If .......

[imreallyperplexed]

If RMoney is so inept in delivering an effective vision and agenda for the United States of America as a candidate with millions stashed in overseas banks and nothing to do but run for President, how much more inept will he be if he has to work at the job of POTUS full time? Can he walk and chew gum at the same time?

Alas, the White House is not a corporate boardroom where all the deals are handled behind closed doors.

Mitt Romney: Not Ready for Prime Time

 

[BitterPill]

If RMoney is so inept in delivering an effective vision and agenda for the United States of America as a candidate with millions stashed in overseas banks and nothing to do but run for President, how much more inept will he be if he has to work at the job of POTUS full time? Can he walk and chew gum at the same time?

Alas, the White House is not a corporate boardroom where all the deals are handled behind closed doors.

Mitt Romney: Not Ready for Prime Time

His campaign is floundering. He needs to move to the center and quick or else it's all over. Problem is in the how. As it is, he can't tout his signature legislative achievement as governor, and his time at Bain is more liability than strength.

That's why I suspect he'll choose a real culture warrior for running mate. One whose bona fides pass the evangelical tea party smell test, and one whose personality won't outstrip the pedestrian, plodding Romney. My bet is on that Governor from Virginia, McDowell I think his name is.

If Romney were to do so, his right flank would be secured somewhat and the tea partiers mollified to a degree so that Romney can stop acting like a loon and be himself -- his real self being both moderate and conservative. The kind of person who would legislate a mandate in the first place.

 

[imreallyperplexed]

Romney's problems are - in many ways - similar to Boehner's with the newbies in the House. Even if he wanted to be a moderate conservative, he could not get the (so-called) conservatives to compromise. Democrats are not going to deal with him because Romney will no more be able to deliver Republicans than Boehner could to a deal that Democrats might accept. Another reason that I think that he is not ready for prime time. (Obama seems to be able to deliver Democrats.)

His campaign is floundering. He needs to move to the center and quick or else it's all over. Problem is in the how. As it is, he can't tout his signature legislative achievement as governor, and his time at Bain is more liability than strength.

That's why I suspect he'll choose a real culture warrior for running mate. One whose bona fides pass the evangelical tea party smell test, and one whose personality won't outstrip the pedestrian, plodding Romney. My bet is on that Governor from Virginia, McDowell I think his name is.

If Romney were to do so, his right flank would be secured somewhat and the tea partiers mollified to a degree so that Romney can stop acting like a loon and be himself -- his real self being both moderate and conservative. The kind of person who would legislate a mandate in the first place.

 

[JuliefromOhio]

Romney can stop acting like a loon and be himself -- his real self being both moderate and conservative. The kind of person who would legislate a mandate in the first place.

he can try to move to the center, but the repub base and the Obama camp won't let him.

frankly, there's no reason to believe that underneath Romney lurks a moderate. anyone who would present himself as "more liberal than Ted Kennedy" in one campaign and then "severely conservative" in another should be run out of politics altogether. all he's done is present himself as a chameleon, a fake.