He knows a winner
Posted: Monday, January 07, 2008 6:21 PM by Domenico Montanaro
From NBC's Ron Allen
Mitt Romney knows a winner when he sees one. The victor he's noticed is Barack Obama!
Romney came into New Hampshire riding a message of "Change." Sound familiar? To be fair, Romney says he's been talking about change and innovation since first announcing his run for the White House from the Ford Museum in Michigan, a backdrop selected he says because it symbolized "change." I'll have to look back and see if that's what was said then.
With the Massachusetts Governor, as his rivals have pointed out, things do "change.". Sorry for that, I couldn't resist.
There's another indication that Romney sees Obama as a winner. Romney's now talking about how he's the best Republican hopeful to beat Obama. Barack, Romney warns, will do to a long-serving senator, like John McCain, Romney's chief rival here, exactly what he's done to a field of Democratic senators.
Remember Biden, Dodd? See what's happening to Clinton? That's Romney's latest pitch. That it takes a governor to beat a senator. But not a Governor from Arkansas like say Mike Huckabee, his other nemisis, he says, it'll take a governor from Massachusetts, him!
I can't help thinking back to one of those debates way back in 2007, when Hillary Clinton's name was mentioned as a punch line by the Republicans even more than Ronald Reagan's. Romney still has a stock line about how no one wants "Hillary-care" style health care. But now with Romney, it's all about besting Obama, how as a governor and corporate turnaround artist, Romney claims he's the true candidate of "change."
Whether it works for him or not, Romney does know a winner when he sees one.