re: #14 Targetpractice

I heard, and still agree, that Romney might have had more success if he’d gone the Reagan route of portraying Obama as a good man who was just overwhelmed by what it took to be president. Running against a caricature was not a winning strategy.

But he couldn’t do that in the primary, and if he tried that in the general the two-faced lying would have been even more jarring.

The base is poison in a way it was not in 1980. There’s no quick fix for that.