Romney should remain at his own side

Analyzing the presidency political campaigns, it is each day more clear the advantage of the actual president over the republican candidate. The most important events that show this scenario were the National Conference of the parties, especially Mitt Romney’s Speech on RNC (link here)

Comparing to Obama’s speech (link here), we can see a politician more worried about his image more than showing his government proposes, idealist (getting to the point that he seems to be out of United States Foreign Policy Issues) and one that simply don’t respond his main critics. This conjecture can confer Romney an image of weak.

The republican spent more than a third part of his speech talking about his life story, criticized Obama government and his election promises and used the remaining time to talk about the five steps of the economic plan. Is this priority order correct? When will he really talk about the Foreign Policy? That was my main questions when I finished watching his speech.

Another thing that made me worried was the intensive use of idealistic expressions. “Praying for better days”, “americans don’t skip” and “we live in the greatest country in the history of the world” are normal words for a politician, but used as much as Romney did make it seems an utopic candidate and even too pretentious.

This makes me remember the point that most affected me: How can be possible to define the United States as the people that the world needs to do great things (“When the world needs someone to do a big stuff, you need an American”) if its representant doesn’t know world’s desires and needs? Romney seems to be disconnected with United States Foreign Policy and didn’t explore this on its speech. He said that Obama made the world more insecure for not reducing nuclear threat. He banalized the efforts for reducing the speed of Global Warming and its attempts to use the pacific via to solve international problems. As a latin-american, I feel insecure about Romney’s capacity to deal with US power and, mainly, responsibilities.

The cartoon makes reference to Romney utterance: “We don’t apologize for success, Mr. Obama. We celebrate it”. Explore the weakness of the adversary is a common and good political campaign strategy, but not recognizing any success achieved until now isn’t prudent. I think that Romney would be more well succeeded on its campaign if explores more seriously Obama weak points. In addition, the republican candidate should improve its capacity of argumentation and response. These are the expectations for the next days and especially for the Debate between the two candidates of presidency race.

When I was almost finishing the text, I took a glance at New York Times. There was a report talking about elections of 2012 (link here) that seems to match with this analyses. The report says that Romney will change the subject of its campaign, emphasizing more 5 steps of his economic policy, which covers the matters of jobs and “energy independence”, strong points of the republican campaign.