Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s visit to
Newport News on Monday marked his fourth event in Virginia in less than a week.
On Thursday, Romney and his vice presidential nominee, Paul
Ryan, held an event in Fisherville. Romney held another rally in Abingdon on
Friday while Romney spoke at the
Virginia Military Institute and Newport News on Monday.
Thus, it hasn’t been difficult to notice the importance that
Team Romney is putting on winning Virginia in the November elections, a state
that President Obama won in 2008[1].
More specifically, Romney is targeting central and southern Virginians
to rally behind him. Northern Virginia is, for the most part, a solidly
Democratic voting bloc that Mitt Romney can ill afford to throw away time on.
While Romney has been “hot” on the campaign trail in
Virginia, Mitt has repeatedly failed to spell out the specifics of the policy
positions he would take were he to become America’s next president, God forbid.
The Romney campaign has been amazingly devoid of policy
specifics on a number of important issues to Americans, such as how his
administration would go about paying for a $5 trillion cut in America’s taxes.[2]
This is the kind of policy hole that should not face any
serious presidential contender. Yet, Mitt Romney and his campaign appear almost
indifferent to laying out the details to their policy positions for the
American people to see.
In our hyper-partisan environment, it’s easy to understand
Team Romney’s strategy: move America’s attention away from the policy specifics
and towards President Obama’s supposed failures as president. More than a few
Americans are more than willing to follow along.
So while Romney continues to dodge policy specifics,
President Obama’s own economic policies in particular have driven our country’s
unemployment levels below 8%[3],
an impressive feat given the state of our economy at the beginning of President
Obama’s first term.
No comments:
Post a Comment