Mitt Romny became Obama's official rival

Ex-governor Massachusetts Mitt Romnie became a candidate for US president. On August 28, the Republicans at the party congress in Florida officially nominated his candidacy . Romney gained 2 thousand 61 votes with a required minimum of 1 thousand 144 votes. His rivals in the primaries - members of the House of Congress Representatives Ron Paul and Michel Bakman, as well as the former Senator Rick Santorum - received much less support for single -party people.

Mitt Romni and Anne Romny. Photo: Mittromney.com

As expected, Mitt Romnie will make a speech on August 30, and yesterday the wife of presidential candidate Anne Romny spoke about her husband from the stands of the Tampa Bay Times forum sports palace. According to the observers, one of the goals of her performance was to “soften” Mitt Romny’s image, behind whom there was a reputation as a few dry and even arrogant person, a multimillionaire businessman who is not easy to find a common language with ordinary citizens, Radio Liberty reports.

Willard Mitt Romney was born on March 12, 1947 in Detroit. According to the Air Force , at first glance Romny is an ideal candidate of Republicans, who are customary to associate with wealth and nobility. So, Romni comes from a good family - his father , George Romni was the governor of Michigan and the Minister of Housing in Washington E, and also held the general director in the American Motors automobile corporation.

Romnie himself graduated from Harvard University in 1975, receiving the degree of Doctor of Law and Master of Business Administration (MBA). In his youth, a US presidential candidate was a Mormon missionary in France, and in his student years he worked as a security guard at the Chrysler factory. He seriously got rich in the 1990s, heading the investment company Bain Capital.

In general, Romny is the richest presidential candidate in the upcoming elections. His fortune is estimated at $ 250 million. In 2002, he headed the organizing committee of the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, and, by the general opinion, saved them from bankruptcy-Romny and his wife invested 1 billion dollars of personal funds in the organization of the Winter Olympiad.

During the governorship in Massachusetts in 2003-2007, Mitt did about the same with the state. He came when the budget lacked $ 600 million for current needs, and left his post when exceeding income over costs by almost $ 700 million. As a governor, Romni was the first in the United States to introduce compulsory medical insurance in Massachusetts. Three years later, Barack Obama will make this the main goal of his health care reform .

Nevertheless, many Republicans do not like Romney and do not trust him, noting that he has repeatedly changed his position on key issues. After Romni put forward his candidacy to participate in the primaries , old notes began to appear, on which he spoke much more liberally about abortion and same -sex marriages. However, with the entry into the election race, Romny began to demonstrate tightening his eyes. According to the Political people, this is caused by the desire to bring a share of populism into the campaign.

Advertising poster Mitta Romny.

Observers agree that Romny is a really effective manager and is able to solve problems of any level, but he lacks charisma. Judging by the recent polls of public opinion, most Americans believe that the current President of Barack Obama has great personal charm than Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romny and Barack Obama. Photo: Businessinsider.com

Of course, the current candidate from the Republicans is not as tongue-tied as George Bush Jr. , but Romny is considered a boring speaker, which means that it will be difficult for him to compete on the debate with Obama. The ill-wishers noticed that during the triumphal speech of Romny, after the vote in Aiov, even four of his sons, standing behind him on the rostrum, looked as if they were about to fall asleep.

Romni, perhaps, is not an ideal candidate, but, according to the republican elite, he quite earned the nomination. Republicans, being conservatives, are used to choose candidates for seniority and previous merits. As the Air Force recalls, in 1996 they nominated a completely hopeless senator Robert Dowl, who lost to Bill Clinton and then advertised Viagra on TV. Last time, the Republicans made a choice in favor of the elderly Senator John McCain and he eventually lost to Obama.

In general, the representative of the religious minority for the first time claims the post of president of the United States. The Romni family professes the religion of Mormons and belongs to the main Mormon denomination - the Church of the Saints of the last days. However, experts note that all American presidents were Christians, and religious affiliation is unlikely to play Romny into the hands.

As the public opinion polls show among the American Christian believers, from a quarter to a third of them they are not ready to agree to the Mormone President, the RIA Novosti website reports. Political scientist Andrei Fedyashin draws attention to the fact that Mormons are also Christians, however, outside their communities to the followers of the Church of the Saints of the last days, a biased or even suspicious attitude is still maintained. Moreover, Romni cannot be called an ordinary Mormon - at one time he was a bishop of the district, and then the chairman of the diocese.

Mitt Romni has not yet offered alternatives to Obama’s economic course, but is already known for his very categorical statements about the foreign policy of the current president and indeed quite often acts with his criticism. In 2010, his book was published “No apology: in support of the American greatness: The Case for American Greatness), in which Romny set out in detail the basic, in his opinion, geopolitical tasks of the United States. The candidate from the Republicans is confident that during the reign of Obama the country lost its dominant place in the world, and therefore it was necessary to enorm in America and force everyone to respect the United States again.

Republicans. Photo: Mittromney.com

Romni and his supporters do not pay the last place to relations with Russia and evenmake high -profile statements about this. So, the ex-governor of Massachusetts is categorically against the “rebooting” policy, which is supported by the Obama administration, and generally considers Russia to be the main opponents of the United States along with the DPRK, Iran and China. In March, Romni even called Russia an “enemy number one”, which caused a negative reaction from Dmitry Medvedev, who advised the US presidential candidate “turn on the arguments of reason”.

Another fundamental difference in the positions of Obama and Romney concerns the situation with the legalization of same -sex marriages. Recall that in the spring Barack Obama advocated the legalization of same -sex relationships and thus became the first president of the United States, who publicly supported marriages between lesbians and homosexuals. In turn, Mitt Romney, who met his wife in primary school and has five adult sons and 18 grandchildren with her, adheres to traditional views on the family. While still the governor of Massachusetts, he sharply criticized the legalization of homosexual marriages, adopted by the Supreme Court of the state, and, according to him, is an opponent of same -sex relations to now.

It is already known that due to such a fundamental position, Romny lost several voters. At first, his former classmates, who are now supporting the Democrats, said that the US presidential candidate in high school mocked peers for a “homosexual appearance” and boasted his origin. Subsequently, Romny's neighbors, the couples of gays, also admitted that they were outraged by the presence of homophobes in their “progressive area” and will vote for Obama.

As expected, the Democrats are officially nominated Obama next week, at a party congress in the city of Charlotte (North Carolina). In accordance with the survey conducted in August, CNN, Mitt Romny, is seconded to the current president by 7 percent of the vote. Back in July, the gap between the applicants was smaller and was only 3 percent. The US presidential election will be held on November 6, 2012.