Benjy Sarlin puts on the green eyeshades and examines claims that Democrats are winning the outside money game.
TPM Reader MS responds to my note last night about the Journal’s scorching Romney OpEd …
On some level I suspect the WSJ’s critique is accurate. Forget the stuff about the tax and the mandate, that’s just journalistic aggrandizement of subject, making the peg worth the ink/pixels needed to write about it.
But there’s something to it. I think liberals have developed a split opinion about Romney’s skills as well. On the one hand, he’s ridiculous and contemptible and all that, but somehow I think liberals suspect that there’s a ‘real’ Romney buried in there who’s a damn good pol and knows his material and can present very well. So there’s an ’emperor’s new clothes’ problem all around. I think the emperor actually has no clothes — Romney is not that good a campaigner, and we’ll see the evidence of that in abundance over the next few months.
Even though his campaign website promises that Mitt Romney “will nominate judges in the mold of Chief Justice Roberts,” Romney says he wouldn’t have nominated Roberts knowing what he knows now.