Memo To The President #2: Greeting Romney at his Bull Pulpit

Okay, here's the next exercise for the debate: Let's keep Mr. Romney's vulnerabilities out in front of us and keep working those into every question, no matter what the question is about.

1. Mr. Romney believes 47% of the nation are a bunch of leeches, dependent on sucking blood out of the government and the rest of the hard working people. Fact is, 90% of the people get some important money from the federal government: Medicare, Social Security, Pell grants. Are they all leeches?
2. Mr. Romney deposited enough money from his annual income in offshore accounts to reduce his income tax to 13%: There's actually two problems here
         a/ Hiding money offshore
         b/ Paying a lower % of his income than Middle America

3. Mr. Romney claims to have been a successful governor, but when he left Massachusetts, his state was lagging behind in all of the important categories: List those.

4. Mr. Romney wants to kill Obama care/Romney care but it's his own program he's running away from. He found he didn't like Romney care when he became captive to the T Party Radical Right, which is to say the current Republican party.

5. Mr. Romney claimed the only thing we needed to do to grow and recover the economy was to get the government off the back of the people, that is, to sweep away "regulations" but in the last debate he suddenly became a born again apostle of "the right kind of regulations." Precisely what are the "wrong regulations" Mr. Romney would sweep away?

6. Mr. Romney likes everything about Obama care which is popular:  Forbidding pre existing conditions and limits on coverage for people whose illnesses exceed a certain expense. He would keep all the good things about Obama care people like but he'd eliminate the stuff he doesn't like. Two questions: What exactly does he not like? Why do we need to elect him to change the things which Obama care does wrong. Why not just keep Obama and correct the flaws in Obama care?

7. Mr. Romney does not like Dodd Frank, because it made some too big to fail banks even bigger. Why not just change the law to correct this problem? Why elect Mr. Romney to do this?

8. Mr. Romney says Medicare is terminally ill and wants to replace it with Coupon care. Or does he? He would not answer Mr. Lehrer's question about whether or not he was in favor of converting Medicare to vouchers. Is he going to change Medicare to a voucher program?

9. Mr. Romney said if a listener was over 60, he could stop listening, because he wouldn't change Medicare for anyone over 60. Does he think voters over 60 do not care about their children and grandchildren?  Whenever someone tells you we are going to change  a program or a rule, but don't worry it won't affect you--you know he has a guilty conscience about what he is proposing.

10. Mr. Romney said the decision to send in the Seals to kill Osma Bin Laden was an easy one, that he could and would have done the same thing.  That is like saying, "Oh, I could have hit 60 home runs in a season. Anyone could have done that."  Has Mr. Romney ever made a decision that risky or dangerous?

11. Mr. Romney continues to insist all we have to do to get people back to work is to cut taxes: How is this any different from the trickle down pixie dust of the Bush years? It didn't work then and it won't work now. To get people back to work, you have to do things, not just cut taxes.

12. Mr. Romney says I passed Obama care without reaching across the aisle, without getting any Republicans on board, the way he got Democrats on board to pass Romney care. The truth is, he had to get Republicans on board to pass Romney care; it was the Democrats who delivered it. And how does any Republican say, with a straight face,  that I have not been willing to be bipartisan, when it is the leaders of the Republican Party who have said the first and only task that matters is defeating Obama, not the economy, not the welfare and safety of the American people, but the only thing that matters is to defeat President Obama. Have you ever heard the expression, "It takes two to tango?"  Bipartisanship, means you have a willing partner on each side. But Mr. Romney's party has been the party of No, the party of gridlock. I agree with one thing Mr. Romney says:  electing me would lead to gridlock, unless you elect enough Democrats to push aside these Republicannots, these obstructionists, who put party politics ahead of the good of the nation.

Keep those in mind. 
If they ask you about why the sky is blue, bring the answer back to one of these.