Romney in a pickle [View all]
Republicans are wishing they could retroactively nominate someone else.
Instead, they’ve picked a guy, in Mitt Romney, who reads like a caricature of every stereotype of an arrogant, out-of-touch Wall Street conservative, someone labeled a “vulture capitalist” by members of his own party.
Romney never planned to run on his record as governor of Massachusetts. That would mean campaigning on his signature accomplishment, RomneyCare, which (in its ObamaCare guise) he is now sworn to attack. Clearly, his business record would have to serve as his ticket to the White House. Yet Romney appears shocked that the accolades he receives in boardrooms and skyboxes aren’t translating to mass popular appeal.
Indeed, his business background is turning out to be so toxic that Newt Gingrich nearly derailed Romney’s coronation by winning South Carolina on the strength of an anti-Bain message.
If attacking Romney’s private equity buccaneering was so effective with a hyper-conservative electorate in the country’s most conservative state, how did Republicans expect it to resonate in the general election?
more: http://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/markos-moulitas/238507-romney-in-a-pickle
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