10 Tweets That Explain Romney's Flailing

by Justin Green Sep 17, 2012 1:59 PM EDT

David went on a bit of a Twitter rant this morning, listing a series of reasons Mitt Romney is struggling to connect with voters.

David was responding to a Politico article on Romney's campaign struggles, specifically a part which placed quite a bit of blame on consultant Stuart Stevens.

As you should already be following him on Twitter (@DavidFrum), this might be a repeat venture.

If you aren't, I've embedded the tweets below.

(The Twitter update should allow you to favorite and retweet from this page, which is a neat addition.)

(1) This AM's Politico story about Stuart Stevens being to blame for Romney campaign's troubles utterly misses the point.
— davidfrum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2012

(2) The Romney campaign has a messaging problem because it has a policy problem.
— davidfrum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2012

(3) The policy problem is that the Romney campaign offers nothing but bad news to hardpressed Americans and the broader middle class.
— davidfrum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2012

(4) How do you message: I'm doing away w Medicaid over the next 10 yrs, Medicare after that, to finance a cut in the top rate of tax to 28%?
— davidfrum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2012

(5) I don't care if you hire the people who produce the ATT ads that make my wife cry, there's no lipsticking that pig.
— davidfrum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2012

(6) The problem isn't the campaign leadership; it's the party's followership
— davidfrum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2012

(7) Over course of campaign, Romney has changed from a pragmatic, capable manager into a dog-whistling culture warrior.
— davidfrum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2012

(8) Candidate cd have and shd have resisted that pressure - but it's rich for ppl who demanded the change to complain about consequences.
— davidfrum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2012

(9) I thought Stevens' - drafted Tampa speech did good job of humanizing the man, Mitt Romney
— davidfrum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2012

(10) But voters do care about the q: what will this presidency do for me? And "dick you over" is not a winning answer
— davidfrum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2012

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David Frum

David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.