He’ll repeal Obamacare, but people want that. He’ll cut government spending but that will reduce the deficit and that’s popular. Obama can accuse him of gutting Medicare, but Romney has explicitly distanced himself from the intial Ryan Plan and embraced only the amended version that lets people keep their current Medicare if they wish.
The price Obama has to pay for his dismal record is that he can’t win merely by painting his opponent as hard hearted and out of touch. His supposed hands-on understanding of the problems of America’s families hasn’t done them much good as unemployment continues and economic growth slows.
Romney, on the other hand, has failed to transform his negative attacks on Obama’s record into personal shortcomings. It is not enough to say that Obama’s programs haven’t worked and that he has not kept his promises. You must then say that he is incompetent and hasn’t a clue about what to do. Romney needs to show that Obama is, indeed, an “amateur” as Bill Clinton allegedly called him, in over his head, with no solutions.
Romney needs to ask what skills Obama brought to the job of saving the economy? He’s a lawyer, after all, and a community organizer after that. The failures of the Obama record need to become evidence of his incompetence for them to have their full effect.
Oddly, even as both campaigns get more vicious, none is going for the jugular. Obama paints Romney as remote, cold, and out of touch, but not as a danger or a threat. Romney says Obama has bad ideas and ill conceived policies but he doesn’t go the next step and call his competence in economics into question.
But Obama has a problem. Romney is really not a threat and Obama really is incompetent.
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