Disenchantment with Romney

When you’re a Republican candidate running for the White House, there’s an endorser who you generally cannot pass up: Rupert Murdoch. Even if the Australian magnate recently had several troubles across the Fox News Channel, he nevertheless remains its boss, as well as that of the New York Post and the Wall Street Journal.

However, an excellent New York Times article emphasized this morning that Murdoch doesn’t like Mitt Romney. But the matter is not entirely so.

In private, Murdoch believes that Mitt Romney has neither the conviction nor the courage to take on Obama. In one of his latest tweets, Murdoch underlines that the team of pros who surround Obama will be difficult to defeat and bluntly suggests that the ex-Massachusetts governor change his entire campaign team!

The New York Times reveals further that when Romney recently visited the Wall Street Journal, everyone was left unsatisfied, no one was convinced by the candidate and the editorial staff started to call him “the consultant in chief.”

Otherwise, the Wall Street Journal lashed out directly and violently toward Mitt Romney in an editorial this week, assuring that he is “slowly squandering an historic opportunity… Mr. Obama is being hurt by an economic recovery that is weakening for the third time in three years. But Mr. Romney hasn’t been able to take advantage, and if anything, he is losing ground.”

All of this underlines one more time how much Romney has not come to convince conservatives who don’t believe in him and say so openly. “He’s a nondescript candidate, without a lot of charisma and especially without great ideas,” a slightly weary New York Republican confided to us recently.

This week was marked otherwise by Romney’s difficulty to react in reference to the Supreme Court’s decision to support Obama’s health care reform. The ex-Massachusetts governor strongly attacked the decision, before tripping over his words when journalists started to remind him that he had himself passed a similar law in Massachusetts.

A sign that does not deceive: American television is broadcasting Romney’s speeches less and less. The speeches are all the same and make any generally sane person wish to take a nap.

“What’s missing in all of this, it’s really a little enthusiasm. Nobody wants to get enthusiastic for this guy,” summed up our New York Republican.