Confronted with a poll showing far more voters trust Mitt Romney on economic issues than those who trust President Obama, Obama’s campaign spokesman explained they plan to fix that by attacking Romney.
“No significant education has been done about Governor Romney’s economic record yet,” campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said Friday when asked how Obama plans to overcome Romney’s 40-36 lead among voters on economic issues. “And when people find out that he made a series of promises in Massachusetts that he didn’t fulfill . . . he didn’t fulfill them in Massachusetts.”
LaBolt may have a case to make on Romney’s record — although Romney will likely counter, as he did in the primary that Democrats who now support Obama blocked his agenda — but what is striking is the absence of any defense of the president.
Watch the video. LaBolt makes no effort to defend Obama’s economic record, at all. To convince voters to trust Obama on the economy rather Romney, the Obama plans to weaken their confidence in Romney, not strengthen it in Obama.
Will that work? “Obama owns the economic angst,” Examiner Columnist Lawrence Kudlow argues on the home page. His big-government policies have not solved it. All his finger pointing and blame-game, enemies-list excuses are not working. That’s really what the polls are telling us. And unless something very big and very positive happens to the economy in the next few months, Obama is in a heap of trouble.”
