Other than everything?
It’s a theme I’ve been harping on since the beginning of time, or at least the beginning of this campaign season. Not being someone else is not a reason to vote for you.
Oh, we’ll vote for you if the only someone else is Obama, but we will not be enough.
Via Ryan Lizza h/t Dan McLaughlin:
This sort of stuff doesn’t help, either, cause we ain’t stuped:
“Four years ago we won all three of three of those states [Michigan, Utah and Massachusetts]. Is any one of them a must-win for Mitt Romney? No,” [Romney senior advisor Eric] Fehrnstrom said.“I think the must-do for any candidate running for president is achieving the 1,145 delegates. That’s what’s going to secure the nomination, and it’s a long process and as of right now we have a nearly three to one lead over our closest rival in terms of delegates,” he added.
It feeds a narrative shared by conservatives and liberals alike that there is no there there, which will be devastating in the general election:
In short, hiding behind that Mitt Romney mask is (yikes) another Mitt Romney mask.
Change course, right the ship, do something other than what you have been doing.
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