If the idiots running Romney's campaign had listened to me, they wouldn't be in this position. How do you take the summer off, let the Obama slime machine attack you endlessly without responding, fail to get the message about the "failed Obama economy" out every single day and fail to do anything at all to deconstruct the media fairy tale of who Mr. Hope and Change really is? Beats me, but then I don't like losing.
Anyway, tonight is pretty much Romney's only chance. He has to attack, and he has to make the focal point of that attack the economy. Luckily, Obama knows nothing about the economy, business or finance, so it should be like debating with a child.
We know Obama will lie about all the jobs he created or "saved." We know he will lie about the debt and deficit. Romney will respond and people's eyes will gradually glaze over.
The one place Romney can score however is when Obama blurts out his signature line:" Romney wants to go back to the policies of the past that produced this situation."
Romney should say, "Barrack, I'm glad you brought that up. Those policies of low taxes, sound money and minimizing regulatory burdens produced nearly 30 years of unbroken prosperity, ever since Ronald Reagan took office. The crisis we suffered was caused, not by those policies, but by a housing bubble inflated and sustained by the Federal Reserve. You just reappointed the Chairman who presided over it. The financial crisis was made immeasurably worse by reckless policies at the government sponsored mortgage lenders, Fannie and Freddie. President Bush tried dozens of times to rein them in but was stymied by you, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. That interference ended up costing taxpayers several trillion dollars, and we're still counting.
Now you've saddled the economy with ridiculous burdens from regulations issued by the EPA. Gasoline is double what it was when you took office, and your war on coal is not only costing miners jobs but will raise electricitry costs through the roof. And of course, the biggest dead weight on the economy is Obamacare, your signature achievement.
Yes, we must avoid the polciies of the past that got us in this fix, but those polciies are yours, Barrack."
Anyway, tonight is pretty much Romney's only chance. He has to attack, and he has to make the focal point of that attack the economy. Luckily, Obama knows nothing about the economy, business or finance, so it should be like debating with a child.
We know Obama will lie about all the jobs he created or "saved." We know he will lie about the debt and deficit. Romney will respond and people's eyes will gradually glaze over.
The one place Romney can score however is when Obama blurts out his signature line:" Romney wants to go back to the policies of the past that produced this situation."
Romney should say, "Barrack, I'm glad you brought that up. Those policies of low taxes, sound money and minimizing regulatory burdens produced nearly 30 years of unbroken prosperity, ever since Ronald Reagan took office. The crisis we suffered was caused, not by those policies, but by a housing bubble inflated and sustained by the Federal Reserve. You just reappointed the Chairman who presided over it. The financial crisis was made immeasurably worse by reckless policies at the government sponsored mortgage lenders, Fannie and Freddie. President Bush tried dozens of times to rein them in but was stymied by you, Barney Frank and Chris Dodd. That interference ended up costing taxpayers several trillion dollars, and we're still counting.
Now you've saddled the economy with ridiculous burdens from regulations issued by the EPA. Gasoline is double what it was when you took office, and your war on coal is not only costing miners jobs but will raise electricitry costs through the roof. And of course, the biggest dead weight on the economy is Obamacare, your signature achievement.
Yes, we must avoid the polciies of the past that got us in this fix, but those polciies are yours, Barrack."