You'd think that anyone who has run for president for the last six years would know something about how to talk to voters of all kinds.
Not Mitt Romney. Not even to a hand-picked group of voters in Pennsylvania.
On his show last night, Ed Schultz showed a segment of such a meeting Romney had. The only responses Romney could come up with was um-hum and things similar.
He had nothing else to say beyond that.
He had plenty to say to wealthy donors earlier this week about where he wanted to take the country during the next four years. When he came before this group of hand-picked folks in Pennsylvania, Romney couldn't say a word.
It's bad enough that Romney, the candidate of, by, and for the 1 percent at the expense of everyone else, can't stand up to the nuts of his party like Ted Nugent and Rush Limbaugh. It's also bad enough that his campaign has been forced to compare his irresponsible decisions as an adult on transporting his dog to those of an 8-year-old regardless of who it was.
He can speak complete sentences to his donors and softball-lobbing questioners like Larry Kudlow of CNBC. But when ordinary folks talk to him, he can't say a word?
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Here's the segment from Ed Schultz's show last night.
I can't believe even Thurston Howell III could have been THIS clueless talking to average folks. It's amazing that the media is asking that we give his candidacy serious consideration after this.
He can't stand up to nuts like Limbaugh or Nugent. How can we trust him to stand up to world nut cases like Ahmandinijad?
He can't say a word to average folks asking him about their concerns. How can we trust him to address our concerns while president.
Playing the game of "I'm rubber, you're glue" won't wash with voters. Playing the role of coward when it comes to dealing with his party's nuts won't cut it either.
Mitt Romney doesn't deserve serious consideration as a presidential candidate, and it's time the media stop playing games and tell it like it is rather what their GOP sources tell them to say.
The public interest deserves nothing less.