re: #574 TedStriker

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 GOP partisans.

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.

You hear these stories coming from the individuals who Romney helped. There are a lot out there, but the media is not interested in them. I’m an atheist, so I think most religion is kooky—and the Morman faith just seems even more kooky than most to me. But Romney served as a Bishop for his church, counseled many members, used his personal wealth to help numerous people. All of this he refuses to talk about in part due to his belief that this is just part of leading a good life and bragging about it would be wrong. According to the father, that missing daughter would have died without Romney—she was found after a drug overdose and in need of medical care. And then there’s the time that Mitt saved a drowning family (and their dog, afterward no doubt put on a car roof somewhere).