortion he has few controversies and drama surrounding him. Unlike Clinton's serial adultery and sexual addictions or George W. Bush's past wild life and admitted cocaine and alcohol abuse, and even Barrack Obama's alleged cocaine dealing while in college and his apparently ignorant associations with former domestic terrorists and controversial black liberation theologian, Romney has litttle baggage to speak of and an impressive resume in business, politics, and organizations to contrast any negatives.
So why then, is Romney having difficulty finishing the job and pulling away from the pack to assert his long held notion that he is destined for the job of commander and chief? It is because he lacks the dynamic and extreme agenda necessary to communicate to the voters he will right this ship of our nation after it has taken so many hits to it's very structure.

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