CHESAPEAKE, Va. — After facing weeks of pressure from press and the Obama campaign to add more specific about his policy proposals, Mitt Romney is spending the day after the second presidential debate trying to turn the argument back on the incumbent.
At an afternoon rally here that featured country artist Lee Greenwood and conservative comedian Dennis Miller, Romney laid into the president for failing to offer his own detailed vision for the next four years.
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“I think it’s it’s interesting that president still doesn’t have an agenda for a second term,” Romney said. “Don’t you think it’s time for him to finally put together a vision of what he’d do for the next four years if he were elected?”
He then joked, “I mean, he’s gotta come up with that over this weekend because there’s only one debate left on Monday!”
Romney’s call for specifics was consistent with the barrage of press releases blasted out by his campaign and the Republican National Committee over the past 18 hours demanding that Obama outline his second-term agenda.
Romney’s team is hoping the message will shift some of the burden of specificity off him and onto his opponent. They also believe the Obama campaign’s relentless attempts to make the campaign about the Republican nominee — a “kil Mitt” strategy that’s miles from the “hope and change” of 2008 — have given them an opening to exploit.
