Category: US President

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Mitt Romney’s Mormonism May Kill Him

(BrightCitizen.com)  Is America ready for a Mormon President?  We at BrightCitizen believe that Mitt Romney has to do a lot of convincing to get the evangelical Christians on his side.  Jack Welch the former CEO of General Electric said in a recent interview,

Look, it’s hardly a secret that we support former Governor Romney. He is, in our view, the most qualified and electable Republican candidate left in the race.

But we‘re concerned that Romney is not facing reality the way it is – which is that his religion is going to become a major issue. In fact, we can imagine that come the general election, Romney’s taxes and his years at Bain will be background noise and the foreground roar will be all about Mormonism.

And why wouldn’t it be? His religion was an issue last time Romney ran for national office, and America’s large bloc of vocal Evangelical Christians, which any Republican candidate will need to win the White House, has clearly signaled once again that Mormonism is an area of deep concern. And yet, even with that evident reality, it appears this is Romney’s Kodak Moment. He’s hoping and waiting.

Hoping and waiting is not a winning strategy.

You can read the whole article and see the interview here.  But the point is, Mitt Romney tends to hope things just go away as he did when there were calls to release his taxes and he scoffed.

 

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Newt Gingrich Defeats Mitt Romney in South Carolina US Presidential Primary

(BrightCitizen.com)  Many Americans voiced their pleasure in the defeat of Mitt Romney in South Carolina by Newt Gingrich.  This creates a situation where the GOP candidate is still up in the air.  Mitt Romney with all his cash has not been able to tie up the nomination with all his attack advertising.  Check out the video here.

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ABC News Attack On Newt Gingrich Just Didn’t Work

(BrightCitizen.com) ABC News strategically aired an interview they did with Newt Gingrich’s second wife in hopes of taking down the former congressman a day before a big vote in South Carolina.  Many think that taking Gingrich our of the race will increase Obama’s chances of winning if it is just a battle of the apparently ‘boring’ candidates Obama and Romney for president this year.

Of course, most people can read the motivation of interview.  Again, this is an example of ABC News trying to influence the presidential GOP race.  A great way to show ABC what you think is by not watching their programs or visiting their website.  Fewer views equal less advertising funds from companies.

How did people take this underhanded attack?  One commenter on a news site said,

“I don’t care what Newt did the last 12 years of his life.  As long as he can fix what the current occupant of the Whitehouse did the last 3.5 years.   Enough of Obama”

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Rick Santorum Defeats Mitt Romney In Iowa US Presidential Primary

It’s official. Congratulations to Rick Santorum for beating Mitt Romney in the Iowa US Presidential.  Read more here.

Oops! Turns out Rick Santorum beat Mitt Romney in Iowa. Does it matter?

A new vote tally shows Rick Santorum won the Iowa caucuses by 34 votes over runner-up Mitt Romney. But aside from bragging rights, the shift in results is unlikely to affect the GOP race.

Now probably time for Mr. Santorum to retire and get behind Newt Gingrich.  Mitt Romney is just not good enough.

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Jon Huntsman Withdraws From The US GOP Presidential Race, Why Did He Bother?

(BrightCitizen.com)  Jon Huntsman Withdraws From The US GOP Presidential Race, but does it really matter?  He decided to endorse Mitt Romney as the most electable to beat Barak Obama on the democratic party side.  Is anyone surprised?

Why was Jon Huntsman even running for President?  Was it really to win, or was it for some other reason?  Clearly he was never a serious contender to anyone but the left-wing media outlets.  He didn’t seriously campaign in Iowa but focused on New Hampshire.  A bit strange strategy for anyone following politics.  Why did he run? Being the son a rich industrialist in Utah, Huntsman has no money issues personally.  Some of the reasons why Huntsman may have run is to-

  • Somehow make the Mormon based candidates more easily acceptable to the majority of evangelical Christians in the US by being a second Mormon candidate to run.
  • Get his name in the hat for future runs at political office and build name recognition for himself.
  • To somehow get himself in a position to be selected as VP candidate or some other position in a new Republican administration

With time, we’ll get a better idea of why Jon Huntsman even bothered to run for President.  He never really had a chance.  Besides that, we’ll never forget his nerdy answer to what he would take to the Whitehouse if he were elected President.  While other candidates were talking about their wives, Jon Huntsman replied, “I would take my Harley Davidson”.

