re: #565 BryanS

There are a number of unhyped stories of tremendous empathy coming from Romney, but Romney doesn’t push them. I cited one above—where he shut his company down and marshaled the entire resources of Bain to find a missing daughter of one of his board members.

I’ve not seen that, but if so, that’s pretty damn awesome; however, what I’m getting at is the voters’ perception of who he really is and what makes him tick. So far, he’s failing miserably with people that aren’t hardcore GOP partisans, those who are willing to accept a seemingly flawed candidate if it means that the party gets more political power.

In politics, especially in a high-stakes race for the presidency of the United States, voter perception is everything; like John Kerry before him, the perception that he’s an out-of-touch elitist may very well sink him in the general, because many people don’t get that “he’s one of us” vibe from him, right or wrong.

For those of us that deal in hard, cold facts, what Romney is touting as his qualifications and his retconning of his own history is what’s more damning.