"Why Romney is Unlikable"

A lot is being said in the media about Mitt Romney not being "likable" or that he doesn't "relate well" to people. Frankly, we struggled to understand why. So after much research, we have come up with a Top Ten List to explain this "unlikablility."

Top Ten Reasons To Dislike Mitt Romney:

1. Drop-dead, collar-ad handsome with gracious, statesmanlike aura. Looks like every central casting's #1 choice for Commander-in-Chief.

2. Been married to ONE woman his entire life, and has been faithful to her, including through her bouts with breast cancer and MS.

3. No scandals or skeletons in his closet. (How boring is that?)

4. Can't speak in a fake, southern, "black preacher voice" when necessary.

5. Highly intelligent. Graduated cum laude from both Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School...and by the way, his academic records are NOT sealed.

6. Doesn't smoke or drink alcohol, and has never done drugs, not even in the counter-culture age when he went to college. Too square for today's America ?

7. Represents an America of "yesterday", where people believed in God, went to Church, didn't screw around, worked hard, and became a SUCCESS!

8. Has a family of five great sons....and none of them have police records or are in drug rehab. But of course, they were raised by a stay-at-home mom, and that "choice" deserves America 's scorn.

9. Oh yes.....he's a MORMON. We need to be very afraid of that very strange religion that teaches its members to be clean-living, patriotic, fiscally conservative, charitable, self-reliant, and honest.

10. And one more point.....pundits say because of his wealth, he can't relate to ordinary Americans. I guess that's because he made that money HIMSELF.....as opposed to marrying it or inheriting it from Dad.

Apparently, he didn't understand that actually working at a job and earning your own money made you unrelatable to Americans. My goodness, it's a strange world, isn't it?

Personal Information:

His full Name is: Willard Mitt Romney

He was Born: March 12, 1947 and is 65 years old.

His Father: George W. Romney, former Governor of the State of Michigan

He was raised in Bloomfield Hills , Michigan

He is Married to Ann Romney since 1969; they have five children.

Education: B. A. from Brigham Young University , J. D. and M.B.A. from Harvard University.

Religion: Mormon - The Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints

Working Background: After high school, he spent 30 months in France as a Mormon missionary.

After going to both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School simultaneously, he passed the Michigan bar exam, but never worked as an attorney.

In 1984, he co-founded Bain Capital a private equity investment firm, one of the largest such firms in the United States .

In 1994, he ran for Senator of Massachusetts and lost to Ted Kennedy.

He was President and CEO of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games.

In 2002, he was elected Governor of the State of Massachusetts where he eliminated a 1.5 billion deficit.

Some Interesting Facts about Romney:

Bain Capital, starting with one small office supply store in Massachusetts, turned it into Staples; now over 2,000 stores employing
90,000 people.

Bain Capital also worked to perform the same kinds of business miracles again and again, with companies like Domino's, Sealy, Brookstone, Weather Channel, Burger King, Warner Music Group, Dollarama, Home Depot Supply and many others.

He was an unpaid volunteer campaign worker for his dad's gubernatorial campaign 1 year.

He was an unpaid intern in his dad's governor's office for eight years.

He was an unpaid bishop and state president of his church for ten years.

He was an unpaid President of the Salt Lake Olympic Committee for three years.

He took no salary and was the unpaid Governor of Massachusetts for four years.

He gave his entire inheritance from his father to charity.

Mitt Romney is one of the wealthiest self-made men in our country but has given more back to its citizens in terms of money, service and time than most men.

And in 2011 Mitt Romney gave over $4 million to charity, almost 19% of his income....

Just for comparison purposes, Obama gave 1% and Joe Biden gave $300 or 0.0013%.

Mitt Romney is Trustworthy:

He will show us his high school and college transcripts.

He will show us his social security card.

He will show us his law degree.

He will show us his draft notice.

He will show us his medical records.

Mitt Romney's background, experience and trustworthiness show him to be a great leader and an excellent citizen for President of the United States.

You may think that Romney may not be the best representative the Republicans could have selected. At least I know what religion he is, and that he won't desecrate the flag, bow down to foreign powers, or practice fiscal irresponsibility.

I know he has the ability to turn around this financial debacle that the current regime has gotten us into. We won't like all the things necessary to recover from this debt, but someone with Romney's background can do it.

But, on the minus side, he never was a "Community Organizer".

He never took drugs or smoked pot, never got drunk, did not associate with communists or terrorists, nor did he attend a church whose pastor called for God to (*)(*)(*)(*) the US .


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Wow, no wonder Romney is now leading Obama in likeability.

But then again, how long could an empty suit with no experience in the real world, outed as a complete fraud, leader of the most disastrous administration since Jimmy "Misery Index" Carter, continue to fool people with his vapid, empty speeches and "hope and change" fraud?

 

Wow, I feel 50 times better that last week I mailed in my vote for Willard Mitt Romney.

 

I voted for Obama in 2008 and I regret it. I'll definitely be voting for Romney for all of the reasons enumerated in the OP.

 

Two problems.

