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Republicans are wishing they could retroactively nominate someone else.
Instead, theyve picked a guy, in Mitt Romney, who reads like a caricature of every stereotype of an arrogant, out-of-touch Wall Street conservative, someone labeled a vulture capitalist by members of his own party.
Romney never planned to run on his record as governor of Massachusetts. That would mean campaigning on his signature accomplishment, RomneyCare, which (in its ObamaCare guise) he is now sworn to attack. Clearly, his business record would have to serve as his ticket to the White House. Yet Romney appears shocked that the accolades he receives in boardrooms and skyboxes arent translating to mass popular appeal.
Indeed, his business background is turning out to be so toxic that Newt Gingrich nearly derailed Romneys coronation by winning South Carolina on the strength of an anti-Bain message.
If attacking Romneys private equity buccaneering was so effective with a hyper-conservative electorate in the countrys most conservative state, how did Republicans expect it to resonate in the general election?
more: http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/markos-moulitas/238507-romney-in-a-pickle
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(236 posts)maddezmom
(135,060 posts)TlalocW
(15,417 posts)"I seem to be in a pickle. This kind of thing simply is not done to men of my breeding. Once I extricate myself from this gherkin, I shall make my displeasure known by buying the Mount Olive pickle company and firing all their employees. Harumph!" - Mitt Romney in a pickle.
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ananda
(29,032 posts)stuff the bastard in a jar and call him a pickle
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)Liberal_in_LA
(44,397 posts)Space99
(4 posts)At first I read: Romney is a pickle.