It appears Romney learned nothing from the 1992 campaign of George H. W. Bush, the 1996 campaign of Bob Dole, the eight excruciating years when George W. Bush wouldn’t fight back against vicious lies, and the 2008 campaign of John McCain. Likely he will realize the same results.
A few observations:
1) Obama is not a nice guy. He is a creature of Alinsky and Chicago politics.
2) Romney is not a nice guy. He proved it in the primaries.
3) Romney may try to play being a nice guy but if he does the press and Obama will define him as an ogre.
4) If Romney really perceives himself as a nice guy, he should remember, “nice guys finish last.”
My hope, such as it is, is that Romney energizes his final campaign against the “Dark [evil, that is] One” with the cut-throat zeal he showed in this primary season and the one before.
You don’t beat liberals, progressives, Democrats and all their selfish overloading victim groups by being nice - in any form factor. You beat them by crushing them with turnout and the seething hatred that exists among any real taxpayers who’ve had to witness his pillaging.
As for these “independents,” I submit they are moral and intellectual cowards who crave attention and pandering - as far as I’m concerned they’ve made up their minds already but won’t tell.