IS ROMNEY BLOWING
A WINNABLE ELECTION?

By: John LeBoutillier

The 2012 presidential election remains Romney’s to lose.

The deteriorating economy is President Obama’s albatross – and should be enough to defeat him on November 6th.

But – and it is a significant “but” – Mitt Romney has yet to convert this inherent advantage into an asset. Why not? Because Romney seems to be a step slow politically. It is alarming to see a few things:

• The President – as a candidate – not as a president – is a far superior political candidate than Romney.

• He is hungrier.

• He switches tactics on a dime.

• He and his campaign are setting the tone and terms of each week’s debate.

• Overall, Team Obama is playing a weak hand much better than Team Romney is playing their far stronger hand.

Now, let’s look at what is wrong with Romney:

• He is a wooden, stiff, stilted candidate;

• On the stump and in TV interviews, he cannot connect with anyone;

• He has clearly lost sight of who he really is: a non-ideological problem-solver;

• Instead he has twisted and turned himself into trying to sound like something he clearly is not: a true-blue conservative;

• This turn-into-a-pretzel maneuver is forefront in his head at all times; he is constantly afraid to deviate from the Right – even when the Right is wrong, i.e. on Simpson Bowles, taxes-on-the-rich, and Pentagon spending cuts;

• Team Romney is awful. They are the single worst challenging campaign team – ever – in the modern era;

• They are slow; they are sloppy and un-disciplined – just look at the horrible behavior of the Romney travelling press secretary in Israel and Poland;

• They are stupid, i.e. the Etch-A-Sketch and “It’s not a tax” pronouncements of Eric Fehrnstrom;