A Tepid Mitt vs. A Blustery Newt = B.H.O. wins!!
Ok so I mis-judged Mitt Romney's strength in South Carolina and if he doesn't settle in and grow a couple, miscalculation will strike again in Florida.
Mitt went on the attack the other night in Tampa and it was good. He fired a couple of major salvos across the more-than-ample bow of Newt Gingrich and it was very effective.......except for one thing.... Newt didn't take the bait. Gingrich has never been known to hold back and will often erupt, but not this time. Apparently it was time to look "Presidential" and he didn't bite for Romney's avalanche of charges. There's a plus and minus here for Romney.
On the plus side....it's time for the slightly prissey former Governor to man-up, get confident in your own skin and get in there and fight with the big guys. Stop apologizing for being filthy rich and duke it out with 'em. On the minus side, all the crap you're throwing at Newt right now is old crap. This stuff is a dozen years old, vetted years ago by the media and it's time to get on with your original message........."Beat Obama!!"
Unlike Mitt, Newt is very comfortable in his own skin. I'm not terribly comfortable there and a lot of other people are a bit queezy with the former Speakers resume, but he's bright, brusk and knowledgable on the issues and history, and Mitt Romney-the-Tepid has gotta choke up on the bat a bit and get back in the game. He's by far the most "Presidential" of the bunch, he's by far the one with the bucks to pull it off. All he's gotta do is get back to the basics.
B.H.O. cannot win another term on the merits, but he will ride to victory on his "worst President in history" record if the Republicans continue to provide him with all the tools and piles of ammunition in the course of beating each other up.
