Romney’s Realness
by digby
I recommend this piece by Rich Yeselsen at Crooked Timber about the fatuous notion of political “authenticity.” This is just a little taste:
People are what they do, and part of what presidential candidates must do is project a fully integrated depth of being before multiple audiences. Romney’s political problem—his poor job performance as a professional politician—is that he has an almost poignant difficulty in managing to do that. His inability to merely fake the “realness” that people hunger for reminds me of what was once said about former Texas Governor, and Democrat turned Republican John Connally: he is the only man in the world whose real hair makes people think he’s wearing a toupee.
I hadn’t heard that before but I have often felt there was something really fake about Mitt’s hair.
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