Jonathan Capehart, WaPo: Mitt Romney’s character flaw

[highplainsdem]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/mitt-romneys-character-flaw/2011/03/04/gIQA9aKozQ_blog.html

Mitt Romney can’t translate his carefully manufactured aura of inevitability into reality because no one believes he is who he says he is. We all know this. But after his triple loss last night, I’m convinced that Romney’s problems with the Republican primary electorate and voters in general go deeper. They sense a lack of character in someone for a job that requires bedrock principles and core beliefs. And as far as I can tell, Romney has none.

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Where one stands on a woman’s right to choose and on equality for gay people is a matter of conscience. Changing one’s mind in either arena should be done with care and thought, especially by politicians seeking the public trust. Doing an about-face on abortion or gay rights is not cause for suspicion. But reversing your beliefs on abortion, gay rights, gun control, climate change and your own health care plan in the space of an election cycle most definitely is. It bespeaks a person of unmoored convictions. One with a malleable inner core. One, quite frankly, who cannot be trusted.

The consequences of this sense of Romney are there for all to see as folks in the GOP openly plea for a Superman or woman to swoop in and save their electoral prospects. John Avlon and Ron Brownstein point to the lower vote totals for Romney, the lower turnout in recent contests, the antipathy of conservatives and Tea Partyers and the loss of support among independents. But the evidence was most stark in The Post-ABC News poll. A stunning 52 percent said the more they heard about Romney the less they liked him. This is a character flaw that a deluge of super PAC dollars can’t fix.

[Angry Dragon]

1. The invisible man

[DJ13]

2. It bespeaks a person of unmoored convictions. One with a malleable inner core.

That describes most every politician in DC.

People of strong character dont get the support of corporate america.