The left is now going to come out and say Bain is off the table. Something about how wrong it is to bring up the past.
However, they will also demand that Reverend Wright is off the table.
In the game of chess, that would be like sacrificing a pawn (Wright) in exchange for a queen (Bain).
If Bain is off the table, what exactly is left for Obama to attack Romney on? His high school pranks? Fine. All Romney has to do is offer to produce his high school transcripts in exchange for Obama doing the same. What? Obama's high school records are "sealed". Okay...I guess they can go ahead and take high school pranks off the table...
Bain Capital was supposed to be Romney's Achilles heel. According to some hot shots here, Romney was going to be exposed as a mean capitalist in a blizzard of autumn TV ads, resulting in a 40-point blowout for Obama, because don't you know, most Americans just hate risk-takers and job-creators.
But if Romney's campaign was able to produce a positive ad on Bain Capital - using video from several of Obama's own supporters, on less than 24 hour notice, one can only imagine how much more of that is out there.
What is left for Obama to attack Romney on, if not Bain?
As for Obama, over the past three years, he has provided a rich vein of material for the Romney campaign to make use of from his wife's costly vacations to the endless rounds of golf to the total ineptness of his presidency. And remember the famous Dukakis in a tank ads from 1988? All Romney's campaign has to do is show Obama slurping an ice-cream cone or trying to ride a bicycle. What a dweeb we have as a president.
