Mitt's Achilles Heel

Many people think that Mitt Romney's major weakness is his Mormon religion.  Perhaps it will be a hindrance in a few primaries in the South but in the general election in November it will be a non-factor. Romney, given this religion liability, will pick a vice presidential running mate who has evangelical credentials and whose main purpose in the election will be to rally this electoral segment.  At this early point in time I would predict Perry or Santorum.  We'll see........

His biggest negative as I have previously written,  is his career at CEO of Bain Capital - a venture capital and private equity firm in Boston that specializes in downsizing and streamlining corporations in which it invests, takes private and then in a few years plans to sell or take public in an IPO.  Bain's primary tactic in restructuring in order to make the company as profitable as possible.  If the company is in the manufacturing sector, you can bet that offshoring manufacturing is at the top of the restructuring program.  At the moment, the Democrats are analyzing every Bain deal and Romney will be positioned as the candidate of greedy and rapacious Wall Street.  Every poor person who lost a job due to Bain restructurings will be videotaped and used in crucial states such as Michigan or Ohio.   The nomination of Romney is the equivalent of giving the candidate Obama fastballs down the middle of the plate in the months leading up to the election.

In the final analysis, Romney is the worst possible candidate for the GOP to nominate is these perilous economic times when 1 out of 6 Americans lives below the poverty line.

As you can see in the video below, it has already started.