If Romney was not a Mormon... he would still be a disingenuous prick.
Someone please explain to me why Romney is a strong candidate aside from his religion, I just don't get it.
His strongest point is his charisma.
I don't think he's charismatic at all. I think he's a cold fish. Why is he charismatic, because he looks like he was built by a focus group? To me, charisma means an ability to connect with an individual in the audience and make them think that they can trust you and believe in you. These days, authenticity is the key to charisma. The over-polished blow dried candidate went out of style ten years ago.
Well, it won him an election in 2002. He's very well polished, has good looks, and connects well in intimate audiences.
You don't seem to like Romney going in to this, so I wouldn't expect you to be "charmed" by him—you clearly don't want to be.
Not true. I was well disposed towards Romney at the outset and probably would have ranked him at the top of my list of candidates a year ago. His performance in the campaign has been so conventional, so stiff, and so vision-free, that I can't possibly support the man. I do not want a cliche machine who focus groups every syllable. He is, as Paul Tsongas once said of Bill Clinton, a pander bear (The most glaring example was his speech recently to the Mackinac Straw Poll, where he pledged to move the words "In God We Trust" from the back of our currency to the front. This is simply un-Presidential.) I was favorable towards Romney at the start, gave him a chance, and he flat out lost me.
