Mitt Romney…What If?
It’s never too soon to talk aboot the next election, and even though we still have the 2010 midterms to concern ourselves with, we seem to have leapfrogged over that and gone write to 2012. That may or may not explain why Mitt Romney’s name has been in the news again, giving the President-Elect advice, questioning whether his family even wants him to run again in the first place, and a few other stories that are more gossip than anything else.
What kills me is, whenever Mitt’s name is mentioned, I can’t help but wonder “what if?”
I was very Anti-Romney during the primaries, mainly because he came across as being really full of it. First, seeing that there was no “establishment candidate” he tried to turn himself into one. Then, after the loss in Iowa, tried to change who he was and what his campaign stood for with each primary. It was like watching Eddie Haskill from the old “Leave it to Beaver” series.
But once I realized Senator McCain was going to lose, I gave Mitt Romney a second look, especially as I found him to make the case for John McCain better than McCain did. And I found myself wondering, what would have happened if he just ran as himself, as opposed to run as a born again social conservative?
What if we had a candidate who actually understood the economy?
What if we had a candidate who didn’t care aboot the media?
What if we had a candidate who had an actual organization in place, and could raise his own coin after Obama inevitably went back on his word concerning public financing?
What if we had a candidate who came with Michigan and New Hampshire, two “blue states” that we could probably flip right away?
What if it was the Romney campaign who introduced Sarah Palin as his vice president?
What if it was Romney in those three debates?
Yes, he would have had the same challenge of running against history and the Bush Administration, but like Karl Rove said, “you can win any election if you run a good campaign.” And I refuse to even consider 2012 for another two years; I don’t care how many people are making multiple trips to Iowa.
But still, I look back at some of the mistakes that were made and wonder…what if?
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