Well, when Reago knew ahead of time his age was going to be used as an issue, he came up with the famous line of not using his opponents youth against him....Romney has the staff and opportunity in the next debate to do the same very publicly. Wonder what the’ll come up with?
Romney might evoke Obama’s own words:
“I do think that, as I said last night, we have to get to the point where we can have a conversation about big, important issues that matter to the American people without vitriol, without name-calling, without the assumption of the worst in other people’s motives.”
Hmm ...
http://dailycaller.com/2012/10/08/obamas-staffers-changed-election-strategy-during-denver-debate/
Obama’s staffers changed election strategy during Denver debate
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“On the conference call convened by aides in Denver and Chicago even as the candidates were still on stage … they reversed a longstanding strategic decision,” without the president’s involvement, according to the Oct. 8 article.
“At the start of the campaign they had decided to attack Mr. Romney as a committed conservative rather than a flip-flopper, but now they decided to use his debate statements to argue that he was reinventing himself,” the article said.
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However, the Politico account says the new anti-Romney strategy was developed by Obama and his aides the day after the debate.
“He huddled with his inner circle — David Axelrod, David Plouffe, Valerie Jarrett, Anita Dunn, Ron Klain and Jim Messina — and settled on the theme they hammered all of Thursday [Oct. 4] — a direct attack on Romney that accused him of out-and-out lying on his tax-cut claims and portrayed the former Massachusetts governor as a two-faced imposter willing to say anything to win.”