Romney not cut out to be US president
Republican candidates recent observations reveal meanness and divisiveness in his personal character
By Michael Cohen
Published: 00:00 September 21, 2012
If the Republican primaries and presidential campaign have taught us anything, it is that Mitt Romney is not very good at politics. Incessant gaffes, strategic missteps, a paucity of policy prescriptions and a plethora of head-scratching tactical decisions have come to define his run for the White House. Quite simply, Mitt Romney is a bad politician.
But on Monday night (September 17), we learned something new - and profoundly unsettling - about him: he may very well also be a bad person.
I dont use those words lightly, but Im not sure how else to interpret the comments he made at a closed-door fundraiser that were posted online by Mother Jones. They are devastating. They suggest a level of meanness and divisiveness in Romneys personal character that is disturbing ‑ even disqualifying for the nations highest office.
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Worse than the crudeness of Romneys argument is its remarkable lack of social empathy. The United States provides healthcare, food, housing and you-name-it to our fellow citizens not as a means of capturing their vote, but because this is fundamental to the basic social compact. That fact seems to elude Romney.
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