Mitt Romney : Clown Candidate

So now we are left with this Mitt Romney. And not just us in the center are left with this Mitt Romney but our friends the Republicans are left with him. Let us be clear, a great deal, the great majority of Republicans, are good people who just have a slightly different belief system than me. A great deal of these Republicans had concerns about Mitt Romney. They questioned his Conservatism from the beginning.

Still, the clown show the Republicans paraded around this spring made his nomination inevitable and for the last few months Republicans have dutifully tried to get excited about the possibility of a President Romney.

We, who are not Republicans, usually talk about the Koch Brothers and the other evil figureheads of the Republican party but most Republicans are just like you and me. These are the people right now who are realizing that they bought a pig in a poke as the saying goes.

Can you imagine how a Missouri schoolteacher, who goes to church each Sunday, raises three kids on a middle class salary feels about this Presidential candidate who has Swiss Bank Accounts, Cayman Island Accounts, a Car Elevator, Dancing Horses, and refuses to release his tax returns. Do you think they feel good about this. How can they? They may not like Obama, and in fact surely do not, but is this what they envisioned when they tried to line up behind the Mittster.

If your claim to be President is that you ran a successful business what does it mean when much of that company's success was based on gutting businesses, reducing wages and benefits, and in many cases actual employees, outsourcing jobs, and on and on it goes. Then you find out that Romney was still listed as the owner of the company three years, at least, after he claimed he was no longer in control. When questioned about this Romney says that we do not understand business. Evidently only the Mittster is intelligent enough to understand his deviousness.

Throw this all together with his seeming refusal to release his tax returns and it is clear that Mr. Romney is hiding something. This man has been running for President for six years, why would he not get his finances cleaned up enough for public perusal. It is hard to understand and yet he clearly has not. Perhaps he never thought he would have to release them, but if that is so clearly he is not cognizant of history.

The President is a flawed candidate and is easily beatable. However, let us be clear, if Romney blows this opportunity for the Republicans he will go down as their version of Mike Dukakis.

Actually upon review there is quite a bit of similarity between these two. Claiming that their success in Massachusetts will transfer nationally, both cold and emotionless, and clearly tone deaf to the American public, Romney and Dukakis have more in common than our Midwestern Republican friends would like to think about.

This is always the fissure in the Republican party. The moderate easterners and the conservatives from the West and Midwest.

Romney could still win, as this might well be a referendum on Obama as much as Romney but he is a terrible candidate. When The National Review and George Will state that your actions regarding your tax returns are giving the appearance of secretiveness and malfeasance then you have a problem.

Mitt Romney has a problem. My kids know I am really frustrated when I call someone a clown. It is my bad adjective. Mitt Romney is a clown.