August 26, 2011 07:56 PM UTC

"Reminds Me of John Kerry" Not What You Want to Hear

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• by: Colorado Pols

It’s been a rough week for Republican Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who has seen Texas Governor Rick Perry eclipse him as frontrunner by double-digits in a new poll. But that’s not the worst of it. Romney of late has been flip-flopping on issues like global warming, leading to a comparison to one of the more ignominious candidates in recent history. From MSNBC First Read:

Romney played into his biggest weakness, that he’s inauthentic by backtracking on global warming and on Dodd-Frank. And he also played into the awkwardness meme. On Tuesday, Jill Lawrence wrapped some of Romney’s odder moments, comparing him to John Kerry, whom Lawrence covered in 2004. Kerry, she says, has been on her “mind as Mitt Romney, in his second presidential outing, keeps adding to his digital library of remarks that are insensitive, inappropriate or not nearly as funny to others as they are to him.” [Pols emphasis] And his “I’m sorry it’s my turn” town hall adds to it. How many other ways could he have handled that? The Romney campaign thinks moments like this show strength – that’s what they said after the Des Moines Register Soap Box “corporations are people” event. But they may have learned the wrong lesson from the Soap Box moment. The party may want a hard-charger, but is that who Romney really is? People still ultimately want their politicians to be likeable.

Yikes! Is there a worse comparison in recent history for any Presidential hopeful to be compared to the comatose 2004 Presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry, the patron saint for how to run for President and look like a boob while doing it?