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J.D. Longstreet | May 27, 2011 Has Romney Been Chosen To Lose To Obama? It is becoming clear (at least to me) that Mitt Romney will be the GOPs choice to lose to Obama in November of 2012. OK, before you blast me for speaking ill of another republican (In the spirit of full disclosure I AM a republican.) if you havent already figured it out I do not care for Mitt Romney, as a candidate for President of the United States. Its not a big stretch for me as I also did not care for his father, George Romney, when HE ran for President way back in 1968 right up til he dropped out of the Primary in late February, or early March. Two weeks before the March 12 primary, an internal poll showed Romney losing to Nixon by a six-to-one margin in New Hampshire. Rockefeller, seeing the poll result as well, publicly maintained his support for Romney but said he would be available for a draft; the statement made national headlines and embittered Romney (who would later claim it was Rockefeller's entry, and not the "brainwashing" remark, that doomed him). Seeing his cause was hopeless, Romney announced his withdrawal as a presidential candidate on February 28, 1968. Romney wrote his son Mitt, still away on missionary work: "Your mother and I are not personally distressed. As a matter of fact, we are relieved. ... I aspired, and though I achieved not, I am satisfied." <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney> (SOURCE) The brainwashing remark referenced above in my opinion, underscores the old adage: Like father; like son. Mitts father, George, had problems with flip-flopping just as his son does today. It cost him any chance he might have had at winning the GOP nomination for President. Heres what happened: On August 31, 1967, in a taped interview with talk show host Lou Gordon of <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKBD-TV> WKBD-TV in Detroit, Romney stated: "When I came back from Viet Nam [in November 1965], I'd just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get." He then shifted to opposing the war: "I no longer believe that it was necessary for us to get involved in South Vietnam to stop Communist aggression in Southeast Asia." Decrying the "tragic" conflict, he urged "a sound peace in South Vietnam at an early time." Thus Romney disavowed the war and reversed himself from his earlier stated belief that the war was "morally right and necessary. Eight other governors who had been on the same 1965 trip as Romney said no such activity had taken place, with one of them, Philip H. Hoff of Vermont, saying Romney's remarks were "outrageous, kind of stinking ... Either he's a most naïve man or he lacks judgment." The connotations of brainwashing, following the experiences of American prisoners of war (highlighted by the 1962 film <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manchurian_Candidate_(1962_film)> The Manchurian Candidate), made Romney's comments devastating, especially as it reinforced the negative image of Romney's abilities that had already developed. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney> (SOURCE) (As a side note: Mitts father, George Romney was born in Mexico. Yet, George Romney was a candidate for President of the United States in the primary in 1968. He was born on July 8, 1907 to American parents in the <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_colonies_in_Mexico> Mormon colonies in Mexico; events during the Mexican Revolution forced his family to move back to the United States when he was a child.) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Romney> (SOURCE) Now, I realize all this dates me and thats OK. If it has any importance, at all, it is that I feel as though I have been down the same road with Mitt Romneys father, George, and I do not care to travel that same hilly, curvy road again. Then Governor Jim Rhodes of Ohio said, "Watching George Romney run for the presidency was like watching a duck try to make love to a football." As difficult as it may seem to believe, for those who did not witness George Romneys campaign back in the sixties, for those of us who did -- there is reason to believe the campaign of his son Mitt will not be that different. We need an assertive candidate, a candidate sure of himself, without a record of flip-flopping all over the map. I just do not see that in Mitt Romney. Here in the South, the mention of Romneys name tends to bring on rolling of the eyes. He is a northeasterner, and a Mormon. That is two out of three strikes for him before the first vote is cast. If he ever gets to the Oval Office he will do so without the support of the majority of the southern states. THAT is a near impossible. A number of religious denominations in the south will never vote for a Mormon under any circumstances the human brain can devise. His campaign will be hard pressed to devise a winning strategy without the southern states. I understand how difficult this is to read for Romney supporters, but there it is. So, who can win against Obama? None of the republican candidate announced, so far. But, I think it is interesting, and important, that the Obama campaign has begun digging into the past of Chris Christie, the current governor of New Jersey, and Christie says he is NOT going to run. But if Obama is concerned enough that Christie might change his mind and run, anyway, then that tells me the Obama campaign fears Chris Christie and I LIKE THAT! 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