Times of London: Romney a “Mormon with a JFK touch”
http://www.timesonline.co…2383148,00.html
Seems Gov. Romney’s ascent is so strong that they’re noticing clear on the other side of the Atlantic.
Although McCain remains the clear favourite to win the 2008 nomination, the search is on for a Republican who can unite the anti-McCain wing of the conservative movement.
Romney, whose Massachusetts state is usually a bastion of East Coast liberalism, is considered to be the coming man. At the party he beamed at John Fund, a staunchly right-wing writer for The Wall Street Journal, who had just written about how Romney was “wowing” social conservatives.
The clean-cut governor spent last weekend at the Family Research Council summit in Washington, the spiritual home of Christian “values voters” who provided the bedrock vote for Bush in 2004. Romney is a Mormon, which was once thought to be an insuperable barrier to winning evangelical support. “Everyone I talked to said they didn’t have a problem with it,” one attendee said.
Romney also benefits from chiselled good looks, delegates noted. “Many people say he certainly looks like a president — a sort of cross between Ronald Reagan and John F Kennedy,” swooned Genevieve Wood, founder of the conservative Center for a Just Society.
The future may not lie with an American elder statesman and his young British apprentice [British Conservative Party Leader David Cameron] but with two JFKs, who have yet to forge a relationship.
I wonder how long President Kennedy will continue to symbolize good looking and charismatic presidential contenders no matter where they stand politically. We’re fast approaching half a century since his election. Someone check if Kennedy was compared with President Pierce before he was elected.
~~~Thomas
