I agree. The Obama team never thought Romney would go bold. With Ryan on the stump and Romney driving home the aggressive message, they can stay on the offensive all fall.
Obama/Axelrod wanted to drive Romney into a never ending series of defensive positions by making one scurrilous attack after another. The problem for Romney was he was doing well in his messaging, but there is no way to respond to these Bain attacks with a counter punch to go after Obama. It was a challenging situation for the Romney campaign. Now, they can turn around and attack Obama’s record and philosophy with every swipe at Ryan’s plan or the House ‘extremism’.
I am getting more and more intrigued by the fact that Romney made this choice...and that the accounts are HE made it despite some reservations by the consultants and his Boston team. He is either a much more wily political animal than I thought, or possibly even more ideological than we imagined on economics. Interesting stuff.
I think the Romney team have done an exceptional job so far and the campaign "ain't your father's McCain campaign."