"Would the real Mitt Romney please stand up?"

Good Day Readers:

A fascinating read well-researched and written. Based on the information provided here's the picture that emerged of Mitt Romney should be become President:

- traditionalist
- religiously inconsistent
- wife will have huge impact on decision making in the White House
- coldly clinical approach to problem solving
- emotion free crisis management
- will always be the star everyone else a bit player
- very friendly but only on the surface
- detached, aloof
- abstainer
- anti abortion
- rigid
- organized to a fault
- deeply risk averse

If American, heaven forbid, based on the foregoing we'd vote for Barack Obama.

However, as we read the article couldn't help but think of Stephen Harper at least in one respect. It took him 3-attempts to get a majority government at least in part because of an underlying mistrust by the electorate coupled with fear that a hidden agenda lurked in the shadows. In Mitt Romney's case, he's starting to be called "the 25% man" because he hasn't broken through that barrier in his quest for the Republican nomination something he should have accomplished long before now given the weak field of candidates.

Sincerely,
Clare L. Pieuk
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February 2012

The Meaning of Mitt

Mitt Romney has long been a front-runner for the G.O.P. nomination—even if no one really knows who he is. Digging into the candidate’s record as a Mormon leader, his business deals at Bain Capital, and that infamous car trip with the family dog strapped to the roof, Michael Kranish and Scott Helman pierce the Mitt bubble in an adaptation from their new book, The Real Romney, to find that the contradictions, question marks, and ambivalence go deeper than his politics.

By Michael Kranish and Scott Helman Illustration by André Carrilho

THE 1 PERCENT SOLUTION “He has that invisible wall between ‘me’ and ‘you,’” says a fellow Republican.

Adapted from The Real Romney, by Michael Kranish and Scott Helman, to be published this month by HarperCollins; © 2012 by The Boston Globe.

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/02/mitt-romney-201202