Obama Weighs 2 Tactics on Romney
By HELENE COOPER
NYT
WASHINGTON — Now that Mitt Romney has squeaked through with the narrowest of victories in the Iowa caucuses, President Obama and his campaign aides are facing a conundrum as they decide how to tarnish the man they see as their likely opponent in the battle ahead.
Do they go the flip-flopper route? Or do they go the out-of-touch, protector-of-Wall-Street route?
The two tactics are not necessarily mutually exclusive, and in fact, the president’s re-election proponents have in recent days been gleefully highlighting both aspects of Mr. Romney’s public persona.
In one portrayal, he is the one-percenter Wall Street type — witness the Democrats’ display in Iowa this past weekend of a worker who was laid off from a company that was restructured by Bain Capital on Mr. Romney’s watch. That portrait makes him out to be a conservative ideologue.
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NYT
WASHINGTON — Now that Mitt Romney has squeaked through with the narrowest of victories in the Iowa caucuses, President Obama and his campaign aides are facing a conundrum as they decide how to tarnish the man they see as their likely opponent in the battle ahead.
Do they go the flip-flopper route? Or do they go the out-of-touch, protector-of-Wall-Street route?
The two tactics are not necessarily mutually exclusive, and in fact, the president’s re-election proponents have in recent days been gleefully highlighting both aspects of Mr. Romney’s public persona.
In one portrayal, he is the one-percenter Wall Street type — witness the Democrats’ display in Iowa this past weekend of a worker who was laid off from a company that was restructured by Bain Capital on Mr. Romney’s watch. That portrait makes him out to be a conservative ideologue.
(More here.)
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2 Comments:
Wouldn't it be wonderful if Obama would run on his record?
There is another approach that could be considered ... it was the one that Norm Coleman tried late in his 2008 Senate campaign ... being a counter-balance on the other party.
Considering the potential that the Senate could return to Republican control and the House being retained by the TEA Party Caucus, the question would be who do you want as a counter-balance ? Democrat Obama would be able to suggest compromise is a possiblity but he would have the threat of the veto while Republican Romney would be powerless against the TEA Party philosphy pushed by Jim DeMint and Jim Jordan.
Romney has no creditablity on any issue and is being run as a "Trojan Horse" candidate ... Rommey represents returning the "adults" to being in charge.
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