A Friendly Letter to Mitt Romney by an Obama Enthusiast
By seannelson
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Gov. Mitt Romney, I passionately oppose your politics. I gave money and went door-to-door to re-elect the admirable President Obama. But, for all your flipping faults, you inspired me, and I would have accepted you as my president. I am a poor writer and poet dependent on a government check given to me because of my schizophrenia. But I'm plenty intelligent enough to know that your party would like to take the bread off of my table and that of one of my two healthy sons(the other being supported by a private sector job.) I also understand that most people taking welfare aren't writing well-researched books and giving them free to libraries across the country... and that this is the reason for this.
You need to understand that much of the culture of the private and public sectors in America make it extremely hard for smart and principled young people like me to succeed in private industry. When I was young, my S.A.T. and aptitude tests all showed I was one of the smartest children in our state... this didn't even lead to my being placed in the advanced classes I wanted because I was a non-conformist and a day-dreamer. My teacher dad had to intervene just to get me into the Honors English class, even though I'd aced the S.A.T. English section and passed the A.P. English exam(unlike any upper-class or other student in our large high school.) Later on, my university degree(earned through a government scholarship) got me a well-paid job writing T.V. advertising; But soon, they were asking me to tell absolute lies to keep my job. So I simply walked out... integrity intact.
I wish you blessings and philosophical awakening as you continue your remarkable journey. Realize the political directions are not two but many... most of them virtually unexplored. The brand of conservatism of your early campaign is doomed... starting with Reagan it was tried and it led to such disaster that even Orwell's sheep will have nothing more to do with it. But Gov. Mitt Romney, who hired so many women in his cabinet, who worked with Democrats to expand medical opportunity to Massachussetts, the Mitt Romney who fractalizes numbers to turn around struggling corporations... this Mitt Romney can have a future if he can humble himself a bit and find more compassion for people whose beat-up cars don't have elevators, who might speak spanish or fuma la marijuana para felicidad y salud.
We don't hate you... we just want you to improve yourself so you can be the moderate conservative leader you were meant to be(by the way, we're not as ready to forgive that angel of light named Paul Ryan.) Go to your beloved France, visit the graves of Voltaire and Napoleon, and you'll find common ground with people like me. Au revoir.
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