Mitt Romney failed to impress actress
Jane Lynch, who plays coach Sue Sylvester on the Fox musical-comedy
Glee.
According to POLITICO.com,
Lynch met Romney in Daytona Beach, Florida on Sunday at an event
leading up to the NASCAR Daytona 500 auto race.
“It was like small talk, but he
didn't really hear a word I said,” she said. “It affirmed for me
that the guy does not know how to relate to people.”
The openly gay Lynch has previously
criticized President Barack Obama's leadership, in particular as it
relates to gay rights.
In 2010, she accused the president of
moving too slow on repeal of “Don't Ask, Don't Tell.”
“I think it should be abolished,”
Lynch
told iReport blogger Chris Morrow. “And it doesn't look like
Obama, our fella, is going to do that right away. He's taking his
time.”
The Emmy winner is now defending
Obama's record.
“He's one of those people who moves
slowly, so at first I was like come on, get a move on,” she told
POLITICO.com. “But he's done great things – rescued the car
industry, killed Osama bin Laden – and the right doesn't want to
give him any credit for it.”
She added that she believes Obama will
win a second term because the GOP is “a party that's having a huge
identity crisis.”
(Related: Jane
Lynch believes President Obama supports gay marriage.)