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If Romney will grow some balls, get belligerent, and attack the President’s failed policies, his political stances, and questionable background he might have a chance. Way too many weak spots to attack to just be a nice guy and lose like McCain did.

It's more than getting belligerent. Geeze, with so much on the line there just seems to be no passion. The GOP ticket should be indignant about the mess Obama's made. Instead we get flowery "well, he's a nice guy and all, just not quite up to the job". I mean, I get people WANT to like Obama so we need to be careful about how we go at him personally, but come on, for goodness sakes I gotta think we could be about 100 times tougher than the crappy lightweight ads I'm seeing from R/R. Where's the fire? Where's the excitement? Where is the ridicule for Obama and policies?

The worst thing about this is, if nothing changes and R/R remain behind, the fundraising will dry up. We're in the final months of the campaign and the big money goes to the perceived winner. All that Wall Street money Romney was getting is going to change directions and go right back to Obama if they think he is going to win again. That's how it works. This isn't 20 years ago where the Republicans had more small donors than the Democrats and the left relied on soft money. Obama has LOTS of small donors. He is still adored by many. So we can't even beat them on that front if the big money backs away from R/R.

It's great that all of us armchair political strategists can weigh in FReely here, but it means squat. I actually trust Romney to run his campaign, as he successfully has run businesses, the Olympics, a liberal state, and his family.

Yeah we all want red meat and think Newt or Santorum would be up 60-40 but it's bull. Newt would be toast in a national referendum, as his favorabilities has always been in the toilet. There's a reason Romney has taken the approach he has. First off he has hit hard at times, you just don't want to acknowledge it. And when he seems to play nice, keep in mind he is trying to win over brainwashed people who think Obama is cool and hip. Screaming at them that Obama is a communist turd, while true, does not work with them.

This is big-boy real world stuff, not keyboard ranting. Romney is killing Obama amongst independents. He is already winning back numerous states that turned blue in 2008 - NC, VA, IN, OH, FL.