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gulliver

(13,142 posts)
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 08:34 PM Jan 2012

Does it seem to you like Romney is trying to do a Reagan impression?

I have heard Romney on the radio a few times, and it sure sounds like he is trying to sound like Reagan. Romney has the whispery thing down. And he uses the "Well" a lot too.

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Does it seem to you like Romney is trying to do a Reagan impression? (Original Post) gulliver Jan 2012 OP
Reagan had a very deep, powerful voice. Romney's voice is shrill and whiny. Drunken Irishman Jan 2012 #1
He tries to smile sweetly. Fails, of course! Quantess Jan 2012 #2
and if Romney is a bad actor Enrique Jan 2012 #4
You mean does he remind me of an old dead guy? NNN0LHI Jan 2012 #3
yeah but he totally sucks at it. stellanoir Jan 2012 #5
Romney is objectively attractive and a fairly good dresser, Quantess Jan 2012 #6
Reagan had charm and made people actually believe him Thrill Jan 2012 #7
He made SOME people believe him NNN0LHI Jan 2012 #8
I was thinking the same. He's trying to imitate Reagan suzanne.england Jan 2012 #9

Quantess

(27,630 posts)
2. He tries to smile sweetly. Fails, of course!
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 08:38 PM
Jan 2012

Reagan did have a sweet smile, for what it's worth.
If Reagan is what he's aiming for, Romney is a bad actor.

stellanoir

(14,881 posts)
5. yeah but he totally sucks at it.
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 09:17 PM
Jan 2012

so unbelievably stiff, thoroughly disingenuous, and entirely clueless.

Too bad his dad didn't invent the clamshell hamburger styrofoam container, or anything, like Huntsman.

He's even more stiff.



Quantess

(27,630 posts)
6. Romney is objectively attractive and a fairly good dresser,
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 09:53 PM
Jan 2012

but his inner ugliness radiates powerfully like a negative -1000 watt bulb

Thrill

(19,178 posts)
7. Reagan had charm and made people actually believe him
Thu Jan 19, 2012, 09:57 PM
Jan 2012

An actor who could make you think he was your best friend while he was banging your wife.

Mittens is a phony. And can't relate to normal people. He's a pompous stuck up rich guy.

NNN0LHI

(67,190 posts)
8. He made SOME people believe him
Fri Jan 20, 2012, 03:56 PM
Jan 2012

I never believed a word he said back then.

I knew he was a lying piece of shit first time I heard him.

Don't think I ever noticed the charm either.

Don

9. I was thinking the same. He's trying to imitate Reagan
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 03:25 PM
Jan 2012

I cannot stand to hear Romney's little boy, "I wouldn't harm a flea voice." It is particularly noticeable when he is dissembling but underneath he is seething. I finally realized that he thinks he sounds like Reagan. Reagan spoke by holding back on what he could easily have projected in his voice. Thus lulling some of his listeners into mistaking his acting for empathy and intimacy with them. Romney isn't holding back his supposedly powerful voice, he is working extremely hard to keep up his front. This is partly why he cannot connect with the frothing at the mouth Obama haters.

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