Friday, May 4, 2012

Romney isn't aggressive enough

The latest exchange is about the jobs report, which came in somewhat weak.  The impression to me is that Romney is conceding too much to Obama.  He's letting Obama get away with using the relatively short crisis period in the recession as an excuse for his poor performance in getting the economy going.

I've outlined in prior posts that Obama's efforts have been insufficient, and he has exaggerated his claims about what he inherited and what he has accomplished.  Reagan inherited a bad economy and turned it around in less than 4 years.  Obama has had enough time.  He's trying to use the short crisis of less than a year as an excuse for a longer period failure of the last three years.  Romney hasn't emphasized that enough.  He needs to be more aggressive about Obama's excuse-making about his lackluster results.

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