The real Mitt Romney and why the American right can take heart

Iain Duncan Smith last night threw his weight behind Mitt Romney in a manner his colleagues have been reluctant to do. He told Pienaar’s Politics that he was unimpressed with the ‘appalling’ way the British media was covering the presidential race, saying:

‘I think the American election has been appallingly reported really over here in the UK, I think it’s misrepresented the whole nature of it. The reality is that either candidate has a real job to do. The idea – the demonisation of Mitt Romney over here has been appalling really. I’ve met many of his people, you know, they may have faults, all politicians have faults, this is a guy that actually ran a state very well, he got the debt and deficit down, he’s turned around businesses.

‘Whatever else you say about this man, he’s not stupid, and he’s made out to be stupid over here and he’s quite capable of running stuff… My problem with this is that they don’t explain the nature of the UK, of the USA, of the changes and shifts and the religious nature and the rest of it… it’s always rather sneery, the reporting, as though somehow they are a very unsophisticated bunch of people.