Mitt Romney's options, now that his pesky sideshow
sidekicks are out of the way, include the opportunity to redefine himself,
Etch-a-Sketch style, for general consumption. Instead, in the days since
their demise, he has continued only to offer his robo-style attacks on
President Obama as "a failed president." As the Washington Post
put it, "Romney has long attempted to paint Obama as a failed president whose
policies have slowed the economic recovery while enlarging the government and
building up deficits and debt."
While prospective voters have heard the sound of Romney's voice for months now,
they have virtually no idea what he actually stands for, except for his promise
to shrink the federal government. All they really know about him is what
he stood for as Governor of Massachusetts, and that's all so nineties, so lefty , now. "
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