Winning charm and shifting policies
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CONCORD, N. H. Mitt Romney doesn't just shake your hand. He shakes it, then envelopes it with his other hand, or uses the other hand to grasp your elbow, while he leans forward, his hazel eyes locked on you.
Very glad to meet you or Thank you so much for coming or some such, and then it's on to the next potential vote. But for a moment, you were the only person in his world.
Mitt Romney is one of those politicians who feeds off the energy of others. He loves to work a room, even this room, a gathering of two dozen nursing-home seniors, some of them seemingly unaware of their surroundings.
There are veterans in the room - the Second World War, Korea - and he pays tribute to their sacrifice. When Americans place their hands on their hearts while saluting the flag, he tells them, it means that our hearts are being protected by the hands of others. It's that corny, but he owns this room.
Mitt Romney has spent much of his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in places like this in New Hampshire and Iowa.
He has devoted almost half of his time to the two states since he began his campaign last January, as well as spending a large chunk of the $17.4-million he has lent his own campaign.
And the investment is paying off.
Although the former Massachusetts governor has been sitting in the teens and low twenties in national polls of Republican candidates, behind front-runner Rudolph Giuliani, polls in the opening-round states of Iowa and New Hampshire, which Mr. Romney has been blanketing with television advertising for months, have him in the lead.
In fact, the man whose net worth is thought to be as high as $250-million, thanks to his years running a private-equity investment firm, and who rescued the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics from debt and disgrace, probably has as good a shot at winning the Republican nomination as any candidate. If he can pick up both Iowa (Jan. 3) and New Hampshire (probably Jan. 8), and buttress it with a win in Michigan (Jan. 15) where he is heavily favoured, then sheer momentum could carry the 60-year-old entrepreneur and politician to victory on Feb. 5, when at least 20 states hold primaries.
Or he could fizzle. For the unhappy truth for Republicans is that each of the major candidates encompasses potentially fatal flaws. For Mr. Giuliani, it's his liberal stand on gay rights, abortion, gun control and immigration, which should make him anathema to the Republican base. For John McCain, it's his aggressive support for legalizing illegal immigrants and for campaign finance reform. For Mitt Romney, it's that he's a Mormon chameleon.
To most people, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a harmlessly eccentric offshoot of mainstream Christianity. For evangelical Christians, it's a cult, one that no president of the United States of America should have anything to do with.
Pundits and some of his own advisers have been urging Mr. Romney to deal with the issue in a speech similar to the one John Kennedy gave in 1960 to address concerns about his Catholicism. (Yes, times have changed that much.) But Mr. Romney still isn't convinced the speech is necessary.
Some folks think I should do it soon, some say later, some say never, some say right away, he told reporters in Concord this week. It's my decision. I'll make the decision. But there's no particular urgency, because I'm making progress in the states where I'm campaigning.
His second problem is his shift on social policy.
Once he was pro-choice, now he's anti-abortion. In 1994, while running for Massachusetts senator, he wrote an association representing gay Republicans.
If we are to achieve the goals we share, he told Log Cabin Republicans, we must make equality for gays and lesbians a mainstream concern. My opponent cannot do this. I can and will.
His opponent was Edward Kennedy. It prompted Fred Thompson to quip during a recent Republican debate: Actually, Mitt, I didn't know there was any room to the left of Ted Kennedy.
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