Mitt Romney's difficulty in answering questions

[BostonPirate]

He knows that if he talks it only hurts his chances of winning. There's nothing he can say that won't be either a lie or a flip flop.

 

[andysayshi]

This is very important. A man who refuses to answer questions from and of his constituents has no business running for such important office. Romney's campaign has been the most dishonest, the most prone to complete reversals of policy direction, and the most closed from the media, of any that I've ever seen.

Either he can't take the heat, or he's hiding something. Either way, a man with so many unaired skeletons in his closets, who refuses to address them, effectively refusing to speak to the American people, has no business being in the White House.

 

[T-Rexx]

My guess is that the problem for Mittens has been his flip-flopping.

This late in the race, he can't say anything which is not a contradiction of some previous position (or two). It's making him look ridiculous.

"Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool..."

 

[levenshulme31]

It doesn't help him that the campaign has been carried out in such a way that the Republican party has effectively tried to pander to different groups, many with a single issue mentality to such an extent that if he says anything beyond meaningless platitudes it will alienate one or other section of his base.

I have yet to see footage of Romney supporters who can offer a credible, sensible reason why they are voting fo Romney. They just spout nonsense about wanting their country back or vacuous notions that Romney will be a better President without offering any reasoning as to why. And, as an outsider, it does appear that a significant number of them appear to be biting their tongues, lest they let out the underlying fact that they just don't want a black man at the helm - it still scrambles their tiny brains.

 

[andysayshi]

This video encapsulates quite well the criticisms of Romney's record as Governor.



People who are voting for Romney because of his economic record don't know enough about that record.

 

[maxpowr9]

As it has been proven, besides the typical GOP shills who would vote for a dead person, the others aren't voting for Romney but against Obama. A sensible person would vote third-party in disgust of Obama and Romney.

 

[bw92116]

He's not accustomed to having to answer to anyone.

 

[bw92116]

I'd be willing to bet that Romney won't even make a speech on Tuesday evening, or if he does make one, it will be very short and basically say something like, "We're waiting for all the results to come in." Then he would simply disappear. With the type of personality he has, he can't admit defeat or failure, so I wouldn't expect him to make a concession speech or the concession phone call to Obama. Once it becomes obvious that he lost, he will make one quick vague statement, then simply disappear, and he'll probably never appear on camera or in front of a microphone again.

 

[frankfrank]

That would be a good thing, bw92116, if he does sink from public view/earshot without a trace by the middle of the week. FOREVER. Every time I hear his voice, or even SEE his face (or, for that matter, Paul Ryan's), it makes my skin crawl.

That, even after considering that Romney is handsome and Ryan, by nearly all criteria, is a hunk.

THE SIMPSONS may have originally modeled the CEO Mr. Burns after somebody in real life, but they couldn't have foreseen that the quintessential real-life Mr. Burns would end up running for President a generation later...and perhaps even get elected.