Final Thoughts on Mitt Romney and the Forty Seven Percent

Mitt Romney made some appearances in public last week. In this age of cell phones and social media when Mitt Romney pumps his own gas it is news. A trip to Disneyland is an even bigger occurrence. I do not know who was with Mitt at Disneyland but the pictures of him on a couple of the rides all by himself struck me as a little sad. Maybe Ann does not like rides but if a picture could show how irrelevant losing candidates can be just two weeks later Mitt Romney sitting alone on the Matterhorn might be the one.

Romney should be given a pass on some of the comments he made right after the election. Disappointment and frustration make losing athletes, losers of all types, and certainly losing Presidential candidates say things they would like to take back.

Does Mitt Romney understand how the average middle class family lives? No it would seem not. When Mitt Romney spoke infamously of the 47 percent did he mean veterans, retirees and the like. No it seems likely he did not. Romney speaking before and after the election spoke clumsily and ungracefully about those that might vote for Obama because of gifts or handouts. He was not wrong. For example I am disabled and certainly without those checks we would be in a tough position. I have not written in a week as my hands have not been working. Being disabled is not fun. Most do not see you at your worst, they see you on your best days and then make false assumptions. Mitt Romney simply does not understand the daily struggles of people.

Does it make him a bad person. Of course not. My guess is that on a single person to person level he is probably one of the most generous people you would meet. It is for him, like many of us, easy to make generalities about people in faceless statistics. In the end I give Romney a pass, I do not think he would have been as terrible a President as we feared but I do think he was the wrong choice. There has to be a bit of karma or whatever you choose to call it in the fact that this weekend it became finally confirmed that Romney's vote total will sink into the 47 percent number. It does not make him a bad man, it makes him a not strong candidate, but it is hard to see that number and not think that it is some kind of higher power postulation on his divisive comments.