I posted this on another thread, but since this thread is getting all the action, and it is apropos, I'll post it her as well:
If I was running Romney's campaign I'd go even further than just calling OPapaDoc a liar. I'd hammer away at the insecurity people are feeling. I'd talk about how we all know the country is on the wrong track, that we are being told things are fine when they are not. That our gluttonous politicians are devouring our very way of life and are now taking over like parasites on the body of a man eking out the last breaths of life. The country is now in a situation where we are being told that up is not up and down is not down. Our free markets are no longer free. Our airports are now gulags guarded by federal thugs. Our suburban neighborhoods are gang-ridden, drug infested hell-holes unsafe for anyone. Our schools are nothing more than baby-sitting centers that feed feel good liberal indoctrination to the young. In short, we are living in a society that is tightly controlled by a group of elite, corrupt politicians who pander to the masses but never really deliver anything but symbols, rhetoric and more power for themselves.
What the American people do not know is that they have it in their power to make it all go away with a single vote.
Barack Obama did not cause all this. But he has made the situation much worse than it was. And he has done it because he is a cheap, corrupt politician from Chicago whose world view holds that America should bring itself down to the level of the rest of the world.
Having laid this foundation, Romney should then present a plan for real, systematic, comprehensive reform of government based on our founding principles. Romney should admit that he has been too trusting of government in the past, but that if given this one opportunity, he will make it his life's achievement to go about the task of draining the swamp and rebuilding our federal institutions to serve people rather than bully them. Making this come about will be difficult, but first we have to get rid of the king of the bullies who seeks to divide America rather than unite it.
Is Romney capable of this grand a vision? I keep hoping. But so far all I have seen is more of the same old same old.