Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s acceptance of the Republican nomination kicks off the sprint to the finish line in 2012’s presidential election. Voters who have been mostly disengaged will start to pay attention and so it is critical that Romney give them a clear choice to vote for. Both candidate Romney and president Obama must make their cases for why they should be the president over the next four years.
If Romney wants to defeat Obama and take advantage of his strengths as a candidate, he should channel the grossly underrated president, Warren G. Harding, who is much maligned because of the Teapot Dome scandal that involved some of his cabinet members. However, Harding was never implicated in the corruption and his actual policies that affected the nation have been totally overlooked.
Romney in many ways resembles Harding in policy and persona; Romney like Harding is said to “look presidential,” both are originally from Midwestern states—Harding from Ohio and Romney from Michigan—both were successful business men who turned around failing enterprises before entering politics, and both will have a chance to take over for a president that has left the nation’s economy in ruins and has an philosophy that stands in opposition to the founding principles of the United States.
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