Love Story

Famously, when a woman reportedly asked House Speaker John Boehner, "Can you make me love Mitt Romney?" he said, "No... the American people probably aren't going to fall in love with Mitt Romney."  Many, if not most, politicians seek love and adulation.  No doubt, this was a driving force for President Clinton.

I suspect that Romney views the voting public with disdain.  It is not that he is unworthy of their love, but rather their love has no worth.  He cynically tells them what they want to hear, and believes the public is too slow to notice his rapid shifts of position.

His strategy in every election has been to drive up his opponents negatives rather than push up his own positives.  Most campaigns, like the president's, seek to do both.   This is the only explanation for his focused attack on a third party ad that had never run on TV.  As a result the ad which implied Bain's closing of a plant lead to a women's death, has had over 500,000 hits and has been shown repeatedly on news and political shows.  He and his surrogates claim it is beneath the office of the president.

Will it work?  With a 2 to 1 spending edge over the past 45 days there is some movement in the polls.  Is hate more powerful than love?

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