Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, announced his campaign for the Presidency yesterday. In typical Mitt fashion, the announcement for a new political office took place in a place where he doesn't really have residence, this time it was Michigan.
The last time he made an announcement for political office it was for governor of Massachusetts and he had some early issues just establishing that he actually lived in the state enough to qualify as a candidate. But the desperate MA Republicans managed to pull some strings and Mitt became governor.
As governor Mitt's stint in office was symbolized mainly by how quickly the voting public in MA grew to dislike Mitt in just the few years he was actually there before he started running for president. He ran on a campaign, similar to the one he just announced, as the outsider coming in to "clean house" in a situation of disarray. Of course, being an outsider he had practically no idea what he was doing as governor in terms of solving problems, but he did have an excellent idea (in typical fly-by-night-CEO-fashion) on how to make his term "appear" to look successful long enough to make the switch to the next company or office.
This is similar to Mitt's prior experience where he showed up to "clean house" at the incredibly scandalous Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, where otherwise god-fearing Mormons suddenly threw caution to the wind and bribed their way to hosting the Winter Olympics.(remember those heady days?) Although he was credited with "saving" the Olympics, in my opinion if anyone who wasn't associated with the scandal had showed up they would have gotten the Olympics off the ground.
So watch out for this next version of Romney, the "outsider" who shows up to clean house. If there's anything we don't need right now, it's another businessman type (see: Bush MBA) to come in and "fix" the mess. We need someone who does actually understand that politics takes hard work, not slogans, false records of achievement, or impressive haircuts.