Is Romney the next Kerry?

[Jon-Erich]

Yeah, Romney and Kerry seem to have a lot in common. They both seem to fall in that category where they clearly aren't who their party wanted, but were picked because they were the "safe" candidate. Kerry wasn't the loudmouth lunatic that the media portrayed Howard Dean as and Romney isn't the libertarian who wants to end the drug war and close down military bases around the world like Ron Paul. Also, as a safe candidate, Kerry was a war vet and Iraq at the time seemed like another Vietnam. He was running against a President who never fought in a war, so that made him an obvious choice. Romney on the other hand was an experienced businessman who is running against a President who has never managed a company, which made him an obvious choice. However, their actions came back to haunt them. Kerry's controversial actions (and lies) about Vietnam portrayed him as anti-American at a time when the country was in a patriotic mood. Romney on the other hand did things that made him seem like your average evil corporate businessman that Americans have come to hate after the 2008 financial crisis.

I think the results will be the same too. The President will win. Kerry and now Romney are too safe for their own good, meaning that any faults found in the safe guy will hurt his chances of winning the White House. After this election, Republicans better wise up. Ron Paul, despite his age seems to communicate with the youth of America in a way that no other Republican has been able to do in a long time. I think for those of us who were born towards the end of the Cold War, or after the Cold War tend to think that we inherited the problems we face today and that the Cold War generations are to blame. Wether you agree with him or not, Ron Paul seems to suggest new and radical ideas that are way out of the mainstream and I feel that the youth of America feels that doing things the way their parents and grandparents form of politics isn't the solution for the current problems facing the USA.