In light of Mitt Romney's decision to suspend his campaign, I have been giving thought to some of the factors that served to undermine him. Certainly John McCain enjoyed much greater name recognition among voters. Mike Huckabee's base of evangelicals served to drain away conservative support to a degree. Romney hurt his own cause by "evolving" from moderate to conservative views on key issues. Two overlooked but no less important hindrances: envy and bigotry. Mitt Romney is a handsome man with an attractive wife, five theoretically perfect children with their own "perfect" lives, and hundreds of millions of dollars. These facts apparently drove his fellow candidates mad with envy and led them to conspire with each other to drive Romney from the race. If true this fact should make none of them proud. Last but not least, Romney's Mormon faith was definitely stumbling block. According to respected pollsters Peter Hart and Bill McInturff as quoted in part in The Wall Street Journal, "The Romney Campaign ran into "a religious bias head wind,""
So, ironically, as this election season moves ahead and Americans ponder electing either a white woman or a black man as their next president, the white guy lost because he was too rich and too Mormon.
And so it goes....