Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s advice to Mitt Romney: Get off your heels
Dan Balz, Washington Post, 7/15/2012
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who survived a tough recall election last month and has become a hero to many of his fellow Republicans, has some advice for Mitt Romney: Get on offense and stay on offense. “Never fight a battle on your heels,” he says.
As Walker offered this advice Friday, Romney was trying to get off his heels. In a round of television interviews, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee lashed back at President Obama’s campaign for suggesting he may have committed a felony by not being entirely truthful about when he relinquished control at Bain Capital.
Romney’s finances and tenure at Bain dominated the campaign week, despite the fact that it came immediately after the third tepid jobs report in three months that should have put the president on the defensive. Instead, the Obama team kept the pressure on Romney, taunting him to release more years of tax returns and hectoring him over the private equity company he founded. The week ended with the president and Romney hurling questions and accusations at one another.
Republicans are nervous about what some see as the Romney campaign’s relative passivity in the face of the onslaught by the Obama team. The president’s forces have spent almost $25 million on ads this spring and summer, attacking Romney over his role at Bain and the outsourcing that was done by some of the companies in which Bain had invested. Overall, they have vastly outspent Romney on television.
full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/wisconsin-gov-scott-walkers-advice-to-mitt-romney-get-off-your-heels/2012/07/14/gJQA8pfGkW_singlePage.html
Similarly, on June 6, Michael Savage called on Mitt Romney to adopt Scott Walker's strategy (3:45).
At 7:45 Savage called Scott Walker a moderate Republican. (Of course June 6 being D-Day Savage just HAD to echo Fox News' overreaction to Obama not doing a formal D-Day speech.)
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