The Mitt Romney documentary was posted free to YouTube by Mitt Romney himself.The freedom he exhibited in giving this film away on YouTube pales to the free access to his life that we enjoy from the intimate view represented in this documentary.
I initially only watched the trailer and still felt the pain and anguish from Mitt and his family as they endured the process of fighting, and ultimately losing the battle. While he exposed some real vulnerability in the making of this film, it has only reignited the question about who is Mitt Romney, and is he electable for the highest post in the land?
My knee jerk reaction to this expose was that it was simply too much. Gravitas typically demands restraint from overly intense moments of sensitivity, nor can you be overly revealing of personal insecurities. After all, you are the head of the free world. In further consideration, I see exactly who Romney is attempting to appeal to with this film and I sense that it is not by chance that we are seeing it now.
According to Mitt Romney and the filmmaker who created the documentary, he could do anything that he wanted with the film footage just as long as he did not release it during a Romney presidency. The assumption of such an agreement was that Romney would win and this would be a really cool inside look at an over achieving man earnestly pursuing a new goal. Since he did not win, the filmmaker was free to use the footage as he saw fit. Are we buying this story, or is there more than meets the eye.
Personally, I am not really sure whether this film ruins his chance at future office or benefits him. In the eyes of those who don't see the strength in being vulnerable, this may have hurt him, but in the eyes of those who appreciate vulnerability, he has gained some image points. Is it pure coincidence that a film that could improve Mitt's "binder full of women" image came along just in time for 2016? Doesn't giving this film out for free on YouTube undermine the filmmakers profit, or has Mitt compensated the film maker to do what he hired him to do all along; get rid of those binders and improve his image among women?
If there is one thing that you learn from this documentary, it should be that campaigning is hard. Hard on the candidate and harder on those who love them. You should also learn that Mitt's family never seemed in favor of what he wanted to do, they are simply in favor of Mitt. The stress that exudes from the camera in the eyes of Mrs. Ann Romney is palpable to say the least. Mrs. Romney suffers from MS and has to maintain a strict medical regimen to keep the disease at bay. When Mitt jokes about using pills to stay calm on the stump, I immediately had visions of where he could get such pills. Yet, in the end I was most convinced about one really noticeable Mitt Romney trait.
Mitt Romney really, really, really hates to lose. No, really.
Enough to run again? Maybe!
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