Okay, what was Romney’s solution to the crisis that lead to a $700 Billion spending spree by Congress?
Romney has enough financial savvy to have worked to create solution involving the suspension of mark-to-market rules and direct liquidity injections into the banks that would have avoided the high price tag of Paulson’s solution.
I think the author makes a very strong case for Romney. I admire John McCain but his debate skills were not an asset in this campaign. It was like water torture watching the debates and seeing Obama leave himself wide-open for a knockout blow only to have McCain throw a weak left jab rather than a hay maker.
In retrospect, I think both Romney or Huckabee could have done better against Obama. His programs are a weak mush concoction that were begging for an evisceration by a skilled interlocutor. Huckabee’s speech as the Republican convention was a sample of this. He demolished Obama’s new age mush with the precision of a surgeon.
I fear that the right’s obsession with finding the next Reagan may have led us to miss out on two pretty good candidates, Romney and Huckabee.