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In Battle for Young Voters, Romney Should Play It Uncool

Very good advice. More than anything else (and for more than just the youth vote) Romney needs to be himself. If that's stiff and policy wonkish, then so be it. This is no time for a phony candidate---if people want that, then there's no way to defeat Obama.

"He needs to contrast himself with Obama in ways that highlight Obama's desperate need to seem cool to compensate for his failures."I couldn't agree with you more! Somebody get Romney on the phone... :)

Romney has been running for President for 6 years now. It is too late to change who he is now. He needs to load his brains a bit more before he shoots off his mouth. He often hits his foot instead of the mark. He is who he is. I think he definetly can pull off the nerd thing though. Since Santorium is out I'm a Romney supporter now. This country cannot handle a lame duck Obama. Like he asked Mevedev I'd be more than happy to give Obama space. Just not as President.

@Jeremy: Being a phony worked well for Obama. Maybe Romney should drink more chocolate milk.

Or, you know, you could just vote for Ron Paul.

Why the hell hasn't Romney said how much social security and medicare are going to cost the 18 to 30 year olds and they will never get anything out of it. Remind them that it was Joe Stalin's best fried FDR that put us in this mess.

"He'd never done much that was important, save give some fun speeches, but that was OK; neither had most college students, and that didn't keep them from being special either." A very astute point. Liberals like to vote for people who are "like them" because they are so uncomfortable with who they are that they don't want the inevitable comparison with someone who is better. This is why they eschew standards, won't keep score at kids' games, squirm uncomfortably at the thought of religion, and voted for the amoral Bill Clinton and the unqualified Barack Obama.Hopefully Goldberg is correct, and the new young generation will be more mature than their '60s-liberals parents and grandparents.

Howard last, you raise a good question, my friend. Allow me to raise another: just what does Romney stand for? Bring up a subject, he'll give you an answer. And tomorrow, it may or may not be the same answer. He readily provides "answers for the day." Just like Obama, do we really know what we'll get with Romney? The only positive thing I see is that Obama would be deposed. And from the commentaries I read here, most seemed to be satisfied with just that. So would I. But that's not going to fix all that's broken.

Tex, you got it right about Romney. Romney was at the NRA convention. Good thing I was not in attendance or I would have turned my back and walked out. Ask the citizens of Taxachussetts about the anti-gun laws he signed. There is only one candidate who is 100% pro gun, that is Ron Paul.

Even at this late date, some people are STILL beating the drum for Ron Paul.Give it up already.

To the diehard Ron Paul supporters out there.There are various flavors of KoolAide. One of them is Dumbocratberry. Another is ObamananmaDingDong. Both of them look pretty to the untrained eye, but both taste like sugared bovine excrement once you drink it. Strangely and sadly there are those who do love the taste!! No accounting as they say... And then there is RonniePaulozzer.Hey don't get me wrong, I like RonniePaulozzer to. Tastes good going down, but can come back up unexpectedly. And the after taste is eventually gonna make you wonder what you ever saw in it. From a marketing point of view, RP doesn't sell really well, and keeps getting left on the shelf week after week, after week.Or course for some of you, it is all you will ever drink. Loyalty is a wonderful thing at times, it is true. But think of it this way, "Why can't you even consider the possibility of give up the KoolAide, and trying a more mature and successful beverage?"There is hope that some of you will wake up before it is too late, and make a different thirsts quencher your drink of choice, at least through 6 November 2012.How about really trying a RomneyCola. Try it, you might learn to like it.And at the very least, if enough of us buy it, we may be able to crowd Dumbocratberry and ObamanamaDingDong right off the shelf forever, and never have to deal with the terrible taste of those two putrid beverages again.Just a suggestion from one who resisted tasting the RC alternative for some time. RJA---------------------------------------------"FIGHT ORGANIZED CRIME! DON'T RE-ELECT ANY OF THE CROOKS THAT GOT US INTO THIS MESS!" RJA