Does Mitt Romney Have Sex Appeal?
via Mitt Romney’s Sex Appeal and the “Wimp” Cover « Acculturated.
Does Mitt Romney have sex appeal? Does he need it to win?
That this campaign has been dubbed the dullest campaign ever cuts like a knife into Romney’s most serious defect: he seems so totally boring and uncharismatic. This has led at least one person to ask if Mitt Romney can make boring sexy. If America is a sexy bitch, as Meghan McCain and Michael Ian Black call our country, then will she be willing to go all the way with Romney come November 4?
These were the questions running through my head upon reading the Newsweek cover story on Mitt Romney’s alleged wimpiness. What immediately struck me about the Newsweek “wimp” cover is that it was an attack on Mitt Romney’s sexuality above all–his manliness.
It isn’t fine that Romney has changed his view on every issue. It’s pathetic. It suggests that he lives in fear of America’s right wing. That’s the real wimp factor.
Calling a guy a wimp is like calling him a sissy. Asking, rhetorically, if Romney is too insecure to be president serves one aim: It’s meant to strike down the one quality that every man needs to have to be considered manly: confidence. In the last election cycle, Obama overflowed with confidence, so much so that he, at times, seemed petulant and cocky. Better that, though, than the alternative. No one wants to see a potential president get emasculated.
It’s important to think about a candidate’s sex appeal, because sex appeal matters, especially among women voters. Back in 2008, Obama’s sex appeal was inescapable and it’s what carried him into his historic victory.
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Newsweek still has a print edition? Who knew?
I mean, I can’t even find one in my dentist’s waiting room any more.
If by “sex appeal,” you mean the ability to feed and clothe children, then yes, Romney has sex appeal.
Obama, not so much.
Agreed. The photo of him with Mrs. R and the 5 youngsters sitting on the sofa together … dreamy. Also, Romney looks healthy; if Obama were a female Hollywood starlet, there would be gossip about her eating disorders, gag me (heh).
Is Newsweek still a thing? I haven’t thought about them in quite a while. And you know what… I didn’t miss them.
Oh, for the Love of Life Orchestra. This is little different from “Would you want to drink beer with this candidate?” And if that’s the basis on which we Americans are choosing our leadership, then we deserve to go down, and go down hard, because it’d mean we’re a nation of superficial morons.
Compared to the last GOP candidate, he has a surfeit of sex appeal. Women will be attracted to vote for Romney because he looks like a man they would like to have. He has it all, looks, integrity, and money.
You make a great point. It makes me wonder if Obama’s support will be much weaker among women than polls indicate. After all, Romney has all the qualities of the alpha male that women are supposedly attracted to, even though many so-called feminists would deny it; by contrast, what does Obama offer? Obama is a bitter beta male who is easily pushed around by women like Valerie Jarrett and Michelle; what’s worse, he’s always making excuses for his many failures. You’d think that sooner or later more women would wise up and vote for the one with character and a history of accomplishments. That he’s a good-looking fellow, too, should only be icing on the cake.
That picture of him on the old person bike in mom jeans.
Uhhh…maybe I only speak for conservative, traditional women here, but a man who not only takes care of his wife and his children, but wears suits and ties? Of course he’s sexy. He’s a real man. I don’t see a wimp. Go look at the picture of Obama attempting to walk his own dog. There is a wimp. Even the dog bosses him around.
This one: http://www.funnyobamas.com/pictures/Out_Walking_The_Dog.jpg