Will Obama win by default?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

Could it be that President Barack Obama's best chance for re-election in November is ... Mitt Romney?
The dismal state of the economy, and especially the stagnant high unemployment rate, clearly are red flags for Mr. Obama's hopes of retaining the White House. And the similar crisis in Europe is no help either. So it may be that the American public's continuing doubts about Mr. Romney will in the end give the president another four-year lease.

That possibility helps explain why the Obama campaign and its super PAC allies have been hammering so hard on Mr. Romney's claim to be a Mr. Fix-It of the business world. They are focusing particularly on his past stewardship of Bain Capital, dubbing it the roost of vulture capitalism.

The Obama strategists could only have been incredulous that their counterparts had sent the foreign-policy deficient Mr. Romney abroad on a late July detour to Britain, Israel and Poland. All the Romney campaign got out of the venture were more gaffes that were seized upon by the news media, justifiably nor not, to feed the narrative that their candidate requires a short leash.

An old adage in politics, as in sports, is that you can't beat somebody with nobody. Mr. Romney, a wildly successful business and investment entrepreneur, certainly can't be dismissed as a nobody. But apparently he has yet to pass either the credibility or the likeability test with many voters. And that includes the most conservative members of his own party and of the tea party movement that has become a major stockholder in it.

Obama strategists have turned to Mr. Romney as their prime whipping boy after nearly four years of trying to resurrect former President George W. Bush as their Darth Vader. Mr. Obama never tires of reminding voters who left behind the economic mess in 2008, not to mention two unfinished wars, for him to clean up.

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-witcover-obama-20120803,0,2151262.story

[kimbutgar]

1. Why doesn't rmoney talk about his time as governor of Massachusetts?

The fact he is quiet about it is because he was an utter failure as Governor. That will be another theme as we close to the election. The guy is so weak as a candidate he didn't vet himself.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Yes, indeed!

his track record as governor isn't too good

[bemildred]

3. Actually he can be dismissed as a nobody. nt

[canEHdian]

4. Mr Obama Deserves To Win, Period!

He's the best President you've had since Lyndon Johnson.

[Major Hogwash]

5. ". . . trying to resurrect former President George W. Bush as their Darth Vader."

Ummm, that would be Cheney.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. more likely