“Instead of a referendum on his own performance,” political strategists
point out, “the president has an opening to turn the election into a referendum
on the vision that Mr. Ryan has advanced and Mitt Romney has adopted.”
What was the usually cautious contender thinking?
“Romney, the turnaround artist, decided that he needed to turn around his
own campaign,” suggests New York Times resident wonk Nate Silver, adding that
the President “will no longer have to stretch to evoke the specter of Congress
and its 15 percent approval rating...he will be running against a
flesh-and-blood embodiment of it.”
Under a Ryan budget, another critic snipes, underscoring the tax release controversy,
Romney would have owed only 0.82 percent of his $21 million income in 2010
rather than the 13.9 he paid.
This VP choice may excite the foot-dragging Tea Party base Romney has
been courting, but what will be the ultimate price among independent and
undecided voters?
Like John McCain’s “Game Change” choice in 2008, this year’s may also
have surprisingly unintended consequences.
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