Romney's fatal campaign flaws

Death of a Salesman

Posted by Blake on Feb 10, 2008 - 03:40 pm

Following some disappointing Super Tuesday results, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney dropped out of the race for the Republican nomination, leaving John McCain as the very likely candidate for the GOP in November.

Romney looked really good on paper, being successful in pretty much everything he’s done. He’s super rich, he was a well-liked Republican governor in the bluest state in the union, and he even succeeded in bringing the Olympics, the biggest celebration of diversity on the planet, to Salt Lake City, Utah. So why’d he lose?

Last year’s Wake Forest graduation speaker David Brooks says it’s because he was an orthodox Republican in an unorthodox election year. Newsweek’s Howard Fineman says it’s because Romney was a fake. Slate says it’s because Republican voters just didn’t like him. The Boston Globe implies that it was because the GOP’s Evangelical base wouldn’t vote for a Mormon.

On second thought, maybe Mitt wasn’t such a strong candidate on paper.