Conservativa

For Romney, it’s time to bring his “A” game. Patrick Ruffini has a good piece here. Huckabee (grrr) will be rapidly losing supporters now. (And despite his making big cow eyes at McCain in the last debate, I don’t think McCain will be asking him to be his VP choice). Romney may be able to pick up a lot of those. And, Romney has the money.

One thing Romney could work on - I read something like this earlier today and now can’t find it - the gist of it was that Obama, Hillary, and McCain each have an interesting life story. Romney, not so much. Very smart guy born into political family gets great education, succeeds much in business, goes into politics, and succeeds there. A fine life. But not a story that people can much relate to. There seem to be no big setbacks, disadvantages overcome, stupid choices that were overcome, etc. There may be such things in Romney’s life, but they have not made their way into the public view. I think this is part of what people sense when they describe him as stiff or plastic.

Romney’s the turnaround specialist in business. He needs to apply everything he knows there to his campaign. He has turned around difficult situations before, so he is not to be counted out yet.