The Gathering Fall
It just occurred to me that the people who said Romney's announcement at the end of last week --that he would give "the speech" at the end of this week-- was politically brilliant because he would then "own the news" for a full week, are as out of touch with the American public as I believe Romney is.
Nobody cares.
What's the deal with "the speech" anyway? What's the issue? What's he going to address? What conflict is he going to resolve? "Nobody cares" in the sense that nobody has any idea why he's giving the speech now anyway. What's to speculate about? People don't like him, and they don't like his religion. So what's he going to do in his speech? Is he going to be likable, is he going to make his religion make sense?
I don't think there's any publicly framed issue to which he can respond. "Like me or I'll whip you." "Like my religion or you're a bigot."
This is not a way to win my vote. And I don't think there's anyone who fears he's going to be taking orders from some elder in the church, like his church has a pope. I think the queasiness about him is the thought that he might actually be a Mormon, Mormon to the core of his bones, and since he says that he is I don't see what he has to say. --These are the primaries. This isn't him or Hillary, Mormon or Socialist. There are other good guys, alternatives, right up beside him.
I've thought about it a bit and it seems to me that the only effective thing he could do is say: My religion is great, your religion is great, everybody's religion is great, why don't we just all get along? He could give a whole speech of ecumenical joy, --and what he would have achieved is one very long campaign spot. Everybody likes a feel good "love one another" message. It would be a hootenanny, positive, it might enable him to pull out Iowa, and with Iowa the slingshot. Maybe. But he would have taken his shot. There would be no future "the speech", and it's doubtful it would do much good long term. He would have opened up his beliefs as fair game for analysis --he's the one who brought it up-- and that isn't a religion that can withstand much sunlight.
The big problem anyway is just that he's a rotten candidate. He's unpleasant. He doesn't connect. It's my presumption that he doesn't connect because he doesn't trust me, and it shows. Every statement, every gesture, is an act. He distrusts me, an alien Christian; is wary of me, is constantly trying to fool me: "I like you, I'm just like you", which he knows every conscious moment is something he doesn't believe at all, and so his every act and sound and gesture is fake.
That's the sense I have. If it's a sense a lot of others have he's dead meat. I think the flies are gathering.
Note:
There's speculation it will be on "religious liberty" etc. That's a loser. He can have all the liberty he wants, and it's been granted him. Nobody now days persecutes a Mormon. He just can't have my vote. And if he calls me a bigot I'm going to send Mike Huckabee money.
Nobody cares.
What's the deal with "the speech" anyway? What's the issue? What's he going to address? What conflict is he going to resolve? "Nobody cares" in the sense that nobody has any idea why he's giving the speech now anyway. What's to speculate about? People don't like him, and they don't like his religion. So what's he going to do in his speech? Is he going to be likable, is he going to make his religion make sense?
I don't think there's any publicly framed issue to which he can respond. "Like me or I'll whip you." "Like my religion or you're a bigot."
This is not a way to win my vote. And I don't think there's anyone who fears he's going to be taking orders from some elder in the church, like his church has a pope. I think the queasiness about him is the thought that he might actually be a Mormon, Mormon to the core of his bones, and since he says that he is I don't see what he has to say. --These are the primaries. This isn't him or Hillary, Mormon or Socialist. There are other good guys, alternatives, right up beside him.
I've thought about it a bit and it seems to me that the only effective thing he could do is say: My religion is great, your religion is great, everybody's religion is great, why don't we just all get along? He could give a whole speech of ecumenical joy, --and what he would have achieved is one very long campaign spot. Everybody likes a feel good "love one another" message. It would be a hootenanny, positive, it might enable him to pull out Iowa, and with Iowa the slingshot. Maybe. But he would have taken his shot. There would be no future "the speech", and it's doubtful it would do much good long term. He would have opened up his beliefs as fair game for analysis --he's the one who brought it up-- and that isn't a religion that can withstand much sunlight.
The big problem anyway is just that he's a rotten candidate. He's unpleasant. He doesn't connect. It's my presumption that he doesn't connect because he doesn't trust me, and it shows. Every statement, every gesture, is an act. He distrusts me, an alien Christian; is wary of me, is constantly trying to fool me: "I like you, I'm just like you", which he knows every conscious moment is something he doesn't believe at all, and so his every act and sound and gesture is fake.
That's the sense I have. If it's a sense a lot of others have he's dead meat. I think the flies are gathering.
Note:
There's speculation it will be on "religious liberty" etc. That's a loser. He can have all the liberty he wants, and it's been granted him. Nobody now days persecutes a Mormon. He just can't have my vote. And if he calls me a bigot I'm going to send Mike Huckabee money.
posted by mouse at 7:21 PM
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