Mark Shields: Romney is now coming across as a guy born with "silver earplugs"

[highplainsdem]

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/politics/jan-june12/shieldsbrooks_02-03.html

It does, Judy. What you have to be worried about is that a perception, a negative perception can start to set in that becomes a caricature. Take the case, for example, of President Gerald Ford, perhaps the best athlete ever to sit in the White House, a University of Michigan football player, drafted by the NFL.

But he slipped coming down the stairs and he drove a golf ball into a crowd, and, all of a sudden, he was a klutz, and Chevy Chase had a career. And that became the perception.

Mitt Romney is now coming across as a guy who was born in a log cabin in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, with silver earplugs. I mean, he doesn't hear. I mean, it really is setting in. And I think Republicans you talk to are getting nervous that perhaps this guy just doesn't haven't the touch. I mean, it's not a silver spoon. It is silver earplugs.

I mean, he really is tone-deaf.

[JI7]

1. how about it's just who he is ?

[DCKit]

2. +1

He's not coming off as the stereotype of the wealthy 1%, he IS the wealthy 1%.

[CAPHAVOC]

3. Dole fell off the stage.

I still remember that one. Face plant right in to the crowd. Romney walks like he has chains on his ankles.