Mitt Romney and Health Care

Just a random thought, but if Obama is able to pass some kind of health care reform, Romney probably won't be able to use this as an issue in 2012. This is because any kind of reform is likely to be very similar to the reform passed in Massachusetts when Romney was governor. Kind of makes it hard to use as a campaign issue when you passed the same thing.

The name of Mitt Romney's upcoming book is going to be "No Apology." It looks like he is going to come after from a foreign policy perspective. This probably would not work. It's difficult for a Governor with no foreign policy experience to beat a sitting president on foreign policy (and lets not forget that I think that Obama is doing a good job on foreign policy).

I'm not sure what issues Romney can highlight in order to beat Obama in 2012. He could try and play up the deficit but I don't know if you can win a presidential election based on deficit reduction. Romney's ability to beat Obama is going to come down to the strength of the economy, something that is going to be completely out of his hands.