Campaigning on your faith is fine - even if you are more dogmatic about your faith than 90% of your fellow practitioners. It's at least personally consistent, if not goal-oriented.
Romney's faith is also strong, and I gather that one of the sub-texts of the Mormon faith is that God will reward the good in this life, as well as the next. There is no shame in his general culture, in being very successful. There is no shame amongst the well-to-do, in being well-to-do.
The remarkable thing about Romney is not how often he says he's rich: it's how often he does NOT remind people that he's rich.
The glare of the spotlight is on these guys, and their "worst moment each day" is being reported. If you think about what they are doing as 24/7 improv, they really do a remarkable job of sticking to the message, almost all the time.
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Date: 2012-02-29 03:13 pm (UTC)Romney's faith is also strong, and I gather that one of the sub-texts of the Mormon faith is that God will reward the good in this life, as well as the next. There is no shame in his general culture, in being very successful. There is no shame amongst the well-to-do, in being well-to-do.
The remarkable thing about Romney is not how often he says he's rich: it's how often he does NOT remind people that he's rich.
The glare of the spotlight is on these guys, and their "worst moment each day" is being reported. If you think about what they are doing as 24/7 improv, they really do a remarkable job of sticking to the message, almost all the time.