Experience?

Romney has raised the issue of experience in the campaign for President. He claims his business experience will enable him to better manage the economy than President Obama. However, this claim seems to lack any foundation in truth. While it is true that Romney came from the “business world” rather than the “political world”, so did George W. Bush and we can see what that business experience did to the economy when "business President Bush was in charge. We can also see how Commander-in Chief "business President" Bush lead the country during his two wars and his attempts to kill or capture bin Laden. More important, however, is the reality that for the past three years, OBAMA WAS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES and while he may have learned on the job, he WAS on the job while Romney was running around the country trying to get the nomination of the Republican Party. Three years on the job trumps three years on the campaign trail. Then there are the campaign gaffs attributed to Romney: In February, for instance, Romney was trying to explain his efforts to focus on middle-class voters when he said: "I'm not concerned about the very poor." Later that month, Romney said in Michigan, a state with nearly 9 percent unemployment, that his wife "drives a couple of Cadillacs." A few days later, attending the Daytona 500 in Florida, he said, "I have some great friends who are NASCAR team owners." The most recent gaffe came from a staffer: Senior adviser Eric Fehrnstrom suggested that Romney could reset his strategy after nailing down the GOP nomination, likening the transition to erasing the image on an Etch A Sketch. Add to those errors the campaign losses in key, must-win states to Gingrich and Santorum one has to question Romney’s strategic abilities or the abilities to put together a competent staff. Also, there is the problems Romney has created for himself with various groups like Latinos and women that by them selves can cost him the election. Finally, the lack of enthusiasm of endorsers like McConnell, Boehner, and Representative Louie Gohmert, who said, “But let me just tell ya, if you are not sure about wanting to support Mitt Romney, whether you are liberal, whether you are very conservative, you ought to be excited because he’s been on your side at one time or another”. Perhaps that comment, in it self, defines the 2012 Presidential campaign theme of Mitt Romney.