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Romney Should Choose Bold Colors, Not Pale Pastels

OldTimer Wrote: Apr 24, 2012 7:21 AM
Whatever the case, it seems that the 'media' AND apparently the Democrat party have decided that the race will be between Romeny and Obama. I say this with a certain degree of confidence because 'Democrats' have been trying to convince me that I should be angrier at the way Romney has spends his money than at the way 'Democrats' and Mr. Obama have been spending MINE
Mitt Romney's presidential run could turn out to be a test case to resolve the long-running debate inside the Republican Party as to whether the GOP presidential nominee should run as a conservative or more of a centrist.

How often have we heard both Democratic and Republican political "experts" reciting the conventional wisdom that during primary contests, candidates of both parties must play to their respective base voters and then shift toward the center during the general election campaign? Does anyone even challenge this edict?

The first problem with this is that it implicitly suggests that all presidential candidates are first and foremost...

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