Bingo! Dana gets it!
Just say what you stand for, Mitt
By Dana Milbank, Published: September 21
SARASOTA, Fla.
The best political minds at Romney headquarters have come up with an antidote to the candidate’s floundering presidential bid: “More Mitt” — putting more of him in front of more voters more often.
This is supposed to be a good thing? After watching the candidate on Florida’s Gulf Coast, I’m not convinced.
It’s true that Romney hasn’t exactly been burning up the campaign trail of late. At Romney’s event in Sarasota on Thursday, his lone public event of the day, one reporter in the traveling entourage joked that Romney isn’t running for president — he’s walking.
But voters don’t need More Mitt. They need Core Mitt: a sense of what exactly he proposes to do as president. At this late stage, just six weeks before the election, even his most ardent supporters don’t know.
Some 2,000 Floridians got a heaping portion of Mitt on Thursday afternoon — I saw two dozen of them carted off by medics after they passed out in the 90-degree heat — as they listened to him rail for nearly 20 minutes about the ills of all things Obama. Yet he failed to give these hard-bitten Republicans here in Katherine Harris country what they craved most: a reason to be for him. He offered nary a specific about what he would do as president.
In the Sarasota crowd, I spoke with Billy Murphy, a retiree holding a poster board with the hand-lettered message: “NO REDISTRIBUTION TO FREELOADERS.” Murphy, an avowed foe of President Obama, will support Romney — but he does not know why. “He hasn’t really told the people yet what he’s gonna do,” Murphy said. “We need to know.” Noting Murphy’s sign, I suggested that he must, at least, agree with Romney’s criticism of the 47 percent of Americans who pay no federal income taxes and expect government handouts. “I don’t know,” Murphy said, suddenly sheepish. “I’m one of the 47 percent. I’m on Social Security.”
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DO SOMETHING!
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