It’s very interesting to see Marc Thiessen map out Mitt Romney’s strategy for taking down Texas Governor Rick Perry, but the result is a holistically incoherent message. If Romney attacks Perry from the left for opposing Social Security and Medicare, and from the right for being a lifelong creature of government, and then tries to defend his own record on health care by saying it’s a state-devised non-federal solution, while blasting Perry for being too radical about state-devised non-federal solutions, the average voter is going to have whiplash.
I don’t think the country’s most famous flip-flopper can succeed with a totally incoherent message. I know his opponents are pathetic, but how can this work for Romney?
