Mitt Romney: An Excellent Politician
Today Mitt Romney took advantage of the foolishness of those in the media who have been trying to make his religion a negative issue he needs to deal with. Truth be told there is nothing Romney could say in a speech that would mollify those who won’t vote for a Mormon. Instead of even trying to defend himself from attacks on his faith he crafted a well written attack on the tiny minority of Americans who are aggresively anti-religious. He didn’t bother to defend Mormonism and he got a huge amount of publicity for a speech that nearly every Republican primary voter can identify with. The press and Romney’s opponents may continue to try to use his religion against him but that doesn’t change the fact that Romney made very good use of this issue today in his “JFK style” speech.
I’ve never argued that Romney isn’t a very shrewd politician…in fact…I won’t vote for him because I think he’s too shrewd by half.
7 Comments »
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI
Leave a comment
Line and paragraph breaks automatic, e-mail address never displayed, HTML allowed: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>
Nice post, I tend to agree with you here. It was a crafty move on Romney’s part. The media is handing him free campaign attention.
What bothered me most was the speech being touted so often as the “JFK Speech,” and then watching Romney slaughter the message JFK was trying to convey (”this is my faith, it won’t effect my politics”). Romney put many words in the founding father’s mouths I don’t think they would’ve agreed with.
It’s troublesome his faith has become an issue so vibrant it is distracting the nation from the simple, and still unreasoned-with fact that he is horribly dishonest and without principle.
Comment by jasonthe — December 6, 2007 @ 2:56 pm
You prefer stupid presidents?
Comment by Mick Stockinger — December 6, 2007 @ 5:24 pm
Jasonthe,
Thanks for the comment. Mitt is probably much better off when people focus on the meme that his main problem is his religion than he would be if the honesty issue had been made front and center. Mitt hasn’t yet found a policy position he wouldn’t be willing to change if he thought it would help his chances at getting elected. He’s a very smart but completely fake candidate.
Wow Mick…thats pretty classic coming from an unquestioning Bushophile like yourself!
Maybe slick would have been a better word than shrewd.
Comment by Jeremy Manning — December 7, 2007 @ 5:45 am
The ultimate winner in this presidential contest will have to be shrewd. To suggest that you would prefer a chief executive (and chief diplomat) who isn’t begs the question of how you would like to have this country run.
Comment by ATaylor — December 7, 2007 @ 10:22 am
A,
http://www.answers.com/topic/shrewd
Lets go with Definition 2.
Romney is cunning and tricky but he isn’t very trustworthy. I prefer the untrustworthy characters I encounter to not be as shrewd as Romney.
Is silly parsing of my vocabulary choice really the best response you and Mick can come up with?
Comment by Jeremy Manning — December 7, 2007 @ 12:03 pm
Personally, I’m having trouble finding any candidate that isn’t too shrewd for me. Hillary? Obama? Juliani? Nope.
Comment by cody — December 7, 2007 @ 9:21 pm
I think he’s shrewd when he has to be. But I think he’s also very very very much mormon, and I smile sometimes, listening to his turn of phrase and the slight mormon-brand naivete that colors some of his comments.
Comment by nosurfgirl — December 18, 2007 @ 7:33 pm