What's shocking is that anyone ever thought he does. Tell you what, I was disappointed that all that Super Pac money from the Romney campaign seemed to derail Newt in Florida, but Democrats need not worry: Mitt Romney has a big old glass jaw.
His weakness is that he is Mr. One Percent-really Mr. Point Zero Zero Zero One Percent-so he has no first hand experience with the pressures and realities most Americans experience but even worse, seems to lack any sense of imagination and empathy.
FDR was as close to an aristocrat as you get in America, his family was so wealthy that after about 1800, no one had to work for a living. But what he had was an imagination-it is possible to sympathize with someone even if you haven't literally walked in his shoes.
But this requires a certain level of imagination-this kind of imagination we call empathy-and Mr. Romney is wholly lacking in any sense of imagination. The GOP strategy in the face of the Occupy Wall Street protest has been to at best ignore it at worst both ignore and mock it.
To me I would love to wake up tomorrow and be running against Mitt. First ad-which would be showed again and again-is his bloodlessly telling OWS activists that they are part of some nefarious group of pinkos who are trying to divide America and that he agrees with "American not you."
I mean that's just terrible politics whether or not you think you can get the vote of these activists you have to think about other people watching it who you can lose by being that dismissive. You don;t have to propose any particular policies in an interaction like that simply;y express you understand their situation and am deeply concerned about it. Romney is so clueless he can't even handle that.
The campaign against him writes itself. In many ways he is the worst possible face that the GOP can put out there to face a country that already as held it pretty low repute since the debt ceiling farce.
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