Read the article. It seems to say he is socially akward because of clean living. I’m no Romney voter, but if clean living is “akward” then let’s have more akwardness in our politicians.
Ridiculous.
I’ve known plenty of Mormons who are neither “awkward” nor full of themselves. They may believe some ridiculous theology, but they get along just fine socially.
Romney’s awkwardness has nothing to do with clean living.
The problem with Romney is that he’s out of touch. He’s a multi-millionaire who cannot relate to the rest of us because he’s never lived like we do.
Haven’t we had enough of prima donnas in the White House?
Well, asking a guy perusing shelves @ a hardware store if he's shopping isn't moral or immoral commentary. It comes across as a POTUS candidate trying to win the "Captain Obvious" award for the day.
Oh, and then there was this one: He notes the lack of "guy waitresses" at a diner and says of the long skirts worn by the middle-aged wait staff: "Oh, this is the Hooters equivalent."
Makes it sound like he's either teasingly dissing their wardrobe -- which is fine if you know the people -- or worse, that he's a bit disappointed they don't have the Hooters' wardrobe...less likely, but can be left open to interpretation.
Sorry, but Mitt's hardly an icon for clean living.
Let me give you an analogy.
The motel industry was, in part, created by the Route 66 drive from Chicago to LA in the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s.
Imagine you're around then & you have an acquaintance whose taken over a successful established Route 66 motel in the late 50s -- a motel in a sparsely populated county with no law enforcement. This guy's intrigued by new porn venues on the market like Hefner's Playboy and has both weary travelers & truckdrivers in mind for targeting them for a full onslaught of viewing home-made porn...both published stuff & small film rooms devoted to watching it.
So he taps into a regional pimp to film/shoot his prostitutes having sex and he makes it available to his customers.
It becomes so successful of an addition to his business, that he doesn't mind the "porn motel mogul" title & starts bringing on Board members in the hopes of expanding the motel into a chain that he would like to take public in 15-20 years.
Now what if I told you one of those board members was Mitt Romney?
Now Romney hasn't been a board member of a mere motel or motel chain, but the Marriott Hotel chain. He's been paid $25,000 a year for that role -- yes, a mere pittance on his millions -- but still raking in a % of Marriott's hotel customers who pay in-effect prostitutes for voyeur rights to view it...no different than somebody shooting/filming prostitutes having sex.
There's no way around it: Any hotel or motel in bed with the porn industry is the porn industry!
Even the Mormon church owned Deseret News critiqued Mitt's involvement with Marriott over the porn connection in a July 2007 editorial: The nasty taint of porn after the DesNews ran this AP article on the flak Romney was taking: Mitt draws flak over Marriott porn: Critics say he should have opposed it while on board
Clean living? (Yeah, I'm sure he tithed on his porn profits to the Mormon church)
“Clean living” doesn’t encompass making a public scene pretending that a stranger is playing with their butt. We should all be glad for the plastic veneer around this poseur. This will be an escalating creep show on policy, personality and power abuse.