re: #102 kirkspencer

I agree, yet I think at core Romney’s problems were pretty much the same as Kerry’s.

He isn’t, wasn’t, a politician. He wasn’t comfortable with people. We’ve had presidents who could be that way - starting with John Q Adams - but in these days it’s pretty much a non-starter. It was part of Gore’s problem (and Lieberman was no help). If Ryan runs in 2016 it’ll be a problem for him.

We want to think, to believe, that this person we’re putting in charge will listen to us.

What we want to believe is that the president is a guy who’s like us, who listens to us and understands what we’re going through. Romney wasn’t that kinda guy by any measure of the imagination. Even the pictures of him rubbing shoulders with the unwashed masses made him look uncomfortable, with that plastic grin that says “Let’s just get this over with.”