The real reason Mitt Romney is never going to get to be President Updated

Edited to add Newsweek's article on the same subject, Romney is a wimp

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/07/29/michael-tomasky-a-candidate-with-a-serious-wimp-problem.html



He is a coward.

His flip flopping isn't simply a sign of ambition and the need to be confirmed, it is fundamentally a confirmation of
one of the biggest cowards to ever run for President not simply taking popular positions but running away from tough ones.

He was for Vietnam, even as his father expressed doubts, he protested for it and took the cheap religious deferrment to France so that he wouldn't have to face bullets.

His choice of France was also an act of cowardice. Unlike the large number of Mormon boys who take an adventure to a third world country Romney hid out in one of the safest countries in Europe.

His choice of occupation meant that he could use his father's credentials to open doors for him. He avoided medicine or law where he would have to stand up make a decision and take the consequences for it.

And of course Gingrich's caddish behavior is nauseating and he is repulsive on many levels but Gingrich takes risks. Romney doesn't have the guts to go outside of the tracks that have been plowed for him. If it was the norm for him to have 2 wives or 3 then he would follow that course.

Santorum and Paul take bold positions that are going to be unpopular with someone and face the music.

Mitt Romney isn't just going to the left in MA and to the right in the primaries because he is calculating and tough, like Nixon, he is doing because he is supremely risk adverse.

Mitt Romney has never stood up and took an unpopular stance that would put him into conflict with his desired constituency because he doesn't have the guts to do so.

He didn't stand up for civil rights and fair treatment of gays. He doesn't stand up for the children of undocumented workers. He doesn't stand up for diplomacy or reason.

He won't stand up for science and even though he says 'golly gee' instead of 'fuck you' he won't really stand up to civility.

His idea of a bold position is to say that he likes the Star Spangled Banner.

Except those words were about a bunch of guys in Maryland who got bombed by the British at point blank range and despite a massive shelling refused to give up.

Republicans sense this cowardice. They sense that if he got a real call at 3:00 in the morning with conflicting advice he would convene another committee. He is running his campaign as he did his business, use overwhelming capital to get a strategic advantage and push your advantage. So even in the face of three of the worst candidates and the weakest fields ever assembled by a major party they can hardly bring themselves to give him a vote of confidence and stop the terminal fraticide.

Mitt Romney's problem isn't that he doesn't connect with real people.

Mitt Romney's real problem is that he doesn't have the guts to show the people who he really is. That's because deep down inside Mitt Romney knows that if the people could see the real Mitt Romney they would see a man stripped of courage.

And I challenge any Romney supporter to show a single act of personal courage on the political stage, let alone a pattern that shows that he has what it takes to make tough unpopular choices facing huge risks on an almost minute by minute basis that the President makes.

McCain turned down a chance that the North Vietnamese to save his life and end the agony of his broken body subjected to the harsh realities of the Hanoi Hilton. Mitt Romney would, of course never get there, but if he had he would recreate the famous scene of George Costanza knocking down the women and children running out of the birthday party when someone yelled 'fire' on his way out of Hanoi.

Mitt Romney is a coward.