COMMENTARY | What is wrong with the two leading Republican Presidential candidates? Are they tone deaf, stupid, or just plain clueless? Two days before the Florida primary, Newt "Gender Gap" Gingrich accepted the endorsement of accused serial sex harasser Herman Cain, then went on to lose overwhelmingly to Mitt Romney, who captured 51 percent of the female vote, according to the New York Times.
Newt had a serious gender gap problem even before Cain's endorsement. Enlisting the aid of an accused sex harasser clearly wouldn't help him. Nearly three-quarters of Florida Republican women voters cast their ballot for someone else.
Not to be outdone, and seemingly determined like Newt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, Romney shared a Las Vegas stage with Donald Trump to accept his endorsement. This was the very same "The Donald" whose mantra is "You're fired!" and the very same Romney who got into hot water last month by joyously telling a GOP crowd, "I like to fire people."
Even more astounding was the fact that on the very morning of the very same day Romney danced his tango with the bewildering billionaire who was threatening to run for president himself according to CBS News, the Republican front-runner had told a startled news reporter, "I don't care about the very poor...."
Romney's gaffe touched off a firestorm with criticism coming from all quarters, including the conservative right whose collective heart supposedly is made of stone. Watching the evening newscasts, there was an air of incredulity among the newscasters that Romney could follow up such a boneheaded gaffe with the even more boneheaded move of genuflecting before the self-anointed Pope of American Capitalism on steroids as if to underscore the fact that he really didn't give a damn.
What is wrong with Mitt Romney? Is he so out of touch with average Americans that he has no idea how his patrician obliviousness plays with the vast majority of voters who will determine the presidency come November? He is the richest man to mount a serious run for the White House since Nelson Rockefeller in the 1960s, but unlike Rocky, a billionaire back when you could count billionaires on the fingers of two hands, Mitt lacks a common touch. He just doesn't get it.
Back at the White House, Barack Obama, who seemingly leads a charmed life when it comes to electoral politics, is smiling.
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