Mitt Romney has made it official and is setting up the exploratory committtee to seek the Republican nomination for the presidency in 2012.
In a two minute and 30 second announcement at the link above, Mr. Romney in a understated manner lays out why he wants to be president. It is entirely devoted to the economy, nothing about foreign policy at all.
I think that Mr. Romney is going to talk a lot about the economy in the coming weeks and months. And that will put Team Obama on a constant defensive.
Not that Mitt does not have his own problems.
After all, he institued a form of Obamacare as governor of Massachussetts. He will have to continue to appeal to social conservatives and the growing Tea Party movement within the Republican party. And he will have to have an unbelievable passion for wanting to be president.
Mitt will have to overcome a party that wants someone who will fight the Dear Leader, President Obama, all the way to November, 2012. He will have to light a fire that he failed to do last time.
And, Mitt will have to fend off people that have already done that such as former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Congressman Michelle Bachmann.
It is a lofty task ahead for Mitt Romney, but he may be the right man at the right moment in American history.
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