You don’t win a game by playing defense. You have to go on the offense eventually. Romney needs to step up and take it all on. Quit running scared.
I don’t think Romney will take our advice on playing offense. Even George W. Romney ran a more vigorous race in 1967 until he admitted he was the victim of brainwashing.
You can win with defense by sacking the opposing quarterback in the end zone, forcing a fumble, recovering the ball, and knocking said QB out of the game.
To do that you must be talented, smart, aggressive and ferocious.
Romney does not appear to qualify. After a brisk early start, Romney appears timid and tepid - on F&F, and now on ObamaTax.
Bush I never went on offense. In his first run he didn’t need to; he just needed to let people think he was Reagan redux. In his second run I kept waiting for him to bring out the big guns and he even kept his penknife in his pocket. He never went on offense or even tried to defend much. McCain, well he spent more time defending the kenyan than he did asserting any reasons to vote for McCain. Dole thought of himself entirely in the third person and so did the electorate. Ford was just lackadaisical about running. That is what being a Republican IS. The Gop is a gentlemen’s club that dabbles in politics.