He is bad at fictionalizing himself. Because with all the spin and half-truths and broad strokes and projections of toughness that candidates are forced to live within, they are not only creating fictions, working in fictional universes, but becoming fictional themselves. Romney is merely the starkest example of this: he writes himself into being with each campaign according to what his readers want him to be. For gay rights and a woman’s right to choose? Against gay marriage and more pro-life than the next guy? Yes, and yes. For universal health care? Yes. Against universal health care? Yes. A moderate against all this destructive partisan hyperbole? A reasonable, sophisticated man? A right-wing warrior who understands that our union is gravely threatened by Hollywood, France, and moral relativism? Yes, yes, yes. The existence of multiple Romneys is not the fiction he is trying to create, of course. He is trying to write the new over the old. But he isn’t a good novelist. Or, rather, he isn’t a good novel.
— Daniel Halpern, Fifty Shades of Gray: Mitt Romney as Bad Fiction
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