Running the risk of being flamed, but you’re right. The working mothers, the ones who base everything on appearance won’t vote for Newt. They didn’t vote for McCain, either. Newt will look like a short fat guy standing there next to Obama. It’s just the facts. I wish it wasn’t the case, but this country is FULL of people who vote based on appearance of the person alone, not their convictions, stands or anything else. I’m not sure they’ll vote for Romney, either and I believe the RNC made a huge mistake by not inventing a rock star for this election. I’m really not hopeful about the presidential election, between the republicans who claim they’ll stay home if Romney is the nominee and those who I know won’t vote for Newt because he’ll look like the short fat guy next to Obama.........I don’t know, maybe the focus should just be on the senate. But then, I live in a state where a very conservative senator was voted out of office for a democrat who led people to believe he was anti abortion, so, maybe there isn’t hope.
I live in PA too and have Democrats in my family. They think all the Republican candidates are jokes except Newt. They value intelligence and always say he is by far the smartest of the bunch. They say as long as his policies sound good in the general election, they’ll vote for him over Obama.
Incisive commentary. In presidential elections, it really does come down to who has the best image and this has basically held true since Kennedy/Nixon in 1960. This is why Mike Dukakis wore elevator shoes and asked for a step to be built into his podium in the 1988 campaign (so he would appear to be as tall as Bush). It all sounds so superficial but this is the environment that we must operate in.