And now... The all new and improved Mitt romney!

So, Mitt Romney has caught back up to the President in the latest polls and the election is once again a contest that either man has a chance of winning.

For the moment, all the momentum is on the side of the challenger. This is indisputable. After he turned in a strong debate performance last week and the President's performance was poor, the President is now fighting hard to stay in the White House.

But this isn't the game changer everyone is making it out to be. Romney, for all his strengths on the debating stage, still has a credibility problem as well as an incapacity for honesty insofar as which position he takes on a plethora of issues.

On any given day, his position on hot button issues can change from favoring them to being in opposition. This week he loves teachers and wants more. Pretty soon he'll be lambasting government payrolls and stating we need to stop spending on social programs if we're ever going to balance the budget (which will translate into education).

He used to think there was too much government but now he says we need more regs (see my post below).

This guy is the king of flip flops and if you are planning on supporting him you need to take a hard look at his record. Moreover, doesn't it bother you that other Presidential candidates freely release tax returns, but Romney won't follow tradition? Personally, I really couldn't care less about how much he makes, but all the candidates release tax returns far further back than two years. Why not Mitt?

If you're a Romney supporter, please post your reasons why. I've freed up the comments so they won't require my review before you post. I only ask that you refrain from posting profanity. Flames and troll posts will be promptly deleted.



 

Mitt Romney the chameleon

So... Now Mitt Romney is a man of the people, was wrong about the 47% comment, and doesn't believe the new unemployment report out from the BLS.

And to top it all off, he was a bipartisan governor in Massachusetts, forging coalitions with the Democrats and making health insurance a reality for all the citizens of the Commonwealth.

Hmmm... That's a far cry from when he said he was a severe conservative, vetoed the majority of the legislation sent to him by the Massachusetts General Court, and never saw a regulation he didn't want to get rid of.

Make no mistake about it, President Obama lost the debate last Wednesday night. He lost it handily by not calling out the former Governor on a lot of the things he's been saying on the campaign trail. And strategy aside, nobody can say that this was a part of the President's plan. He even admitted he's not happy with his debate performance and David Axelrod has vowed that this won't happen again.

However, in winning the debate, the former Governor may have dug himself a deep hole. The next day, the Obama campaign began releasing new ads that quoted Romney on the campaign trail, and then contrasted those moments against what he said in the debate.

Thus, a well organized campaign has made a pretty good salvage effort out of what should have been the game changer for Governor Romney.

The latest polls show the President with narrow but consistent leads in most of the so called battleground states. So the debate did give Romney some momentum, but not what he needed to turn the race around.

Adding to the President's overall chances are the new unemployment numbers out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics which show unemployment has dropped below 8% for the first time since the President inherited the disaster left behind by his predecessor. This is important because it takes away a talking point from the Romney campaign.

So now, Governor Romney will have to change his campaign message yet again. I would be happy if someone would just tell me flat out who he is and what he stands for.