of the common ma , plooit of the coupon man. the problem is mr. romney is pretending to be a common man, the way kids pretend when they say bang you re dead. that s not good acting. it fails. he doesn t even want to sample their cupcakes. if they re not homemade, he doesn t want to try them. that s not saying anything against him. it s saying to him, for heaven s sake, admit, you keep saying it s okay to be rich. fine we agree with you. you grew up rich. you were born with a silver spoon flur mouth. we don t envoy that. we admire it. but leave the rest of alone. you can t pretend to be what you re not. the carefully creased jeans and the bespoke jacket up top, it s a bad is it acting pretending to be what you re not? you have to play your role. no, no, no, acting is not pretending. look, i was dean emeritus of the