Californians to Mitt Romney: Yeah, but can you type?

I'm of the generation who actually remembers his late dad, George Romney's, try for the White House. He was a good man as I recall, but then America would never have elected an LDS member as president. He gave the party establishment a run for their money, but it was always a long shot for George Romney. So it is for his son, Mitt.

In this all-war-is-bad atmosphere, even if the war is in self-defense, the idea of another businessman, like George Bush, taking over the country scares the beakers out of me. How many Mulligans do we get with this Pentagon/CIA/FBI thing, especially if the Dems get the White House?

During my corporate career I worked for high-level executives (two CEOs of international corporations, a major ad agency owner, and some other very interesting people up and down the line) as a secretary/legal assistant to corporate counsel/technical and copywriter. Almost every one of my successful bosses had this is common: they knew how to choose the right person to get the job done. Sometimes, they failed, but not often. Ninety-five percent of them probably got where they were because they broke the code early in their careers, knew how to beat out problems, found the secret to success: find and pay the right people, get existing deadwood out of the system, present and explain the project with passion, get buy in, then delegate. How simple is that? Why, it is pure MBA syllabus material.

Speaking of MBAs, George Bush, the manager, stayed with Donald Rumsfeld because, frankly, Dubya, a businessman, didn't have the experience to run this or any other war. That's another managerial trait I observed: if don't know what you're doing, fake it, then find someone to do it for you...just buy your way out of trouble. The second one is delaying the inevitable action because your fellow managers are also your dad's personal friends.

As a Republican, I hate that precious political capital was wasted by this president because of this hands-off attitude. This tendency to misplace loyalty, by the way, has been a wall over which mavericks, independents and outsiders to the party know they'll never scale. Republicans tend to give the nomination to those who "deserve" it. Like George Bush, because, aw shucks, his dad was such a good guy and good Republican. It's just how it is. Republicans have done this forever and I hate it. Every time I bring it up, inevitably, a young, buttoned-down kid tries to placate me in the most condescending, patronizing languge one would ever hear if he were below the age of 40. It's is what it is. Nothing is new under the sun, thank God.

Meanwhile, Romney got his money from his pop and is a businessman who performed well when he ran the Olympics. He became governor of Massachusetts. As far as I know, he may be just another zillionaire running for president who hasn't been any closer to "knowing" about war--in the biblical sense--or what war really is. He thinks he does.

Am I saying a president should have a nodding acquaintance with things military? Right now, at this time in our history?

Probably. Maybe just a little bit?

Romney's empty suitedness bothers me more than anything. Besides, Governor Romney has broken my cardinal rule: never trust a man whose fingernails and hair look better than your your own (if you're a girl).

Nice manicure, Mitt.

Thanks for the read.