President Obama is already whacking Mitt Romney on the stump for wanting to be the third Bush administration. Well, Romney seems to be playing right into Obama's hands by taking on a hefty number of former Bush advisers.
Ed Gillespie served as President George W. Bush’s right-hand man and now is a top political adviser to presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.
R. Glenn Hubbard and Greg Mankiwled Mr. Bush's Council of Economic Advisers. Now they are Mr. Romney’s economic brain trusts.
The same can be said for his foreign policy team, where Mr. Romney boasts a number of faces from the Bush old guard, including former CIA Director Michael V. Hayden and former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Today, they are the former Massachusetts governor’s go-to guys on counterterrorism.
Sounds like Romney's idea of "a new course" looks a lot like the same course that got us where we are now. And if a CNN/ORC poll is to be believed, it could potentially blow up in Romney's face--57 percent of those polled blame The Decider for our current economic mess.
At least one Republican strategist thinks Romney is handing Obama a huge stick to beat him over the head with.
“There are a couple of new faces, but not nearly as many as there should be,” Republican strategist Michael McKenna said. “The terrible thing is that [Mr. Romney] is helping Obama make his case: ‘Hey, we are going back to the Bush administration.’ “
Suffice to say that the ads write themselves.