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Requiem for a Romney

By js

Robert Reich, getting it right months ago:

If good looks, white teeth, and smooth talking were the sole criteria for becoming president (they?re not unimportant), he?d win hands down. But Romney is cursed by having a father who ran for president. Candidates whose fathers have harbored presidential ambitions are handicapped because such candidates do not run for themselves; they run for their fathers. They therefore have identity problems. They will say almost anything to become president. Voters inherently distrust them. This was Gore?s problem in 2000 (Gore would have won with enough votes to give him an electoral majority had he known himself better; but Gore was running to fulfill the ambitions of his politically-ambitious father). Romney will lose the primary because he does not know why he is running.

Full post as published by Expressio Unius on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).