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Mitt Romney: A Candidate With a Serious Wimp Problem
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Mitt Romney: A Candidate With a Serious Wimp Problem
Jul 29, 2012 12:00 PM EDT
Michael Tomasky
Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/29/
michael-tomasky-a-candidate-with-a-serious-wimp-problem.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/cvvzjdl
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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A good-looking guy doesnt have to walk around saying, Hey, look at me! He
knows everyones looking. And a rich guy doesnt have to remind us hes rich.
When he does, somethings off. It looks insecure.
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Romney is the genuine article: a true wimp. Oh, there are some ways in
which hes nota wimp lets himself get kicked around, and Romney doesnt
exactly do that. He sure didnt during the primaries, when he strafed Rick
Perry and carpet-bombed Rick Santorum (but note that they were both weaker
than he).
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In some respects, hes more weenie than wimpsocially inept; at times
awkwardy ingratiating, at other times mocking those below him, but almost
always getting the situation a little wrong, and never in a sympathetic
way. The evidence resonates across too many years to deny. What kind of
teenager beats up on the misfit, sissy kid, pinning him down and violently
cutting his hair with a pair of school scissorsthe incident from Romneys
youth that The Washington Post famously reported (and Romney famously
didnt really deny) back in May? The behavior extends, through more sedate
means, into adulthood. The Salt Lake Olympics remains his greatest
triumph, for which he wins deserved praise. But to many of those in the
know, Romney placed a heavy asterisk next to his name by attacking the men
he replaced on the Olympic Committee, smearing them in his book, even
after a court threw out all the corruption charges against them.
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And what kind of presidential candidate whines about a few attacks and
demands an apology when the going starts to get rough? And tries to sound
tough by accusing the president who killed the worlds most-wanted villain
of appeasement? Thats what they call overcompensation, and its a dead
giveaway; its the tell. This guy is nervousterrifiedabout looking weak.
And ironically, being terrified of looking weak makes him look weaker
still.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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