This is both naive and dangerous. He needs to go for the kill and make them scatter. Otherwise they pile on, and will eat him up, pretty much the way they have been for months now.
You know, I’ve been getting pretty impatient with Mitt. But was talking to a guy at work today and we were discussing Mitt’s approach versus the mack-daddy’s and Mitt just needs to be himself, BE THE CEO. The mack-daddy can shuck and jive and play eye candy all day long and lie, too, for that matter. But Mitt is better off going to his core competency of being an executive: laying out the numbers, talking to the vision and values of America, being calm and honest with people. Against that, the mack-daddy would look like he’s pandering, which he is. So Mitt doesn’t need to go on the attack and he doesn’t even need to parry with the mack-daddy. He simply needs to talk about what he will do. And that’s what he’s beginning to do. It’ll work.