Commit for Mitt!

Well, it was good to hear the news that Mitt Romney was declared the winner of the Michigan Primary. Of course, so many of the media pundits and crystal ball readers seemed inclined to declare Senator McCain the winner, even before the first ballot was cast. So I’m sure the media is going to focus on Romney being a “native son” and factor this into his win, hoping that the public at large will swallow this media spun excuse, rather then accepting the fact that maybe the good people of Michigan recognize that Romney has some skill sets that most of the other candidates lack or are weak in – in particular a proven track record of turning around “distressed” enterprises. Since the media has decided to focus on what is being characterized as a flagging, stalled, weakening (insert the adjective of your choice here) economy then it becomes more and more apparent that Romney skill sets more closely fit this particular scenario.

When this primary season first got started I was a bit reluctant to count myself as a Mitt Romney supporter, in fact I started off as a Rudy Giuliani supporter. However two things convinced me that Romney was the better candidate. The first was the more I got to know Giuliani and his inner circle the more disenchanted I became with his leadership skills (see my post on “How not to treat volunteers”); and as my daughter reminded me this Country has elected a disabled person (FDR), a Catholic (JFK) and of course a Quaker (Nixon) so electing a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Later-day Saints (a Mormon) to our highest office is not so far-fetched. So I began to educate myself on Romney and the more I learned the more I like what I learned.

Is he the “perfect” candidate, hardly and I do not think you will find him ever pretending to be perfect. But I feel that his commitment to doing something positive for our Nation is real and heart-felt and he definitely has the managerial, political and psychosocial skills I think that we need in our next President.