Romney Update / Ominous Forecasting

The reason you pick Romney is you want a very solid, competent debater, a good governing partner, someone who’ll do what you say, and someone who can communicate on economics. — Ambinder

To wit:

Though he has an affinity for facts and figures, Romney has the ability to break down complicated economics into simple terms.

“This is not in people’s heads-this is reality. People are hurting across the country,” Romney said, rebutting Phil Gramm’s judgment that the U.S. is a “nation of whiners.”

Just so. But Gramm never should’ve been allowed to say that. Would Romney be damned on a McCain ticket to a life of Captian Obvious-style damage control? There are worse ways to lay the groundwork for a ’12 campaign. Could the world withstand four years of weak, shifting government, only to be confronted by the death warmed over of a Romney-Clinton race? From whines to whimpers…