1. Romney very much did inherit it. These attempts to characterize Bain Capital as a "small business", or Ann Romney's ideas about poverty are so far removed from the experience of the working poor that it hurts. He went to prep school, he had stock options when he was 22, and he was able to afford tuition at Stanford out of pocket. He was given a car for his wedding gift from his parents. More here. This is not to diminish his accomplishments; he is a successful businessman who graduated from two incredibly prestigious colleges with great marks. But it directly opposes the idea that he was trying to push that he's "just like us", just starter, or harder-working. It doesn't diminish him, it simply removes the incredibly stupid idea of the Randian Superman from his head. He's not Galt, and that's not an insult, because John Galt is as much a fantasy as Bilbo Baggins.
2. Romney can't relate. Or at least, it seems very much like he can't. Things like seriously betting $10,000 as if it were nothing, having a car elevator, working in predatorial finance banking... It turns people off. It makes you unlikeable. Throw in statements like "I like to fire people", and, of course (slight paraphrase), "47% of the country will vote for Obama because they are moochers and will never vote to reduce their handouts" (Ahem. Ahem!), and you have a candidate who seems completely out of touch with the woes of the lower and middle class; one who, due to the silver spoon lodged firmly in his... mouth, has no idea what the poor and middle class have to go through in this country. And this makes for one incredibly unlikeable candidate.

And to top it all off:

Mitt Romney didn't work a typical job. He wasn't an inventor. He wasn't a laborer. He wasn't an artist. He was a bean-counter; someone who bought up companies, turned a profit, and sold them again. A job which is simultaneously incredibly insulated from failure due to the nature of the investments (he turned a profit even off of bankrupt businesses) and with which you are investing other people's money, in a field most people don't understand, but everyone blames for the recent financial crash... Yeah. That doesn't make you likeable. That makes you Gordon Gekko. I mean, if you wanted to figure out "what are the most hated Jobs in America", there are very few that go above what Romney does. Whatever the hell Saul Goodman's job in Breaking Bad could be called, maybe (Predatorial lawyer?)?

Well over a quarter of that went to the Mormon Church. I see this as a slightly less than positive development, much as if he had given a good 5% of his income to Exodus International.

Furthermore, Romney may be a model citizen, I won't deny that. Slightly out-of-touch, gives to known hate groups, but certainly a good man. But the problem is his policy. His budgetary policy, which doesn't add up. His foreign policy, which is more of the same American exceptionalism and arrogance that won us so many friends in the early 2000s (this is sarcasm, for those who can't tell). His tax policy which encourages a further redistribution of real wealth towards the top. His economic policy, which is not actually a policy so much as a list of end goals, none of which actually improves the economy the way he claims. His environmental policy, which is... well, non-existent.

Oh, and for the record? We know what Obama's religion is. -.-

 

I voted for Carter first time, even though I had been VP of the teen-age Republicans in high school a couple of years earlier. I voted for Reagan next time.

All is forgiven............................

 

The MSM hates him...no dirty laundry at all.

 

Great OP! That is the information the MSM has been trying to keep from the public. They wanted Romney to seem strange and untrustworthy. Since the debates began and people realized that he is not the monster that the MSM painted him to be, his popularity skyrocketed.

 

He wears a nice suit. Uh huh. Great.
Represents an America of yesterday? Uh huh. Here's some news, 'yesterday' is about as relevant as last week's newspaper.
Statesmanlike aura? This really made me nearly need a new keyboard! This 'aura' of pompous arrogance has already succeeded in pissing-off everyone in every foreign country he has visited.
You conservatives really know how to pick them.

 

If Romney's is "pissing-off everyone in every foreign country he has visited" that's all the more reason I'll vote for him.

 

Ah, a chain letter. Here'a a business tip...

If it looks to good to be true, it probably is...and this is glowing. It's like Romney porn or something. Yuck!!!

 

Uh huh, because America is totally isolated from the rest of the planet, and has no use whatsoever for a person with skills in international diplomacy. You're such a genius. I'm in awe.

 

Why not worry about your own blighted country before inserting your nose in someone else's business? Don't pretend to speak for "everyone in every foreign country" Romney has visited as you only speak for yourself and whatever contingent of alcoholic, on the dole, societal malcontents you associate with.

Shouldn't you be out wrestling your country back from some street Pakistani shishkabob purveyor?

 

Well, see here's the thing. America, and its domestic and foreign policy affects the entire planet. Your elections, and the effect the incumbent and his policies have on my country, are thus very much my business. If you want people to stop commenting then, by all means, lobby your representative to have America institute a policy of isolationism. Trust me, you wouldn't be missed.

 

We need a President who knows the difference between being liked by other countries and being respected, and that it is not about him but the country. Obama fails all around.

 

Then worry about any Romney policy that impacts your sinking country and leave the rest alone. Worry about David Cameron and not someone not even in office...yet!

 

You would prefer we not protect you and the rest of the free world then?

 

Unbelievable, the middle east is in a meltdown crisis, and you have the gull to talk about Obama as having great international diplomacy? You need to wake up snake, Obama and his admin allowed our Benghazi embassy to be burned to the ground, a second 9/11. How (*)(*)(*)(*)ing stupid does a person have to be to allow this to happen twice?

 

We would be missed.

You and your kind would be begging America to return in no time at all.

 

This has to be painful for the MSM because there is really not any smut for them to find to help their buddy, the President. The best they could come up is the "etch a sketch" because in reality Romney is such a good guy. I will be interested to see what the liars in the media will make up at the last minute. Will there be some Dan Rather moment where a fake memo is drafted using fonts that didn't even exist when the memo was supposedly drafted? The MSM are surely desperate to make something up and not get caught.

 

Protect us from whom? I don't see any threat we can't handle. We do, after all, have a nuclear deterrent.

 

Why, so you can involve us in more of your endless wars, ruin our economies and get our soldiers killed so your corporations can get even fatter? No thanks.

 

what a bunch of bs

people don't like romney because he's a liar and they don't trust him

also he walks like an old man

 

Probably the main reason he's not likeable? He is a liar. I think if he told the truth he'd be a much more likeable person. The media in this country hates liars and in most cases will go out of their way to publicize the lies spoken.