Romney Aide: "Warmed Over Oatmeal"

[brooklynite]

Politico:

Mitt Romney image-makers split on strategy


Members of Mitt Romney’s inner circle acknowledge they still have yet to solve the key challenge they face in trying to help him win the presidency — finding a way to make an emotionally remote and fabulously wealthy candidate connect with average voters.

Aides continue to debate whether they should seize even tighter control of the former Massachusetts governor or yield to the push by some advisers to “let Romney be Romney” — but they have yet to crack the code. “They haven’t been able to grapple with the central issue and central challenge they face as a campaign,” one Romney adviser lamented. “In the absence of a candidate who has any poetry — who has any ability to connect on an emotional level — how do you create a bond?”

Borrowing from Mario Cuomo, the adviser drew a distinction between “poetry” and “prose” candidates. Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush were prose candidates; Bill Clinton was a poetry candidate; Barack Obama was both.

Romney’s agenda, the adviser said, is “warmed-over oatmeal” and needs to be bolder.

[cindyperry2010]

1. Until Rmoney

opens his mouth and sticks his own foot in it. I think he just cannot understand nor relate to you and me. Not that I care because I do not and would never vote for american taliban aka rethuglican

[LiberalFighter]

2. Warmed-over oatmeal is not salvageable.

No amount of milk or sugar will revive it. It is beyond just being lumpy.

[JaneQPublic]

3. Romney is neither poetry nor prose...

He's stock market ticker.

[LetTimmySmoke]

4. Doesn't matter how well you cook up shit or what spices you throw on there.

It still tastes like shit.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

5. Hmmm That's one way Obama changed the country. People now want someone you can admire

and who riles you up.

I agree 100%, feel for those advisers -they've got a rock in Romney and you can't change a rock