Romney, GOP are stuck in old America

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Romney, GOP are stuck in old America
By Bill Schneider

When GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney loses in November, Republicans will ask themselves, “How did this happen?” How did they blow their best opportunity to capture the White House since 1980?

They are likely to come up with the wrong answer. They will blame everything on the candidate.

That is certainly part of the answer but not all of it. Romney is the worst presidential nominee since Barry Goldwater and George McGovern. Don’t expect Romney’s vote to collapse to the 38 percent that both Goldwater and McGovern got, however. There are probably enough anti-Obama voters out there to keep Romney’s share of the vote above 45 percent. But not much above that.

Romney’s gaffes have exposed him as painfully out of touch with ordinary Americans. Things like, “Corporations are people” and “Ten thousand dollar bet?” and “My wife drives a couple of Cadillacs” and “I have some friends who are NASCAR team owners” and “I like being able to fire people.”

The latest revelations from a Florida fundraiser make things worse. They show Romney as not just out of touch but disdainful of ordinary Americans. He depicted half the country as moochers and parasites. He sounded like he was talking to the board of the country club. If President Bill Clinton is a political natural, Romney is a political doofus.

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Full two page article here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81569.html

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