The problem with Obama's anti-Romney campaigning

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

The problem with Obama's anti-Romney campaigning is that Romney has yet to manage a successful counterattack.  Romney has been busy retreating from Bain Capital, which isn't going to work very well. For years he kept being the official head of Bain Capital while he was off saving the Salt Lake City Olympics.  That suggests he either wasn't all that essential to Bain even before he headed off to Salt Lake City, or that he got the sort of sweetheart deal not available to ordinary joes.  How many people get to take even three months off from their job without losing it, let alone three years?

There is of course one other approach Romney could have taken, go on the offensive.  Go ahead and admit that he did retain some influence at Bain during his Salt Lake sabbatical.  Go ahead and defend the benefits of free-trade capitalism which will lead to some jobs being outsourced in exchange for growth elsewhere in the economy which will create new jobs.  However, Mitt has chosen not to do that.  He shies away from a defensible reality in which his economic proposals lead to overall improvement in which some people will take a hit, but in which even more will benefit in favor of utopian fantasy in which no-one suffers any pain but in which we'll all do better if we just elect Mitt.

The country is not in the mood to heed utopian fantasies.  It is willing to replace Obama for someone better, but not simply for someone else in the hopes they'll be better.  As bad as things are economically, people are not yet at the stage of blinding trying something different. The voters need to be convinced that the alternative will actually be better instead of simply different and so far Romney is not convincing enough of them that he is better than Obama.