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There was an interesting article last month in New York Magazine that profiled Mitt Romney and described his past as a consultant and businessman. It’s a fantastic article, a great read, and I definitely recommend it. It was particularly interesting to me due to my recent interest in Romney’s candidacy. In the past year, I’ve definitely become politically independent, mostly due to disillusionment from the inability for Democrats in Congress to do, well, anything. It’s been incredibly frustrating to watch Obama try, and fail, to get anything of worth through Congress as the Republicans and Democrats refuse to compromise. At this point, I wonder if Obama really is faultless – is his inability to push anything through congress due to his own leadership deficiencies?
And so, reading the article about Mitt Romney, I find myself impressed by his history as a businessman and, of course, as a consultant. He seems like the kind of leader our government needs: an objective thinker with a huge appetite for data. While I can’t agree with some of the social policy areas that he is forced to endorsed due to his party affiliation, I really do like his way of thinking and executing, which may be more important with the economy as the focus of the 2012 election. While I haven’t done enough research into his positions on key issues (besides healthcare), his character (apparently he’s a flip-flopper), or his ability to be the leader of the free world (which is becoming more and more an antiquated exaggeration), what I’ve seen so far has been impressive. While I still Obama as a man, I, like many others, have become frustrated by the inaction of the government as a whole over the last few years. I’d certainly like to see Romney win the Republican nomination to see how he stacks up against the charisma of Obama. At the very least, he isn’t as ideologically repugnant to me as the other Republican candidates.
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