Why Mitt Romney is Unlikable

I had originally gotten this from my father, who had gotten this via email. Some things to think about for sure. I'm going to make some personal comments in red bold

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, statesman like aura. Looks like every central casting's #1 choice for Commander-in-Chief.


He also doesn't come off as being aloof, unlike Obama who always looks aloof in his pictures.


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


And what gets me about this is the left bashes and berates both of them concerning Mrs. Romney's treatments for her MS. Imagine the backlash that would occur if a conservative said the same things about a liberal.


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


This is another thing that gets me. Everyone's so interested in the dirt on others that (espically in politics) the real message gets lost in all the extra BS we're bombarded with.


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


Can I get a amen!?!?


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.


So this means we all know that he's been to school and what kind of grades he got unlike Obama who claims to have gone to some very prestigious colleges, yet no one remembers him during the years he claims to have gone to college. Well... that and the simple fact that Obama refuses to show his records.


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?


Too square for Obama for sure who at least admitted that he did some drugs in his youth.


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


My father was talking to my wife (who is from the Philippines) one day about this. He told her that when we used to envy the successfully in this country, we did so asking exactly what they did in order to become successful; we wanted to do what they did to become successful. Now, of course, all the left can do is berate the wealthy and call them "evil." Yeah.... the same "evil" people that create the majority of jobs in this country.


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.


And what gets me about this is that Democrats keep with the whole "war on women" thing, yet they berate Ann for being a stay-at-home mom???? I just don't get it.


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.


Ok. I thought (according to the left) that we were supposed to be toleratant of other's religion. Oh wait.... That only applies to religions that are not Christian. Sorry... I forgot about that point.


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 (Kerry) or inheriting it from Daddy (yes, some liberals do actually fall into this catagory). Apparently, he didn't understand that actually working at a job and earning your own money made you unrelatable to Americans.


So I guess Obama's $10 million is different some how???? Oh wait.... Of course it is... Duh... He's Obama the Savior and can do no wrong. People are looking to him for his Obama money and Obama is payin fo my house n car and he even gettin me a cell phone! OBAMA!!! OBAMA!!! OBAMA!!!

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 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 .0013%.

Mitt Romney is Trustworthy:

• He will show us his birth certificate


• 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


• He will show us his income tax records


• He will show us he has nothing to hide.

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 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", 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 damn the US.

Why The Polls Under State Romney Vote‏

By DICK MORRIS
Published on DickMorris.com on September 21, 2012

Republicans are getting depressed under an avalanche of polling suggesting that an Obama victory is in the offing. They, in fact, suggest no such thing! Here's why:

1. All of the polling out there uses some variant of the 2008 election turnout as its model for weighting respondents and this overstates the Democratic vote by a huge margin.

In English, this means that when you do a poll you ask people if they are likely to vote. But any telephone survey always has too few blacks, Latinos, and young people and too many elderly in its sample. That's because some don't have landlines or are rarely at home or don't speak English well enough to be interviewed or don't have time to talk. Elderly are overstated because they tend to be home and to have time. So you need to increase the weight given to interviews with young people, blacks and Latinos and count those with seniors a bit less.

Normally, this task is not difficult. Over the years, the black, Latino, young, and elderly proportion of the electorate has been fairly constant from election to election, except for a gradual increase in the Hispanic vote. You just need to look back at the last election to weight your polling numbers for this one.

But 2008 was no ordinary election. Blacks, for example, usually cast only 11% of the vote, but, in 2008, they made up 14% of the vote. Latinos increased their share of the vote by 1.5% and college kids almost doubled their vote share. Almost all pollsters are using the 2008 turnout models in weighting their samples. Rasmussen, more accurately, uses a mixture of 2008 and 2004 turnouts in determining his sample. That's why his data usually is better for Romney.

But polling indicates a widespread lack of enthusiasm among Obama's core demographic support due to high unemployment, disappointment with his policies and performance, and the lack of novelty in voting for a black candidate now that he has already served as president.

If you adjust virtually any of the published polls to reflect the 2004 vote, not the 2008 vote, they show the race either tied or Romney ahead, a view much closer to reality.

2. Almost all of the published polls show Obama getting less than 50% of the vote and less than 50% job approval. A majority of the voters either support Romney or are undecided in almost every poll.

But the fact is that the undecided vote always goes against the incumbent. In 1980 (the last time an incumbent Democrat was beaten), for example, the Gallup Poll of October 27th had Carter ahead by 45-39. Their survey on November 2nd showed Reagan catching up and leading by three points. In the actual voting, the Republican won by nine. The undecided vote broke sharply -- and unanimously -- for the challenger.

An undecided voter has really decided not to back the incumbent. He just won't focus on the race until later in the game.

So, when the published poll shows Obama ahead by, say, 48-45, he's really probably losing by 52-48!

Add these two factors together and the polls that are out there are all misleading. Any professional pollster (those consultants hired by candidates not by media outlets) would publish two findings for each poll -- one using 2004 turnout modeling and the other using 2008 modeling. This would indicate just how dependent on an unusually high turnout of his base the Obama camp really is.