Two masterful strategic moves by a brilliant political operation.

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19. DING DING DING! Grantcart, you're our grand prize winner!

Senator Reid...calls Romney out, basically calling him a liar on his taxes...(N)ow Romney's time is going to be consumed by a day-by-day school yard fight...

The problem for Romney is that...Reid...is not perceived as being a very macho alpha dog, he is not Presidential. So Romney is wasting his time having to answer charges and get into a fight with a politician that simply doesn't seem that strong...

But "not seeming that strong" has always been Reid's stock-in-trade.

Reid has never had me fooled -- I "called him out" six years ago, and right here on DU:

There seems to be much more to Reid than meets the eye. And I'm seeing that his nerdy, unimposing, milquetoast demeanor is a velvet glove disguising an iron first...(H)e's as mousy as a tiger!

Now I'm supposed to believe that Reid's accusation is a well-intentioned but poorly-strategized partisan attack at best, and a potentially self-destructive "senior moment" at worst? Of course he has an ulterior motive, and of course he isn't doing this without Obama's blessing. But WHY Reid -- why was HE tasked with this mission?

What you said.


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