Then why are the Romneys letting themsleves get sucked into this “we can empathize with you...we have also struggled” stuff?
Examples, William Henry Harrison, the hero of the Battle of Tippicanoe, ran for President using a "log cabin" emblem, although he was actually born in the Harrison's beautiful Virginia Tidewater Manor House.
Lincoln, who actually had been born in a log cabin, copied Harrison's technique.
FDR, who basically promoted a domestic policy very similar to that of the National Socialists in Germany, in the same era, used his little dog "Falla," to project a vastly kinder, more humane image than that of his German equivalent. To similar effect were his cozy "fireside talks."
Jimmy Carter's carrying his own suitcase in 1976, was his device for the same purpose.
The Romney Convention set the tone for emphasizing the personal compassion that Gov. Romney has shown to neighbors & other close acquaintance, through the years. It is perfectly legitimate & can only help. Remember that most Americans are not really ideological--except in a negative sense of knowing things that they do not like.
What we, who really do care about the issues, must do is to gently, but politely, patiently & persistently, seek to move the discussion around Gov. Romney in a traditionally American direction. (Why & How To Support Romney/Ryan.)
William Flax
Then why are the Romneys letting themsleves get sucked into this “we can empathize with you...we have also struggled” stuff?
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Looking at Romney’s past record, you must remember that Mitt was ahead of Teddyboy Kennedy with a short time to the election and he mysteriously ‘morphed’ himself into Teddy and lost.
I don’t know if I am being hyper about this BUT IMNSHO he tanked the election for Senate and ended up as Guv as his ‘reward’.
Every time I see one of these little ‘miscues’ I kind of wince, especially since ‘they’ shoved him down our throats.
Where is the Romney that slashed his way through his R challengers, leaving no bodies in a very scorched earth policy?
Next thing you know, Mitt will be saying BO ‘ain’t such a bad guy’, and him Boehner, McConnell and BO will be playing a round or two and we will experience BOHICA - again.