Romney's speech falls flat in Detroit.

[Whacker77]

Seriously, who is running this campaign?

Campaigning 101, you always pick the smaller venue.

The advance man for the campaign needs to be fired.  This thing is a total train wreck of the highest order.  At least his wife has a couple of Cadillacs.

[Whacker77]

Despite all of the flops the Romney campaign produces, all I ever hear about is how good his campaign is.  Where's the proof of that?  Their strategy has been completely wrong and they haven't been able to put away the weakest field in modern times.

The campaign only seems able to do oppo research, but they can never keep their candidate from saying dumb things.  Is there anyone in the campaign who tells Romney not to go off script?  I guess not because anytime he goes off script he sticks his foot in his mouth.

[Whacker77]

You know that is a good point.

The media always plays up the fact Romney runs a "strong and well organized" campaign. And I am thinking really? I know he has boatload of cash, but the man has been running since 2007 and still has tepid support and on top of that his campaign keeps making mistakes that amateurs running at the state level don't make.

I'm not sure if it's the campaign that's the problem as much as it's Romney himself. He has an image problem to say the least. I'm starting to wonder if this guy even really stands a chance in November.

The reason I think his campaign is the problem is he's hired advisors who seem not to understand the conservative base.  Stuart Stevens, his chief strategist, is proof of that.  He's a more liberal guy and predicted the race would come down to Romney and a conservative.  Unfortunately, he thought Romney would win that fight against the conservative based on electability alone.