For all the national exposure Romney has garnered in his quest for the presidency, many find him unknowable.
Will the real Mitt Romney please stand up?
Just like the celebrity panel on the 1950s television show, “To Tell the Truth,” tried to identify a contestant who had an unusual occupation or experience, voters are trying to figure out who the GOP presidential candidate really is.
It’s a question voters ask every time they cast a ballot for any candidate – and it’s especially pertinent question to ask when someone is aspiring to the highest office in the land.
It was, and continues to be, a question voters have about President Barack Obama, who has been commander in chief for the last four years. We know a lot about the president from his autobiography and we’ve had a chance to size up his performance in tough times for Americans both at home and abroad.
For all the national exposure Romney has garnered in his quest for the presidency – this time and back in 2008 – many find him unknowable.
Is he the moderate Republican he appeared to be when he defeated Democrat Shannon O’Brien to become governor of Massachusetts? Is he the more conservative man be became near the end of his first and only term as governor of the Bay State? Or is he someone different today?
We know that President Obama’s early life experiences as the son of a white woman from Kansas and a black man from Africa, and his work as a community organizer and law professor helped shape his world view.
What makes Romney tick?
In an effort to delve further into the question of who Mitt Romney is, tomorrow’s issue of the Sunday Republican offers readers a reprint of an 11,000-word article, which appeared this month in The New Yorker magazine, telling the story of Romney from birth to the present.
“Transaction Man,” by Nicholas Lemann, not only maps Romney’s career, but also delves into how the nation’s business culture has changed since the candidate’s father, George Romney, made his mark as an auto industry executive in the heyday of American manufacturing.
It’s interesting reading – offering an insight to a man who could become our next president.