Why Isn’t Romney Winning (Part 2)

Republican talking heads are seemingly upset with Mitt Romney’s position in the various polls.  They are asking why he isn’t winning.  One pundit went so dar as to say that considering the present economic situation, if Romney fails to defeat Obama the Republican Party should shut their doors.  What no one is saying, however, is there are obvious reasons Romney is in trouble.  To start with, he claims to be a Republican at a time when Republicans in both federal and state government have done nothing, REPEAT, NOTHING to affect economic improvement.  Federal and state Republican legislators have alienated minorities, Latinos, women, and virtually every other voting block with the exception of rich, white men.  Perhaps someone needs to explain that there are not enough rich, white men able to vote and win elections.  While rich, white men can contribute millions, if not billions to political campaigns, between the Koch brothers, Sheldon Adelson, and Foster Fries, Romney can only count on four votes.  Dollars do not elect presidents and do not respond to opinion polls.  Romney is not winning because not enough American voters (as opposed to campaign contributors) feel he is of presidential material.  Romney has yet to hold a position on any issue longer than a month.  In addition to his flipping and flopping, his primary campaign was plagued with misstatements and untruths which are again coming to the surface once the Obama campaign has had the opportunity to put forth correct information.  Finally, there is the Tea Party, a group of obstructionists who have offered no solutions to economic problems other than cutting spending.  Unfortunately, the spending cuts they offer will adversely affect far more voters than will benefit from those cuts so one can look to the Tea Party Congressional delegation for turning away possible Romney voters.  When all is said, however, Romney is not winning because every he says and does looks like a return to the Bush years and it was the Bush years that brought down the economy and caused all of the problems Romney claims to be able to fix.  Unfortunately all of his fixes scream more of the same and a return to the path that brought down the economy to begin with (except for the top 10% of Americans who have prospered from the economic disaster called the Bush Administration.)