Does anyone else think Mitt..

[one_voice]

would have been a bigger threat if he ran as an Independent?

He's never gonna get the religious base of the right, or the hard core tea partiers.

But would he appeal to those middle of the road Dems, Indies, and even Repubs?

Personally I think he would have been a bigger threat to Obama had he run as an Indie.

Thoughts?

[Sheepshank]

1. He really doesn't play well with anyone, any party, any political philosophy

I think his threat is probably bigger with the GOP, because he is who they really want and he is who they will push as the golden boy as we get closer to election time. They are just waiting for Gingrish to blow his wad.

[opihimoimoi]

2. Mitt is unfit only because he don't. Run as he might, no cigars. Ya can't buy the damn desk

ask the lady from Calif who bucked Brown for Gov....she got beat up despite spending 76 Million$

[PatSeg]

3. Its possible

but I still think he has a likability problem. There is something about him that most people instinctively can sense, but can't always define. I've tried to put it in words, but haven't quite nailed it yet.

The best I can come up with is a movie alien trying to impersonate a human being.

[SaintPete]

9. I say this as a straight guy, Mitt's got no sex appeal

He's that type of guy that gets a lot of first dates, but not many 2nd or 3rd...

Nice house, nice car, nice clothes, good background, handsome in a game show host sort of way, but boring in the sack.

I can't even imagine him having sex.

I know this is going to sound really weird...but the rest of the bunch? No problem. Perry, Bachmann, Paul - all a little psycho. Some people find that intriguing. I can see it.

We won't even get into Cain, he's gone anyway...

Even Newt, the little troll, has something going on...he's bad a dog, a scoundrel

Mitt..nope, there's a block. My brain goes into a 404 Error, Page Cannot Be Displayed.

[PatSeg]

10. Yeah

He has absolutely NO flavor whatsoever. He doesn't even qualify for "vanilla".

Also it is unsettling the way he tries so hard to make people like him. Makes me very uncomfortable.

[one_voice]

11. No flavor...

is an excellent description if him.

[Kahuna]

16. No fair! Afterall, he was sporting a spray tan for the debate Saturday night. nt

[ChairmanAgnostic]

12. He has a shallow , aiming to

Please personality combined with an unerring ability to sound insincere.

[PatSeg]

14. Well said

There is something very childlike about how he tries so hard, as if he is emotionally stuck at fourteen years old. Even with all his money, he can't buy friends.

[Kahuna]

17. He reminds me of Eddie Haskell of Leave it to Beaver, fame., nt

[PatSeg]

18. Yes, yes, yes

That's who I was trying to think of. He is Eddie Haskell, though Haskell is more likable.

[tblue37]

21. Eddie Haskell had a slimy conman sort of charm. Mitt has no sort of charm at all. nt

[PatSeg]

22. A little bit of slime

might make Mitt a little likable. What a sad little man.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

19. Y E S ! that's the ticket.

[Control-Z]

4. What a crazy backward world this is.

The way you've couched your question...

[CJCRANE]

5. He hasn't got that Indie vibe IMO.

There's something old school Republican about him.

[one_voice]

13. The old school vibe...

is why I thought he could survive as an Indie.

I did overlook the likeability factor, or "flavor" as another poster put it.

I think the general consensus is he wouldn't/doesn't appeal to many outside the Romneyites. I'd have to agree as well..

[CJCRANE]

15. Old school, old money...

too much like the face of the 1%...

[Romulox]

6. No. I sense little to no popular support for Mitt. He is the Republican Party insiders' choice,

and would have little or no traction as an independent without this behind the scenes boosterism, imo.

[thelordofhell]

7. I'm finding that those "I'm a Mormon" adds started popping up when Mitt was ahead

Like the Mormon Church was trying to prep the public into a Mitt presidency.

[sellitman]

8. With all his flip flops no one knows what Party or what group he appeals to

I do know he is anything but a Liberal. Which is all I need to know.

[SoCalDem]

20. His ONLY chance to ever be president would have been to become a democrat

after he was elected Governor...then serve as long as possible as a dem. He MIGHT have been able to run as a Dem by 2004..His money could have made a difference..Even though it was Kerry's "turn", Mitt's money could have beaten him in primaries.

[peasant one]

23. He is duplicitous

I think Mitt is hiding his real views to get elected as a republican (in today's teabag environment) and therefore everything he says and does sounds so insincere and that is what people sense when he talks.