Posted Monday, January 2, 2012, 4:18 PM
A column titled "7 Reasons Why Mitt Romney's Electability Is A Myth" by John Hawkins currently is the #1 most-read piece on Townhall.com over the last week.
Getting right to the point, those seven reasons are: "1) People just don't like Mitt," "2) 2) He's a proven political loser," "3) Running weak in the southern states," "4) His advantages disappear in a general election," "5) Bain CapitaL," "6) The Mormon Factor," and "7) He's a flip-flopper."
Among the highlights of Hawkins’s approximately-2,000-word column, at least in Jewish Culture Examiner’s opinion, were the following passages:
- "… independent voters tend to be moved by the excitement of the candidate's base (See John McCain vs. Barack Obama for an example of how this works). This is how a very conservative candidate like Ronald Reagan could win landslide victories. He avoided being labeled an extremist as Goldwater was; yet his supporters were incredibly enthusiastic and moderates responded to it. …"
- "2) He's a proven political loser: There's a reason Mitt Romney has been able to say that he's 'not a career politician.' It's because he's not very good at politics. He lost to Ted Kennedy in 1994. Although he did win the governorship of Massachusetts in 2002, he did it without cracking 50% of the vote. Worse yet, he left office as the 48th most popular governor in America and would have lost if he had run again in 2006."
- "Mitt Romney became rich working for Bain Capital. This has been a plus for Romney in the Republican primaries where the grassroots tend to be dominated by people who love capitalism and the free market. However, in a year when Obama will be running a populist campaign and Occupy Wall Street is demonizing the '1%,' Mitt Romney will be a TAILOR MADE villain for them. Did you know that Bain Capital gutted companies and made a lot of money, in part, by laying off a lot of poor and middle class Americans? Do you know that Bain Capital got a federal bailout and Mitt Romney made lots of money off of it?"
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