Business Insider: 'Mitt Romney's October Surprise Is Going To Be Legendary'

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11. If this is their strategy, it will go down in history as the dumbest strategy in

modern American politics. Conversely, Plouffe and Axelrod's strategy to spend big early, depend on huge late contributions, and define Romney in the industrial Midwest with a summer negative campaign will go down in history as the most brilliant response to Romney's cash advantage.

Romney can have $500 million on hand. He can't buy back the way he's been defined. he might look to the way he flooded Gingrich and Santorum in the primaries as some kind of parallel case, but he'd be desperately wrong: President Obama is not a Gingrich or a Santorum, in either resources or campaign skill. If that's their model, we'll see plenty of books titled "Miscalculation" and the like, doing post mordems on the campaign.

Far more likely is that Romney is actually going to run low on cash as the Big Money abandons him, and that this column is nothing more than a desperate attempt to keep the base from abandoning the election and those downticket races.