Romney's V.P. Choice Announced Tomorrow

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Former Governor Mitt Romney will announce his choice for Vice President of the United States of America at 8:45am before heading off on a four day bus tour through battle ground states. After months of speculating voters will see who will share a potential ticket to the White House. The New York Times article points out how coincidental it is that the Romney will announce his decision on the U.S.S. Wisconsin, the same state that Paul Ryan represents. The New York Times stopped short of saying that Ryan will be the V.P. pick, but it is implied because the article juxtaposes the state where the announcement will be made and the Congress person representing Wisconsin. If Romney is playing a chess game, then he is distracting his opponents by drawing attention elsewhere  and checkmating voters with a radically different choice.

Romney's Looking Glass

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Rick Santorum's win in Louisiana reiterates concerns that people are not ready to coalesce around Mitt Romney, even though, Romney won 27% of the vote in Louisiana compared with the 49% that Santorum won. In fact, several of Romney's opponents have pointed out details about him that would compel voters to vote against him in the general election. For example, when he was still trying to get the G.O.P. nomination Rick Perry accused Mitt Romney of "vulture capitalism;" Around the same time Newt Gingrich criticized Romney's Cayman Island accounts; and recently Eric Fehrnstrom, Romney's own political advisor, said that the former Governor of Massachusetts' campaign will be like an Etch a Sketch when it transitions to the general election. Nate Silver, the blogger who makes projections based on polls, makes an interesting point that as voters get to know Romney they like him less, therefore, Silver's comment implies there is still "an anyone, but Romney" candidate people want.

Closet Keynesian

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Recently on a post, Frank Schaeffer cited the renown Economist Paul Krugman as a critic of Obama. I don't recall reading Krugman criticising Obama in any op-ed as of late and am not sure how to take the journalist's writing because he is on President Obama's side, yet he's incorrectly juxtaposing Krugman with Mitt Romney, a candidate for the G.O.P. Nomination, as critics of the President. In fact, Schaeffer acknowledges Krugman's work, yet he claims that, 

Both [Krugman and Romney] have often loudly predicted that he [Obama] made the economy worse and was putting America on the wrong economic path. Both are being proved wrong by the economic comeback we are in.