I've been saying things along the same lines. Believe Mitt is doing well with a lot of women because many do end up unhappily married to the Baracks of this world. In their unhappiness they look at how happy Ann looks and wish they hadn't gone for the cool guy.

This is exactly the story of my life, and I'm glad I chose a Mitt.

Ewhh, I can thankfully say I've never dated a barack. In reference to the mystery man, in my dating day there were not as many down low brothers as there are now. Can you imagine dating a man who throws like a girl, doesn't know he shouldn't ride a girlie bike and wear a helmet--with pictures, a man who always has to have help in everything he does and who walks like a dork? He's too weak for my taste and I would never give someone like him the time of day.

Mitt is definitely a dream husband. He's someone a woman can respect and do things like dress the way he wants her to just to keep him happy. Great father and man with good morals. Oh yeah! That's hot!

Sorry Joy, but O could never, ever be described as the "bad boy" type. Bad boys got bad grades, rode motorcycles, hung with rough people, maybe shot pool in seedy bars, smoked, had a tattoo.

Sliding through prestigious colleges unnoticed, working the black liberal theology angle into every thing he did and hanging curtains at soup kitchens does not make one a bad boy, or even edgy.

I like Joy Overbeck's take on this.

I think Obama is the type we all knew in high school: self-centered, self-absorbed and hung up on being cool so he appeared to be above it all when in reality he was desperate for attention. He only attracted superficial girls. Same type Obama attracts today.

What #4 said. Zippy being a "bad boy" is probably the funniest thing I'll read all day. I married a former bad boy who turned into a really good man.

Cannot even imagine anyone thinking bammy is in anyway attractive. Went to small school and we had no one remotely resembling this ditz. Nor can I imagine any man thinking that the linebacker is attractive. Silly article. Made me laugh though!

I think it was an L-dotter that made the most appropriate comparison: It's Father knows best against Eddie Haskell.

I was just telling a girlfriend the other day: Mitt Romney is about as "ideal" a man as you're ever going to find. Tall, dark, gorgeous, kind -- and rich!

If Mitt Romney didn't exist, Harlequin Romances would have to invent him.

So stinky is "cool" and a "bad boy?"

Sure. Just like li'l chrissy matthews.

What a stupid article. Waste of bandwidth.

This article is about politics, not dating. Dating Obama is a metaphor for flirtatious politics bearing regret in the light of day. .

More like, "I think I'll start hanging with a cool black dude just to shock my parents!" = and just as immature.

This is a useful exercise.
After all we are still trying to figure out who Obama is.
Obama spends a lot of effort and millions of dollars actually hiding who he is.

Maybe just realizing Romney is the boy scout is enough.

I remain convinced that some of the white women who support mr hussein obmaa do so because they would like to turn him.

Tea and sympathy, or something like that.

Some of the ''Barry-like'' guys I knew in HS would never have dated a woman. So, there's that!

The author is mistaking skulking dishonesty with what I call testosterone poisoning.

Testosterone poisoning keeps young male's thoughts focussed on girls, competition, and risky behavior instead of school work.

Barry is a skulking sneak, a flim-flamming liar... an affirmative action Eddie Haskell.

She might be right. I married a wonderful, manly, Dudley Do-Right but when I was in high school I dated a guy similar to obama, a guy who eventually "came out".

I have no idea of how women look at Mr Obama,
but if they judge him to be 'cool', or 'bad', or some such feeling, they are sadly mistaken. As an American citizen, when I
look at him, I see a person whose sole desire is to destroy the future of America. try looking at the inside of the man, not the outside.

Is this author serious? Women regardless of age or race generally like strong men, with confidence, a spine/backbone, intelligent, accomplished and generally larger in size.

~~Barack-Guy: despite his swagger and sparky grin, there was an edge to this guy that made him seem elusive, something of a mystery, which is romantic catnip to us women. He was always late and, as a devoted debunker of social tradition, found the very idea of prom highly mockable. He couldn't help you with your homework because he was usually behind on his. He seemed emotionally withdrawn;~~

Romantic catnip? Nope. Creepy!

Joy is talking about the difference between a fairly normal ego and a pathological narcissist. Not (imo) the difference between macho and manly. Sociopaths have a mystery to young women who are looking to figure out their father. Psychology 101.
The good news is most of us who chose the guy with NPD eventually find a way out.

And I'm not too keen on the Romney-Obama husband comparisons when it comes to choosing a President. Just don't want to go there anymore. The President isn't my daddy, or husband, or anything like a relative. He's the President.

I have worried that Romney isn't dysfunctional enough for America. Uninformed voters want someone more dysfunctional than they.

The story of our political lives...why is it the DIMS always go with the 'bad boy'?

I think it's this overpowering aim to 'fix him', when in reality he takes advantage of you and trashes your life...and so it goes with Obie.

Obama is the closeted gay guy I was in love with in college who loved being seen with me in public but was strangely cold and distant in private.

Mitt is husband material. Barack is choom material. He'd be fun to go clubbing with, but making a committment to him? No way.

#24, I'm not so sure he's closeted.

He's at least lightly closeted #26 or he wouldn't be toting the Sasquatch around. But I agree the information is all out there. Kevin Dujan at Hillbuzz.org says he knew lots women who refused to believe that Liberace was gay and totally fell for the PR line that he was just waiting for the right woman to come along.

I liked this (fun) article. Choose the good guy and you're heart won't get broken.