Mitt Romney - Living Mirror

The Presidential race at this point is less of a race and more of a case of one person running full out and one person figuring he'll get to the finish line eventually, if he can spend enough time without one or both of his feet in his mouth. 

After the release of the secretly-recorded video of Mitt Romney speaking to campaign contributors who donated $50,000 a plate by Mother Jones this week, I believe the real Mitt Romney is finally being shown to the world. After weeks and months of changing his story based on the demographics of the group sitting in front of him, I think this is finally how he actually feels. 

A politician who changes his mind is in no way a bad thing. Every single person goes through life thinking one way as they grow up, and their opinion often changes throughout their life (or even every few years) based on the experiences they have and the information they learn. I have no problem with someone who does this. Mitt Romney, on the other hand, has different values and varying plans for the country within the same day, speaking in front of two different audiences. The benefit to this is that the group who is sitting in front of him, listening to his ideas and promises, think he's the greatest thing since sliced bread because he just totally gets us. The downside to this is that you are left with a candidate, and more basically a man, who has no actual values or beliefs or ideas of his own.

If the only thing a person can do is mirror back feelings, values, beliefs and ideals to their audience, what happens when that person is alone in a room? Or, in a highly unlikely scenario, in front of a group of jihadists who believe America is the devil and the American people should be punished with death for not believing as they do? What would he promise or tell those people?

If the only thing a candidate can do is be a living mirror and disparage the current President for the way he's handling things, what then does he really have to offer as a leader? I would be hard-pressed to come up with an answer to this question. Maybe in the coming days, the Romney campaign will attempt to provide us with one.