What Romney has to do.

I have to admit I've been pretty upset lately, about the state of the current campaign.  After a really mediocre Convention showing conservatives exactly what had been forced down their throats and a truly masterful performance by Bill Clinton at their convention we find ourselves in a situation where not only is the President ahead in the race for 2012, some say he could actually win by the same margin as he did in 2008?!  As if the country hadn't learned anything from the last 4 years.  That no one had changed their mind?! (One exception being Larry Sabato of the University of VA, who has correctly predicted 99% of the Federal elections in this country since 2002.  He said such a thing was unlikely.)

So today I am going to cover what Romney need to do tonight in his debate performance and from here on out to win the election.  To be frank, he's got to come clean, stop pandering like a liberal (or Republican for that matter) and give the American people a flesh and blood plan for what he's going to do when elected.  The REAL plan, with answers to at least some of what he's going to have to cut.  He's got to take a chance that the American people are in fact in desperate shape looking for somebody new to help.  But they want somebody who is going to be honest with them.

Pundits on the Sunday shows this week were all debating what Romney has to do to, "get back in the game."  Their answers were all about how Romney needs to, "Redefine himself," for the millionth time.  The real answer is that he's got to do what he really, REALLY does not want to do.  And that's tell the TRUTH!  Do you think Romney beat around the bush like this when he was at Bain Capital?  Did he tell the companies he was working to turn-around what they wanted to hear?  Or did he tell them the unvarnished truth about their condition?  Why is behaving like a politician from Massachusetts and not the CEO from Bain Capital?  At this point, I think he really has no choice.  He got to be honest about the Pain and the Gain.

That's the only way he's going to get around his really INSULTING 47% comments.  I have to say, Republicans can be really arrogant some times and it shows how really out of touch they are with the American electorate that they simply assumed the entire 47% were Obama supporters.  That NO Republican would ever be on government assistance.  Even though 25% these govermnent outlays consist of Social Security and Medicare recipients.  Older folks who are heavily Republican.  Do they think that NO Republican is out of work?!  Dumb, dumb, DUMB!  It shows why the Republican party will never be a majority party: Their elitist view of the very voters they're supposed to be getting the support of.

The assumption is that because nearly half the American people don't pay Federal Income taxes that means the same number are on government assistance.  However, according to a recent Christian Science Monitor article (October 1, p.12) only 37 percent are on government assistance.  The difference accounted for by those who pay no income tax but are self-sufficient.  On top of which the reason so many Americans don't pay income tax is because of a policy known as the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), an idea created by Republicans to have the poor refunded all their income tax payments instead of receiving government assistance.

Mitt can still get himself elected President of the United States but to do that he'll have to stop being a politician and start telling Americans the good and bad of what it is he plans to do if elected.  And if he can't be honest about that, maybe even I won't want to him to win.