WALL ST JOURNAL: Romney "Is Letting Them (Conservatives) Down"

[kpete]

If Mitt Romney loses his run for the White House, a turning point will have been his decision Monday to absolve President Obama of raising taxes on the middle class. He is managing to turn the only possible silver lining in Chief Justice John Roberts's ObamaCare salvage operation—that the mandate to buy insurance or pay a penalty is really a tax—into a second political defeat.

Perhaps Mr. Romney is slowly figuring this out, because in a July 4 interview he stated himself that the penalty now is a "tax" after all. But he offered no elaboration, and so the campaign looks confused in addition to being politically dumb.

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The biography that voters care about is their own, and they want to know how a candidate is going to improve their future. That means offering a larger economic narrative and vision than Mr. Romney has so far provided. It means pointing out the differences with specificity on higher taxes, government-run health care, punitive regulation, and the waste of politically-driven government spending.

Mr. Romney promised Republicans he was the best man to make the case against President Obama, whom they desperately want to defeat. So far Mr. Romney is letting them down.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304141204577506652734793044.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

[katsy]

1. Maybe the follow-up to dubya

should have been someone with an IQ.



Put mitt the nitwitt on 24/7 and President Obama will have it made.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. Now that he claims that ACA imposes a tax

(albeit only those whom can afford but choose not to purchase insurance), he's fessed up to doing it himself in addition to looking confused and incompetent by stepping on his own campaign spokesperson. Look for the spokesperson to find himself unemployed very soon. After all, Romney loves firing people!!!

[wandy]

3. One or Romney's problems is he's a touch slow on picking up the party line...

Same mistake Newt made when he forgot that the Ryan budget wasn't the greatest thing since sliced bread.
As Romney is the great BlueBlood hope, they verry well can't trash him the way they trashed Newt.
They have to take him off to the side and preach the bible of the lead elephant.
Mittens don't you understand......
FOX told them it's a tax.
Rush told them it's a tax.
Common Mitt, get with the program!

[yellowcanine]

4. "...the campaign looks confused in addition to being politically dumb...." WSJ gets it right once.

Just like clockwork.....

[harun]

6. I disagree. Romney is switching out of RW nutjob gear and in to the Center.

Those positions will help him there.

[yellowcanine]

7. Actually they are trying to do both. Hence the confusion.

[harun]

8. Sucks to be him.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. "the waste of politically-driven government spending"

Ummm... [font color = "red" size="5"]like 2 WARS that cost taxpayers 1 TRILLION DOLLARS?[/font]