Exactly, I think they are helping Romney by portraying him as a hard ass.
The current occupant of the White House is the one who sat in the corner high as a kite, watching the assault by “Whitey on Whitey” so he could write about it in his autobiography.
Which one do you want meeting with Putin after the election, the “flexible” pot head, or the kick ass kid?
A hard ass, the "kick ass kid" is the conservative teen that witnessing something like this, would have intervened and kicked the bully's tail and would have been willing to face down his little posse.