re: #206 Dark_Falcon

Then he’ll lose. “Looking presidential” only works for the frontrunner, which is not him right now. If he wants to win, he’s going to have to show he can hold fast during a pounding and then pound back. That may lead him to a victory or it may lead him to a severe defeat, but he’ll at least have a chance to win.

The sentence in italics is derived from the Duke of Wellington’s remark about Waterloo: “Hard pounding this, gentlemen. Let’s see who can pound the longest.” Wellington knew that risks must sometimes be taken, and if he wants to win this election Mitt Romney must function on that assumption.

Thing is, nothing I’ve seen shows Romney is a risk taker. Quite the opposite, he seems to be risk adverse. That has a large part to do with the reality that the base is only tentatively on his side and very likely will abandon him if he does not conform to their crazy ideology all the way to Election Day. So I don’t expect him to do more than continue to offer vague promises while trying to lob as much shit as he can Obama’s way in the hopes that something will stick.