Good moring, Rod and all
It’s a great morning in the Peoples’ Republic of Seattle - snow is melting and I finally got out of the house yesterday and Newt won SC last night!! We have rain on the way, folks still w/o power, trees down, wind & rain coming, but we’ll work through all that.
Just popping in for a little while. I saw this article and thought you might be interested in it. While I don’t agree that Romneycare, Bain, etc. aren’t potential issues, I think the “Romneyness” he mentions is 1 of the biggest hurdles Mitt needs to overcome (even though some of the pundits mentioned it was because he is Mormon). Christie mentioned to DNC Dave earlier that the Mittster just needed to communicate his ideas and plans better. It the interest of full disclosure, I heard him speak and met him during the 2008 campaign - he seemed more personable and made more sense to me on some issues then than now.
George Will: Mitt Romney’s Problem Is His “Romneyness” (video)
RealClearPolitics ^ | January 22, 2012 | RealClearPolitics
Posted on Sunday, January 22, 2012 7:36:07 AM by i88schwartz
George Will: “Mitt Romney’s going in trump card was electability. If you go back now to his 1994 senate primary, he’s been in 25 races. His record is six wins and 19 losses. Newt Gingrich won it, it seems at least 43 or 46 counties. He carried women and Evangelical conservative South Carolina. He carried evidently all seven Congressional districts.”
“So here’s what we now know, we all thought the big problem for Romney might be his mormonism and it might be the Massachusetts healthcare plan. That’s not it. Mitt Romney’s problem is somehow his ‘Romneyness.’ That is the fact that people just are notconnecting with him. Not just that he’s the first candidate we’ve ever had from the financial sector, which turns out to be a problem because finances, a, mysterious, and, b, disliked. But there’s something about him that is not connecting.”
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Your wisdom is always appreciated.
Last night was more important than we knew.
Seems 25% of the vote in SC last night was by indys. Newt carried them as well which could be a sign that he can take it all.
I still worry about Newt's unfavorables. Any sense as to how important they are or are not?