The truth about Mitt Romney

There seems to be a hundred different reasons why Republicans are not warming up to Mitt Romney. I have heard everything from him being a Mormon to his healthcare plan that supposedly inspired ObamaCare to he isn’t good with people one on one, A to Z there is a laundry list of reasons. But the real reason has nothing really to do with Mitt and everything to do with the crazy fringe of the Republican Party. They want to be tough guys so they want to elect a tough guy.

This element refuses to acknowledge science, facts, reason, or logic for any issue. They cheer for the death penalty, they scream for uninsured person to be left to die, and they boo gay soldiers fighting in Iraq. They want the tough guy persona in the White House. They want the president to mirror what they want to be. Go back to 2000 and why they loved George Bush, he was a cowboy from Texas that they would love to have a beer with. They ate up his talk about tracking down and killing terrorists, they loved the idea of Jack Bauer like tactics to extract information from suspected terrorist and did not care to hear from the experts that said those tactics do not work, and they loved him landing on the carrier in the flight suit. They want to imagine this guy grabbing a rifle and mowing down terrorists himself. It’s a huge fantasy.

In 2008, they largely ignored Mitt, they rushed to Rudy Giuliani, who talked about killing terrorists and was considered America’s Mayor. He was presented as an expert on terrorism despite the fact he was the mayor of the city that suffered the biggest terror attack in our country’s history. I could see had he been the mayor of the city that stopped the biggest terrorist attack in our country’s history that he could have those credentials, but he wasn’t so to act as an expert was ridiculous and his campaign soon crashed and burned.

Then they wanted Fred Thompson, TV cop and all around tough guy. He was going to swoop in and put some law and order on Obama. But once he opened his mouth and begin to talk he put the party to sleep. So instead of Mitt, they went with war hero John McCain and his maverick gimmick, despite the fact he didn’t run a very good campaign and was showing signs of dementia.

So that brings us to 2011, the party start doesn’t want Mitt. So they talk another tough guy, cowboy, rebel governor from Texas into the race. He says things like how they would treat Ben Bernanke poorly in Texas and the reasonable people think that he sounds ridiculous, but the crazies eat it up. But after only a few weeks, his act is wearing thin on everyone except the crazies so they want New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in the race. They look at him like he is the Republican Tony Soprano.

So a race that really should be a 2 man race between Mitt Romney and Ron Paul has been clouded by these insane people. So if Mitt wants to be president, he needs to stop with the who let the dogs out and start quoting some Johnny Cash. Mitt should come out talking about his gun collection and how he loves to shoot animals. Mitt should get some cowboy boots and maybe then the Republicans will warm up to him.