Mitt Romney

America The Beautiful Dept: Some of that may be true, although I found his nerdy rendition of America The Beautiful a couple of weeks ago endearing. He certainly seems so privileged that he honestly doesn t understand just how privileged he is. And I suspect many of his far-right stances during this campaign aren t truly representative of his beliefs; he s pandering to the extreme factions of the party, those motivated enough to go out and vote in primaries, according to The Chronicle Herald. But as I ve watched the race for the Republican presidential nomination twist and turn, I wonder: Would any candidate have been able to unite the wildly divergent Republican voters any better than Romney has? Is the story not Romney s weakness as a candidate, but a stratified Republican base that is remarkably different than it was even four years ago, thanks to the emergence of the Tea Party and mitt Romney s come in for a lot of criticism from Republicans and beyond: He cannot win over conservatives. He cannot bridge the enthusiasm gap. He cannot connect with voters. He s a rich man woefully out of touch with the average American. He lacks personality. He s a nerd. He s a secret moderate. Democrats do it too, which is why you heard Barack Obama vowing to reopen NAFTA, among other pet causes of the left, when he ran for president in 2008. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.