Maybe that Etch-A-Sketch comment was a window to what Romney really had planned.
When Eric Fehrnstrom told CNN earlier this year, “Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch-A-Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all over again,” it may not have been an unintentional blunder. It may have been a window into his campaign strategy.
Think about it. At and since the first debate, the Mittster has unveiled several new positions on health care reform and abortion, to name two. And more seem to be evolving every day. It would seem the Obama camp was caught by surprise. Maybe their mistake was expecting the Mittster to stay the same.
But maybe Mittsy's game plan from the beginning was to be vague early on, then do a complete reset to the middle and get more specific at the debate and start making a grab for the moderate voters and the undecideds. It has certainly gotten the attention of the media. And with the supposed polls shifts, it's done possibly what it's supposed to do.
Here's what the Dems need to do -- use the Bill Clinton speech formula and spell out the Romney-Ryan silliness and why the arithmetic won't work. Speaking in flowery language won't work. Specifics do.
I suspect Biden will start that tonight. Let's hope it keeps up.