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Originally Posted by Kaylore

That's pretty much it. This hearkens back to Bush nailing Kerry for "voting for" the war billl "before voting against it." It's not that Kerry was a flip-flopper, it was that they take straw polls before stuff hits the floor. Bush sold like Kerry was confused and the public bought it. Really it was just the nuances of how a bill evolves and elected officials change their positions on it depending on what is added and removed.

Romney is staying vague because there are any number of both loophols and cuts to deal with and getting into specifics gives something specific for the Obama campaign to attack. By the same token, most of that stuff gets brokered in congress anyway so even when you have an idea of specifics, the details are often worked, and re-worked as both houses get their hands on it. What happens is every sitting president, regardless of party, arms his opponent with rhetoric of "failed promises" when any specific of his plan doesn't go through - even when the overall scop of the plan was successful. Romney has decided not to play guess work with the unknowns. The problem is does that make him look like he's just paying lip-service and over-promising, or will him simplifying to overal objective avoid boredome and policy speak?

We'll see, I guess.

Well said.