The Romney campaign continues looking schizophrenic. We should be used to it. Throughout the year, they have oscillated between running a bold “change” campaign (highlighted by the selection of Paul Ryan as running mate) and running a sort of “rope-a-dope” strategy to run out the clock and squeak out a victory.
It seems the latter strategy is back.
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This is problematic. As Joe Scarborough warned Monday morning, “The Romney people think they can run a Bob Dole campaign, a John McCain campaign, a Gerald Ford campaign [but] Republicans do not win by running these types of campaigns.”
The uproar, of course, it due to Romney’s appearance on Meet the Press this past Sunday. When pressed for specifics of his tax reform plan, Romney wouldn’t budge an inch.There is a good reason and a real reason for his vagueness.
The good reason is that it would be presumptuous to lay out a detailed plan — because any tax reform would require buy-in from Congress. But the real reason is that Romney seems to believe he can get away with being vague. And they must assume the penalty of vagueness is less than the penalty of openness regarding which loopholes they would eliminate — that giving the media too many details only allows them to poke and prod and be persnickety.
In short, Romney is keeping his tax plan a secret for many of the same calculating reasons he is keeping his personal taxes a secret.
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