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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn1ya_qTGZY

I was thinking more along the lines of why his Republican competitors haven’t done that to him. It’s not time for the Democrats to be going after the Republicans yet. I just thought that someone in the Republican party would pull that old canard on Romney. He is a world class flip-flopper.

Romney Tries To Convince America That He’s Running For Governor.

Excerpts from debate transcript obtained here.

Anderson asked the candidates if the country was better off now than it was 8 years ago.

Romney responded this way:

FORMER GOV. MITT ROMNEY: Well, if you’re voting for George Bush, you’d be very interested in knowing the answer to that. If you’re voting for Mitt Romney, you’d like to know, “Are you better off in Massachusetts after four years of my term in office?” And the answer would be decidedly yes.

He then started listing some of the things he had done as governor.

After a minute or so, Anderson had to remind him what the question was, and the exchange went like this:

COOPER: Let me just interrupt. The question was: Are Americans better off than they were eight years ago? And as you know, there are a lot of Americans out right now who are very interested in the answer. They’re not feeling particularly good about their home sales — the value of their homes dropping down or the unemployment rate rising.

ROMNEY: But I’m not running on President Bush’s record. President Bush can talk about his record. Washington is badly broken.

Mitt then went on about some of the problems he considered.

Classic, I tell you.

AF

You’re hilarious. Do go on….

As for the Rasmussen polls, no one his hitting McCain where he is weakest, because the only people who would do so now are Republicans and these issues generally hurt their entire ticket. Polls also indicate that opposition to the war remains overwhelming. (Y’all read the same progressive screeds that I do, so I’m hoping nobody is going to require that I actually look that data up.) Once the Democratic ticket shakes out to a definite winner (and I’m still hoping for a floor fight at the Convention), the intrinsic weaknesses of the Republican Plan are going to be pointed out with rather more enthusiasm than what the other Republicans have managed. Plus, there’s the little problem that our economy is going to implode this year, and whoever’s party owns the office gets the blame.

This doesn’t mean that we should go to sleep now; but it might suggest that it is early in the game to be losing sleep.