Will Obama Take Advantage of Romney’s Big Convention Mistake?
Romney provided no details on how he’d do any of this. And senior Democratic and Obama campaign officials believe that Romney’s vagueness has afforded President Barack Obama a significant opening to exploit at the Democratic convention in Charlotte.
“We’ve been talking about this all week,” Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said on Tuesday, hours before the convention opened. “For months, the Romney campaign said his speech would be when they would introduce Romney and his plans, but there were no specifics… They didn’t fill in the holes.”A Democratic strategist advising the campaign, who is not authorized to speak publicly for it, noted, “As soon as Romney was done, we saw the chance to do something Romney failed to do: to spell out what Obama would do if elected.”
The Obama crew’s response to Romney’s surface-skimming speech was not a partisan reflex. Days afterward, Bill Kristol, the neoconservative commentator who loves to be cranky about Romney, slapped the Republican presidential nominee for not describing what he’d do in the Oval Office: