Yesterday it was widely reported that GOP candidate Mitt Romney gave a speech saying he saw his father march with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Apparently, the only people who ‘saw’ or ‘experienced’ it was Mitt Romney. He later explained it was some kind of illiterate use of the verb to see or to witness an experience. It really reminds me of the 2004 US presidential election when John Kerry would make reference to his Christmas spent in Cambodia. He too, used some kind of high fangled mangling of seeing or witnessing a past non-experience/event.
The problem with Mitt Romney is that he is the Republican John Kerry. He even has the same kind of hair. On paper, Mitt Romney seems like the ideal GOP candidate, and yet, he fails to light any fires with the Republican base despite a whole string of endorsements from the elite of the Republican vanguard. His staunch republican stances get a little flip-floppy when it comes to the bread and butter issues of social conservatism - like abortion or gay marriage, and that same flip-floppiness reeks of exactly what we have come to expect from liberal politicians from Massachusetts. Frankly, it unnerves or alienates most of the base.
The problem of Mitt Romney is one of passive aggressive credibility. He will say whatever you want to hear, and later do exactly what he pleases, and if you call him to task on it; he’ll issue a platitude about the prerogative of changing his mind which is designed to show off or highlight his resolute powers of mental flexibility.
All I really need to know now about Mitt Romney is whether Dr. King gave him a hat?
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