Yes if he ran as a populist he would totally be president now.
No worries about things he said like...
"Corporations are people"
"I like being able to fire people"
"I'm not concerned about the very poor"
"there are 47 percent who....are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims...so my job is not to worry about those people—I'll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives"
Those certainly would not have suddenly become even more hypocritical and make his populist campaign completely ludicrous
If Romney had been running a populist campaign he would not have made the above statements.
None of those quotes were part of his official stump speech, they were spontanous things that revealed his Thurston Howell nature. You can also add "10,000 dollar bet" and the realities of his immense wealth but low tax rate and (as noted today by GOP strategist Matt Dowd) "I think it’s very problematic for Mitt Romney, who has car elevators, to run a campaign on poverty."
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/abcs-dowd-knocks-romney-you-cant-own-car-elevators-and-run-on-poverty/Yes the GOP should address poverty, but even before the 2012 campaign, Romney was the last guy in the party to be the person to lead that charge. And of course now it is completely ridiculous and is a transparent craven attempt to add a software patch to his previous glitch.
