Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Romney Can't Run on Biography Alone

Ed Kilgore, The New Republic
Republicans have been the first to assert, without shame, the parallels between their own "Swift-boating" of John Kerry in 2004 and the Obama campaign's alleged "Swiss-boating" of Mitt Romney over Bain Capital's business practices. But they have been less inclined to explore a deeper parallel that's more about political strategy than ethics: How the Romney campaign, like the Kerry campaign before it, has set itself up for this adversity by placing undue weight on a sunny and largely unchallenged representation of the candidate's...

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