I agree with your statement completely. Romney should have pounded Obama on the things he has said and done, or lack thereof. Since Obama has such a big ego, I would have started there - go after his shortcomings and make him feel insignificant. We saw that in the first debate and Romney made Obama look like an idiot (which is not hard to do cause the guy is an idiot). If he had kept that momentum going, he probably would have won. McCain made the exact same mistake.
We saw what he could do to opponents when he trashed all the competition in the primaries. Someone reined him in hard after the 1st debate. That does not shock me.
What DOES shock me is that so many people either ignored that very important occurrence or made excuses for it. Time has brought me more understanding of the people who voted Romney out of fear. But today with 20 20 hindsight, there is no excuse for people to continue defending him.
Because that sends ANOTHER crystal Clear signal to the GOP that no matter what they do to us, we will STILL kiss their Arses and give them undying cover and support.
The press would have looked like fools trying to defend all his failures. They would have had no defend. They only only thing they could have done was to avoid the subjects. This is why I believe that Romney serves the same elite as Obama.