Burying Mitt

Mr Fineman, Mitt Romney did not fail due to the reasons you mentioned. He failed because he cannot win an election when the conservative base is split into three. (Thanks, Huck and Paul) He failed because of headlines like this gem: "Mitt Romney, Mormon millionaire, coasted to victory in a largely uncontested Nevada primary on Saturday." He was given very little credit for his successes.
Of all the candidates, Romney was the most qualified. He is brilliant, successful, moral, articulate, and civic minded. Mr. Fineman, you are a small minded, liberal journalist engaged in tearing down a giant of a man.
Thrust out your chest and stand tall, Mr Fineman. At your full heigth, you might be able to bite Mitt's ankle.

This author could not be any more off base. He is exactly 180 degrees mis-directed. His inquiry should not be directed at the failings of Mitt .Romney, but rather at the structural deficiencies of a political system that weeds out exceptional managerial talent of this sort and leaves us with us with the pedestrian choices we are left with. Those who shape public opinion with the mindless, banal oerspective of this authori are of no help. The story of America has been and continues to ba a matter of failed leadership. It is no wonder that America's prominence in the World is destined to continue to deterioriate. It just amazes me how people who are ostensible so intelligent, such as this authori, are really so incredibly stupid.

Now Mitt Romney can concentrate all his efforts helping the anti-Hillary campaign of Barak Housein Obama.

I am a big fan of Mitt Romney and strongly believe that he would have been an excellent president. I also believe strongly in some, though not all, of the conservative ideas that Romney came to defend. However, I sadly admit that I agree with most of Howard Fineman's analysis. I'm not convinced that in his heart of hearts he is the arch-conservative that his advisors seem to think he needed to become. I think he would have been a much more appealing candidate if he had focused on his real strengths and run as the can-do leader and agent of change that he was during the first two years as governor of Massachusetts and as the "savior" of the Utah Olympics. There are a number of problems that this country needs to solve and I can't think of anyone better suited to leading the charge to solve them than Mitt Romney. I sincerely hope that he runs again in 2012, but that he presents himself more as who he really is than as someone others think he needs to become.

I am a big fan of Mitt Romney and strongly believe that he would have been an excellent president. I also believe strongly in some, though not all, of the conservative ideas that Romney came to defend. However, I sadly admit that I agree with most of Howard Fineman's analysis. I'm not convinced that in his heart of hearts he is the arch-conservative that his advisors seem to think he needed to become. I think he would have been a much more appealing candidate if he had focused on his real strengths and run as the can-do leader and agent of change that he was during the first two years as governor of Massachusetts and as the "savior" of the Utah Olympics. There are a number of problems that this country needs to solve and I can't think of anyone better suited to leading the charge to solve them than Mitt Romney. I sincerely hope that he runs again in 2012, but that he presents himself more as who he really is than as someone others think he needs to become.

Fineman is smart, but its obvious he is for the leftist european agenda for the U.S. Think
i'll order the new book. Liberal Facism. Jonah Goldberg

"Soulless throat-cutter"? Fineman, maybe you ought to get to know something about a person before you slander him in the national press. As someone who is personally familiar with the Romney family and with many of Mitt's close friends and neighbors, I can vouch for the fact that he was and still is a "classy guy", which is more than we can say for you. I can understand why some people would accuse him of "flip-flopping" in this campaign, and I myself don't agree with all of the policy statements that he's made recently or in the more distant past. But what's most pathetic about this development in the race is not that Romney's alleged phoniness finally brought him down, but rather the fact that an extremely capable and dedicated figure like Mitt can't have a chance in a primary election because the voters and the media are too stuck on their own religious or policy hobbyhorses to try and make an objective judgment about who may be most intelligent or most qualified to be president. I'm sure the future still holds good things for Mitt, including perhaps even more involvement on the national political stage. As for your future pieces, maybe they will display a little more of the class and character that you claim Mitt lacks... but for now I'm not getting my hopes up.

Having met Romney on a number of occasions and followed his campaign closely, I fialed to detect the phoniness you insist upon. I always found him to be forthright, without deceit and impressive in his intelligence and articulation. An organized and principled man, I cannot fathom your baseless criticism of a stellar human being in the face of compelling evidence of much fruit in his accomplished and blessed life.

This Howard Fineman is a completely unobjective reporter. He is also a cowardly bully for singling out bits and pieces of video and making fun of the statements of the public and people that support Romney, including trying to make fun of the statements of a child in his 'This Romney Guy I Guess' video. Out of all the media sources I have viewed on Romney, Fineman's page here is the most highly mirepresentative and a complete waste of time for anyone wanting a fair view on politics.

Expensive gas? Blame Dick Cheney for that. The war against "terror" misconstrues a method of battle and enemy. Clever if you have many friends who profit enormously from war in a resource rich region. That and the 2 trillion bucks burned to do it.

The dollars that must be printed because no one has the guts to cut spending are a George Bush and Dick Cheney inflation machine. The Bush/Cheney inflation causes a less valuable dollar, and therefore higher number of dollars to buy oil.

Terror activities are higher because Bush/Cheney created Al Qaeda in Iraq. This little group never existed before the Bush Cheney war. But, then again, no one sold more weapons to Sadam Hussain than Donald Rumsfeld!! Crazy, eh?

Expensive gas? Blame Dick Cheney for that. The war against "terror" misconstrues a method of battle and enemy. Clever if you have many friends who profit enormously from war in a resource rich region. That and the 2 trillion bucks burned to do it.

The dollars that must be printed because no one has the guts to cut spending are a George Bush and Dick Cheney inflation machine. The Bush/Cheney inflation causes a less valuable dollar, and therefore higher number of dollars to buy oil.

Terror activities are higher because Bush/Cheney created Al Qaeda in Iraq. This little group never existed before the Bush Cheney war. But, then again, no one sold more weapons to Sadam Hussain than Donald Rumsfeld!! Crazy, eh?