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Related: About this forumLink to Newsweek's Michael Tomasky's article on Romney: A Candidate with a Serious Wimp Problem
Mitt Romney: A Candidate With a Serious Wimp Problem
Jul 29, 2012
Dodging reporters, fearing his base, hiding his taxesis Mitt Romney just too insecure to be president? In Newsweek, Michael Tomasky surveys a history of presidential manliness and asks just where Mitt would fit amid the studly swagger of Dubya and Reagan.
It should be the easiest thing in the world for a presidential nominee: a trip to England. The mother country, the shared tongue, our firmest ally. And it should have been easiest of all last week, happening as it did on the eve of the Olympics. Just praise everything you see. Limn London as one of the worlds great cities, invoke the spirit of the British people that lives on from the glorious days of the blitz. Praise the bangers and mash and the pasties if you have to. Nothing to it.
And yet, Mitt Romney managed to alienate just about every living Briton. He didnt merely criticize the organizers or bureaucratshe questioned the people of Britain themselves: Do [the people] come together and celebrate the Olympic moment? He wasnt sure. The Sun even went so far as to dub him Mitt the Twit.
It was an astonishing faux pasone of many packed into his brief visit. And it makes one wonder: if elected, Romney is going to have to work hand-in-glove with Prime Minister David Cameron and other world leaders on the ongoing global financial crisis and other issues. What unintended offenses are going to tumble out of his mouth then, when hes representing our nation on the world stage?
The episode highlights whats really wrong with Romney. Hes kind of lame, and hes really ... annoying. He keeps saying these ... things, these incredibly off-key things. Then he apologizes immediatelywith all the sincerity of a hostage. Or maybe he doesnt: sometimes he whines about the subsequent attacks on him. But the one thing he never does? Man up, double down, take his lumps.
more...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/29/michael-tomasky-a-candidate-with-a-serious-wimp-problem.html
Jul 29, 2012
Dodging reporters, fearing his base, hiding his taxesis Mitt Romney just too insecure to be president? In Newsweek, Michael Tomasky surveys a history of presidential manliness and asks just where Mitt would fit amid the studly swagger of Dubya and Reagan.
It should be the easiest thing in the world for a presidential nominee: a trip to England. The mother country, the shared tongue, our firmest ally. And it should have been easiest of all last week, happening as it did on the eve of the Olympics. Just praise everything you see. Limn London as one of the worlds great cities, invoke the spirit of the British people that lives on from the glorious days of the blitz. Praise the bangers and mash and the pasties if you have to. Nothing to it.
And yet, Mitt Romney managed to alienate just about every living Briton. He didnt merely criticize the organizers or bureaucratshe questioned the people of Britain themselves: Do [the people] come together and celebrate the Olympic moment? He wasnt sure. The Sun even went so far as to dub him Mitt the Twit.
It was an astonishing faux pasone of many packed into his brief visit. And it makes one wonder: if elected, Romney is going to have to work hand-in-glove with Prime Minister David Cameron and other world leaders on the ongoing global financial crisis and other issues. What unintended offenses are going to tumble out of his mouth then, when hes representing our nation on the world stage?
The episode highlights whats really wrong with Romney. Hes kind of lame, and hes really ... annoying. He keeps saying these ... things, these incredibly off-key things. Then he apologizes immediatelywith all the sincerity of a hostage. Or maybe he doesnt: sometimes he whines about the subsequent attacks on him. But the one thing he never does? Man up, double down, take his lumps.
more...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/29/michael-tomasky-a-candidate-with-a-serious-wimp-problem.html
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Link to Newsweek's Michael Tomasky's article on Romney: A Candidate with a Serious Wimp Problem (Original Post)
flpoljunkie
Jul 2012
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Webster Green
(13,905 posts)1. Great article.
Thanks for posting!
grantcart
(53,061 posts)2. Well we nailed him on the point even more effectively in January