Mitt Romney is a Mormon. This single fact alone means that around 20% of the eligible voters of the United States of America won’t vote for Mr Romney in a presidential election. Mitt Romney’s real name is Willard. It isn’t documented how many voters wouldn’t choose a man whose name was Willard for president, but there must be some.
Mitt Romney has flaws. The first is that he is extremely competent and judging from the last 7 years of leadership, this could prove fatal in his campaign to become president. He has actually had to ‘work’ for a living, investing in start-up businesses and helping them expand. He salvaged the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics from the mire it found itself in. He helped build Staples into the thriving business it is today.
The second flaw is that Mr Romney actually thinks about ‘the issues’ and sometimes dares ‘to change his mind’. How terrible this is. It is far better to have a knee-jerk reaction, invade a foreign country for a made up reason, and then have your forces stay in that country even when public opinion is against you and your soldiers are dying on a regular basis. Because Mr Romney changes his mind, he is accused of ‘flip-flopping’ on important issues. But this overlooks an important fact; that Mr Romney does think. How much inspirational thinking has there been in the White House since 2001?
Mr Romney’s third flaw is that he has been married once and has only ever had one wife, his high-school sweetheart, which some Americans won’t be able to understand, given that he is a Mormon. Other Republican hopefuls such as Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich have been married three times.
After his rescue of the 2002 Winter Olympics, Mitt Romney became governor of Massachusetts later that year and his biggest achievement during his tenure was to make health insurance compulsory, a scheme that came into effect on July 1st, 2007. If Mitt wins the Presidency, he’d like to see all states experiment with similar schemes.
As any one who has seen Michael Moore’s latest film Sicko will know, 50 million people don’t have health insurance in the United States of America, where it can cost $60,000 just to have the top of your middle finger sown back on in a hospital. It would be interesting to see how Mr Romney would fare in a health care debate against the Democratic candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, given Mrs Clinton’s doomed attempt at introducing universal health care in the mid 1990’s.
Finally, Mitt Romney has many things going for him. He is tall and handsome, and looks like a President. He answers questions intelligently and comes across well, so well in fact that the approval rating amongst so called moderate voters for his live performances on television is around 90%, an incredibly high figure for a man that few people had heard of at the beginning of the year. Don’t be too surprised if he causes a few shocks in the polls before the Presidential race is over.