Obama team zeroes in on Romney

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TheHill:

President Obama’s campaign team demonstrated Wednesday who it thinks will be the Republican presidential nominee — former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.

David Axelrod, who’s in charge of keeping Obama in the White House, held a 25-minute conference call with reporters for the express purpose of targeting Romney.


It’s the first time the Obama team has held a call to specifically target a Republican presidential candidate, and it underscores the growing sense of inevitability that Romney will be the party’s nominee.
Among Axelrod’s charges against the former governor: that he’s a flip-flopper who cannot be trusted by voters.

“We’re having this call because Gov. Romney has been so brazen, frankly, in his switches of position,” Axelrod said.

Romney’s campaign shot back, accusing Obama of trying to distract voters from their most important issue — the economy.

“What we’re getting from this administration in response to the tanking economy are deflections and diversions from what really matters, which is President Obama’s failure to create jobs. President Obama has turned America into an economic disaster zone. The only question is whether we can make it to the election of 2012 before Obama takes us all the way back to 1929,” said Romney spokesman Ryan Williams in a statement.