Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Olympics. Show all posts

Monday, July 16, 2012

Romney's Olympic Moment?

Soon we will know if Romney's tax returns are a mere false start, or a full disqualification from the presidential race.  While America is watching this year's dream team shoot, he should be passing ten years of tax returns to the press corp.

The political game plan always calls for a dump of embarrassing data when the public  focus is elsewhere.  If the campaign ignores the unique opportunity afforded by the Olympics, the tax returns, if released, would be a game changer.

Friday, July 13, 2012

Rice Bowl

What do you do when your business background becomes a bane not a boon?  You drudge up the name of a provocative potential VP and leak it to a friendly media source.  Romney desperately wants to change the subject.

However articulate, qualified and demographically desirable  Condoleezza Rice may be, Romney is unlikely to select someone who is pro choice and has ties to the Bush administration.  Romney wants to run out the clock until the public focus shifts to the Olympics, and he can remind voters of his role in the 2002 Salt Lake games.