Obama Campaign's 'Stupid Moment'

[Conservative]

interesting read...

Jenkins: The Campaign's Stupid Moment - WSJ.com

Reflecting the political profession's contempt for the public it's trying to influence, Team Obama has been shouting through the cognoscenti media that now is the time to "define Romney before he can define himself." Hence its $100 million swing-state advertising barrage. Hence a campaign manager calling Mr. Romney a "felon." Hence Mr. Obama taking to the stump to associate Mr. Romney, in crude Pavlovian fashion, with the word "outsourcing." Paul Krugman is certainly on-board, declaiming that the election is about the rich (see, Romney is rich) versus everybody else.

What is the definition of Obama?

He was against gay marriage before he was for it.

The signature feature of his signature act, the individual mandate of his health-care law, he explicitly opposed and vigorously criticized as a candidate.

When selling his stimulus, he promised to "start a conversation on entitlements" that he didn't start, unless you count his sotto voce suggestion that there is no problem because the rich will pay.

He pronounced a "new energy economy" his most urgent priority. Now he takes credit for a fossil-fuel boom that his policies had nothing to do with.

Mr. Obama certainly has spent the four years of his presidency undefining the creature he so assiduously sold us in 2008—the pure soul above partisanship.

But we are at the stupid moment of the campaign. David Axelrod spelled it out to cognoscenti Doyle McManus of the L.A. Times: "Romney is more vulnerable than Obama because he is less known."

Actually, he means voters are vulnerable. So many are still so disengaged and uninformed that, for at least another moment or two, they may be susceptible to Mr. Axelrod's invented Romney if he can just mount a media onslaught so powerful it will penetrate their indifference.