“[Mitt] Romney’s campaign was full of phony appeals to the Everyman voter, and this unusual observation was seen as yet another wooden attempt to appear human. For me, though, that line is pure poetry,” writes HansonOHaver
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Pundits made a cottage industry out of pouncing on “Romneyisms,” but there was one coinage for which he deserves some credit. Seemingly whenever he was in Michigan, his place of birth, he would tell the crowd that the state is where “the trees are the right height.” Bloggers were baffled. “Mitt Romney Won’t Stop Talking About Michigan Trees” “What’s the Deal With Mitt Romney and Michigan Trees?” “Just Why Does Mitt Romney Love Michigan’s Trees?” “Michigan Tree Experts Stumped by Romney Claims.
A poem can do many things — protest, evoke a mood, tell a story, etc. — but one of the most poignant is to make the reader consider the mundane anew. When Romney says that Michigan is where “the trees are the right height,” he’s describing the landscape of his childhood. In one more explicit version, he goes on to add, “The grass is the right color for this time of year, kind of a brownish-greenish sort of thing. It just feels right.
That all changed when I heard Romney’s words. Now I can’t stop thinking about the landscape of my childhood.
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