{"id":9692,"date":"2011-05-14T10:49:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T14:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=9692"},"modified":"2011-05-14T10:49:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T14:49:32","slug":"romney-fizzles-on-substance-misfires-on-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/9692\/romney-fizzles-on-substance-misfires-on-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney Fizzles on Substance, Misfires on Style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you&#8217;ve probably heard that the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703864204576317413439329644.html\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em> will not be endorsing Mitt Romney or his Massachusetts health care plan for the presidency next year. \u00a0The <em>Washington Post&#8217;<\/em>s Dana Milbank, however, has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-medical-mystery-of-mitt-romney\/2011\/05\/12\/AF5RLd1G_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">other observations<\/a> about the businessman-turned-politician&#8217;s recent flop as speechmaker:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Romney has what might be called an Al Gore problem: Even if he\u2019s being genuine, he seems ersatz. He assumed a professorial air by delivering a 25-page\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mittromney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Romney_Health.Care_.Reform.pdf\">PowerPoint presentation<\/a> in an amphitheater lecture hall \u2013 but the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uofmhealth.org\/News\/event-romney-051111\">university issued a statement<\/a> saying it had nothing to do with the event, for which the sponsoring college Republicans failed to fill all seats. His very appearance \u2013 a suit worn without a necktie \u2013 shouted equivocation. His hair was so slick that only a few strands defied the product.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Idea for a bumpersticker: Pity Mitt Romney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now, you&#8217;ve probably heard that the Wall Street Journal will not be endorsing Mitt Romney or his Massachusetts health care plan for the presidency next year. \u00a0The Washington Post&#8217;s Dana Milbank, however, has other observations about the businessman-turned-politician&#8217;s recent flop as speechmaker: Romney has what might be called an Al Gore problem: Even if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,247,1105,12,160,35],"class_list":["post-9692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-al-gore","tag-dana-milbank","tag-health-care","tag-mitt-romney","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9693,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions\/9693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}