MICHAEL BARONE: Untouched by ’60s, Romney reflects corny ’50s – WashEx
By MB Snow at November 30, 2011 | 3:03 pm | Print
Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney signs autographs after speaking at a campaign stop, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, in Medley, Fla. While others focus on Iowa’s caucuses or the early primaries in New Hampshire and South Carolina, Romney is set to spend the day in the state welcoming endorsements from three top Cuban-American Republicans, attending several fundraisers and visiting the port in Tampa to discuss trade policy. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
One question I have been sometimes asked in this presidential campaign goes something like this: Why does Mitt Romney sound so corny?
Actually, phrasing it that way suggests the answer. “Corny” is a word you don’t hear people saying much any more. As you reach a certain age, you hear yourself uttering words or phrases that you realize no one else says any more. The vernacular of your youth has passed into quiet obscurity.
As it happens, I know something about Romney’s youth, since he was three years behind me at the private boy’s school I attended in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. I still have trouble shaking my image of him as a 14-year-old boy, which he was when I graduated.
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