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8 Reasons Why Mitt Romney Can’t Be The GOP Candidate And Beat Obama

(BrightCitizen.com) Here are eight reasons why conservatives placing their bets on the Mitt Romney campaign (or Mitt Inc) for the US presidential candidate will likely make the 2012 elections a fruitless campaign for Republicans.
  1. He is viewed as a chameleon on issues, changing to what side he sees he can get more votes (much like Obama).
  2. He is the 1%.  He has multi-millions of dollars that comes in monthly that makes him the natural ‘Occupy Wallstreet’ target.
  3. He seems disconnected with the majority of Americans.  This makes it hard for anyone to get excited about him.
  4. He’s outright mean acting in debates with the other candidates and even in interview with supportive news organizations responding to reasonable questions.
  5. He’s been running for offices too long.  He ran and lost in Massachusetts for senator, then for US president on the last cycle.
  6. He comes across as plastic, the Ken married to Barbie.  Americans are less than plastic and want someone who can relate to them.
  7. He has no true international experience, despite US business experience.
  8. He produces and promotes (directly and indirectly) false advertising misquoting both his political enemy (Obama) as well as other candidates.

Basically, Mitt Romney would be a ‘boring’ candidate for the US elections.  He would not stir the electorate as we have seen already no real zeal behind him in the polls despite some endorsements.  Some politicians have endorsed him thinking there is no other choice, but they should probably look again.    With Mitt we just have another John McCain type candidate.

There is one other issue that people don’t want to talk about for fear of political correctness that will likely hurt Mitt Inc.  It is really Mitt Romney’s political Achilles heel.

Many American’s identify themselves as ‘Christian’ and have branded the Mormon church as a ‘cult’ for decades. It may be difficult for him to garner their support.  Barak Obama professes to be a Christian but acts as an agnostic as we have seen from his actions denying national days of prayer and doing nothing to show any true sense of spirituality.

Most committed Christians knows Obama is a political Christian, just looking to pick up the votes of the cultural Christians who make up a large group in the US.  Mitt may not have that same pleasure.  We have already seen splintered support from Evangelicals go to Bachmann and Santorum (who have no chance of winning) over throwing their support behind Mitt. This is despite many Christian leaders saying they could vote for a Mormon (in case he secures the nomination).

If Mitt Romney wins the Republican nomination, we believe Obama’s chances of winning another 4 years have just increased.  Apparently, so do others.

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Who Does Barak Obama Want To Run Against Gingrich Or Romney?

An excellent opinion piece came out by Gregg Easterbrook on Reuters contrasting which candidate Obama has a better chance beating.  You can read the article here, but the summary is excellent.  Romney would be a wash and nothing for Republicans to rally behind.  Romney, he is the 1%.  Quoting-

That may not be a fair charge, but it is a powerful one, with which Obama could pillory Romney. There is a clear political playbook to use against Romney.

This especially matters to the youth-vote/youth-volunteer equation. The young voters who enthusiastically supported Obama in 2008 now seem more turned off by him. But if 2012 pits Obama versus Mr. One Percent, young voters might get excited again. Obama would be offering them a chance to defeat Wall Street, at least symbolically.

Whatever other failings he may have, Romney has always comported himself with dignity. An Obama-Romney contest would be the kind of decorous, high-minded campaign at which the president excels. In an Obama-Gingrich race, practically anything could happen.

So forget the polls. If I am Barack Obama, I want to run against Mitt Romney.

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Has Mitt Romney Got The Guts To Accept Gingrich’s Challenge?

(BrightCitizen.com)  Most people see Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich spending millions of dollars going negative on advertisements attacking Newt Gingrich.  Gingrich keeps reaffirming that he refuses to go negative and attack fellow republicans accept to counter the accusations.

However, today on a radio program in Iowa Gingrich threw down the glove and challenged Mitt to a debate to address the issues that his campaign and the super PAC of his former staffers are running to try to smear Mr. Gingrich.

Will Mitt be a chameleon and try to hide behind the ‘I kind control what these groups are saying’, or will he be a man of integrity and try to seriously address the issue?  Will soon see.  If he continues as is, it will be obvious Romney is not fit for the office of president when the hard times come.  He would only be doing what Barak Obama does so frequently which Romney constantly condemns, the “Blame Game”.