Moreover, and this is somewhat unfair to him, he physically, personality-wise, comes across as if he was designed by East German scientists to be the perfect android politician. And his answers come across that way.I still think Romney's failure to win this nomination, should he ultimately fail, is more about his weakness on health-care than anything else, including his stupendous lack of charisma. (I even understand the logic by which Republicans don't want to anoint as their standard-bearer to challenge Obama someone whose signature achievement is virtually identical to Obama's signature achievement.) But that's old news, and presumably doesn't account for much of the decline in his actual favorability ratings among Republican voters, as chronicled by PublicPolicyPolling. It's the whole "unpleasant" thing that accounts for that, I'd wager. This is incidentally a big part of why I was never scared of Romney as the general-election nominee as compared to Mike Huckabee, who manages to get even people who disagree with him on the majority of the issues to like him. Romney makes people who do agree with him dislike him. Now sure, Romney was a much, much stronger candidate than anyone else in the Republican field (*cackles*), but that's grading on a curve. Taking a more absolute view of things, Romney's been spotting Obama 9-10% of margin in recent state polling compared to the President's approval ratings. That's not a strong candidate, and the reason Romney's such an objectively weak candidate is that he's just plain unlikeable. I told you so.
Edit: the original title of this post was "Romney the Easy Germany Robot: I Told You So". Uhm, no. What would an easy German robot be, anyway?
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