I agree that Romney has got to go for the jugular. He certainly had no trouble doing that during the campaign, when he ran negative, personal attack ads on his opponents and destroyed them even without even having any program of his own to offer.
He obviously can’t get that personal about Obama but he could certainly attack him heavily on his record.
One of the biggest problems with this is that any criticism of Obama is immediately labeled as racist by the Dems. As I posted earlier, I read that there were buses at the DNC that had big banners saying “Don’t Disrespect My President.” So the Dems are trying to insulate Obama by implying that any criticism of him is “dissin’ a brother.” Putting aside the fact that Obama has absolutely nothing except what appears to be a suntan in common with his supposed “brothers,” the Dems have been very effective in intimidating opponents with this.
Romney may not want to win for ideological reasons, actually, but he definitely wants to be President of the US, and he wants it so bad that he’s spent part of his personal fortune and the last several years doing nothing else but lining up his campaign. So if he really wants it, he’d better get moving ASAP.
Romney needs to hammer the message of Obama failure and that the most pressing issue is the economy, jobs and out of control government growth & spending. So far he’s not done a very good job of that (imho)
The DNC is pushing abortion and women’s “rights” because it sure can’t tout Obama’s economic record or his failure to close Gitmo or to get us out of Afghanistan